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by bee_rider 58 days ago
It seems predictable that people on a mostly English-speaking forum will be most concerned with stuff that the US and UK are doing.
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alephnerd 58 days ago
Most HN users aren't even posting during Anglophone hours though [0]. Based on the style of English as well as the type of post content, HN engagement seems to be increasingly filled with DACH and CEE residents during American mornings (which is ironic as YC doesn't follow GDPR and retains full rights to use HN comments as they so wish in perpetuity).

[0] - https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news

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JumpCrisscross 58 days ago
> during Anglophone hours though

I suspect I mostly post outside American working hours because I am (a) working then and (b) a night owl.

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alephnerd 58 days ago
Maybe, but most HNers didn't work in high finance which messes with your sleep cycle :').

I'm still processing the dataset but there is a significant shift in HN usage from aligning with average American hours to non-American hours over the past few years.

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