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by greyb3 hours ago |
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upvoteby r3trohack3r2 hours ago|
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> HN hasn't been Bay Area centric in years.

>> HN remains very US-centric

Bay Area != US

The Bay Area is its own microcosm of culture and philosophy that diverges significantly from much of the US.

Not making a statement on how prevalent either are on HN, but Bay Area is very much not equivalent to the US.

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upvoteby MBCook2 hours ago|
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As an American, it’s extremely Silicon Valley centric, at least in mindset.

Extremely. The valley/startup lens is absolutely the dominant one.

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upvoteby weinzierl2 hours ago|
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As someone from the DACH region I very much agree with this. I don't see a shift from typical US opinions to opinions often held in the DACH region. Not at all.
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upvoteby alephnerd3 hours ago|
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> I honestly do not get this at all. HN remains very US-centric to me, and apart from some takes on tech rights, does not really remind me of my experience in DACH.

The majority of HN's usership, posting, and comment activity occurs during peak EU work hours (3am-9am), stylistic patterns that are common for German-, French, and Polish-native speakers are increasingly prominent (eg. periods and spaces instead of commas in numbers, spacing between quotation marks and words, failing to use context clues to infer timezone), and the fact that IRL conversation topics in the Bay Area tech scene are entirely different from those on HN shows a massive divergence in userbase.

HN "Who wants to get hired" threads are a good example of that as well.

I'd recommend deep diving in the HN scrape dataset on HuggingFace [0]. The site has diverged heavily compared to 2018 or 2012.

[0] - https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news

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upvoteby Avicebron2 hours ago|
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How would you say the "IRL conversation topics in the Bay Area tech scene" diverge from HN?
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upvoteby AlotOfReading34 minutes ago|
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Haven't seen anyone sending partiful invites here.
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upvoteby snowpid2 hours ago|
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While I appreciated your source 1.) I doubt 99% of Europeans work during 3am - 9am 2.) At least there can be other reasons: 2a.) EU times and African times are basically the same and Africa has a huge population. 2b.) India is closer timewise to EU/African time zones 2c.) What are about posts afterworks?

" RL conversation topics in the Bay Area tech scene are entirely different from those on HN shows a massive divergence in userbase. " Any proof?

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upvoteby kelnos46 minutes ago|
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I assume the 3am-9am figure was in US Pacific time, in order to emphasize the difference from the working hours of people on the US west coast.
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