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1. dang+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-01-15 06:43:58
> HN is an American website hosted on American servers catering to Americans

That's not accurate. HN is an American website hosted on American servers catering to everybody. The only prerequisite is intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Intellectual curiosity exists everywhere, HN's userbase is 50% outside the US, and at least 90% outside of Silicon Valley. That's important for people to understand.

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2. ayewo+Nc[view] [source] 2021-01-15 08:59:24
>>dang+(OP)
If you have a moment, it would be nice if you could add the high level demographics of HN's readership to a section of the website.

Meanwhile, I've tried to see if this bit of info can be added to the HN repo maintained by Max Wolf.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...

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3. dang+Ta3[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-01-16 04:16:21
>>ayewo+Nc
That's not a bad idea. All Max would need to do is add a link to one of the comments where I posted this data. But I should probably run the numbers again - it must be 3 years old by now, if not 4.
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