[capableweb]

Don't think there is any way of getting the stats on where people live automatically. At most they would probably be able to get most commonly used locations, as a IP belongs to a location, but that doesn't mean that the user lives there (or even that the user is physically around there [VPNs], but probably usually right).

[hammock]

IP data would be close enough to the actual aggregate proportions

[hunter321]

Given how many people browse HN at work it would be super skewed.

[bradlys]

Correct. You'd get a lot of people who suddenly seem to live in Columbus, Ohio or other random non-tech spots within USA due to AWS VPN and other such things.

[hammock]

Let's test it