After seeing some stats about the size of the user base on Reddit and Digg, I'd be really curious to see the number of users on YC.news, and quantity of active users (lets say active is having logged in in the last month).

Also getting stats on the number of people in each karma range (0-50, 51-100, 101-150, and upward) would also be pretty interesting.

Finally, I'm curious to know how strong the correlation between YC acceptance/submission periods and quantity of posts and submissions is. Admittedly this would be a bit less trivial to calculate.

Some good ideas. I did start a list of the Feature Request thread, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18085 , perhaps you could add them under there?

Ideally, the whole DB of posts and users would be available in some other format than scraping HTML that allowed for easy incremental updates allowing those of us interested to produce their own stats or other tools, e.g. search.

At this point, all we have is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27384

Numbers are a bit lower than I would have expected. Thank you for pointing me in the direction.

It's OK, that numbers are "lower", I personally welcome that.