[naetius]

Does it?

May it be that HN is more or less known among tech workers in country “X” (eg: due to language, etc…)?

[agopaul]

Sure, you can even say that both France and Germany just have larger populations than Italy. But still I would argue that being open to the international tech scene is pretty important to have a local tech scene. It's also crucial to keep up with innovation.

[naetius]

Would you say that consuming HN is some sort of "benchmark" that measures how open a society is to the tech scene?