Dang told me in 2019 that HN gets 150M page views a month, so it's not that obscure actually:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201120

150m page views a month is peanuts and very far away from the "social" networks numbers. I don't have those numbers, but I know how many page views we had 2011 while running a german browser game community.

	▲	armchairhacker 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The internet seems to have grown massively within the past couple years (unfortunately, almost certainly because of bots). I bet the number today is orders of magnitude higher.