[brynjolf]

I also think HN usually come from the same background with predominantly comments from California USA or USA in general.

Compare any topic relating to capatilism, the plights of the low income classes or politics in general. I often amuse myself comparing the takes between the two sites relating it those topics.

Also HN is more clinical, it discussed the death of Swedish reporter like it was a cold case ready to be ripped through.

And also more easily distracted by seemingly innocent open questions like in politics for example "Why is it X job to care about this?" since you can't dismiss it with a short meme it creates discussion that the OP only wanted to distract from the original article.

Apart from that HN discourse is 100% better than reddit and I agree with you in some terms.