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> Where are you at home and who do you work for?

In my office :) Southern Europe if that's the question, and I work for myself, contractor/freelancer jumping between existing relationships and kickstarting new startups trying to find product-market fit.

Never visited the US, never had any plans to visit the US and don't have any relationships with anyone/anything from the West coast in the US, FWIW.

I'm here because HN is filled with interesting people from all over the world, even encountered a childhood (programming) hero once or twice and managed to get questions answered. The wide range of people is why I keep coming back after almost two decades of being here.

I mostly use https://news.ycombinator.com/active as a "frontpage", it's sorted by most active discussions rather than "trending upvotes", as I'm mainly here to read and write comments, rather than finding new articles. I think using any of the other "lists" as a frontpage might give you a different impression, because I certainly feel like HN is more "Pro BigTech" than any other websites, if anything I'd probably say the opposite, but probably the truth sits somewhere along the middle.