Huh. Of all my old blog posts, this is the last one I expected to randomly resurface at the top of Hacker News.
There were a lot of other articles made using this 10M Password dataset at the time it was originally released, which the dataset author aggregated into a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/10millionpasswords/). WPEngine, for example, has a much more comprehensive writeup with ad-hoc looks at specific passwords (http://wpengine.com/unmasked/).
The site is static, hosted on GitHub Pages and generated via Jekyll, backed by Cloudflare for extra HN-proofing.
As of this comment, there are 150-170 concurrent users on the site, with about 120 of them (~80%) from HN. Although I do have the data, I am hesitant to do a write up since I would need to correlate traffic to the rank of a submission on HN, which I do not have in retrospect. (For example, a post at #1 can get 300 concurrent users while this post at #3 only 150. Posts in #20-30 are lucky to get 50 concurrents. For further reference, note that Reddit posts which hit the front page of a default like /r/dataisbeautiful can get 1,000 concurrents.)
EDIT: When this post dropped to #4, traffic immediately dropped to 100-110 concurrents.
Man, you have to do a post about traffic patterns to your website with whatever data you have, it's way too interesting. Leave out the rank correlation part, and share whatever data you have available. Please!
My 2013 post "Which Universities Produce the Most Successful Startup Founders?" is one of my posts which received the most notority at the time: http://minimaxir.com/2013/07/alma-mater-data/
However, there are a number of data fidelity issues which would get me teared apart in the HN comments nowadays.
There were a lot of other articles made using this 10M Password dataset at the time it was originally released, which the dataset author aggregated into a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/10millionpasswords/). WPEngine, for example, has a much more comprehensive writeup with ad-hoc looks at specific passwords (http://wpengine.com/unmasked/).