Ask HN: What’s the gender distribution of HN?

Mostly men with a large margin between the genders. That's probably the most accurate answer you're going to get out of this. Looking at some tech surveys like stackoverflow for example, the ratio is roughly 10:1. You could argue about HN demographics being slightly different for some reason but that would be just guesswork.

Re: Ask HN: What’s the gender distribution of HN?

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Post by st1x7 » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

theossuary wrote: post #5

desertraven wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need at least 200 karma!

Created a poll, hopefully we can get an accurate representation. I'm guessing it's at least 75% men https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551382

Very low estimate. I would be surprised if the actual number is less than 90% men.

Re: Ask HN: What’s the gender distribution of HN?

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Post by ptm » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

We can check the gender ratio [1] of the subreddit /r/hackernews (assuming the two have the same audience distribution). Unfortunately, the subreddit does not appear on the gender ratio page.

[1] http://bburky.com/subredditgenderratios/

If you check related subreddits,

/r/startups - 86:14

/r/sideproject - 91:9

/r/programming - 93:7

/r/webdev - 89:11

/r/cscareerquestions - 83:17

/r/netsec - 96:4

/r/technology - 85:15

Based on these numbers 10:1 seems like a good guess.

Re: Ask HN: What’s the gender distribution of HN?

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Post by s_gangopadhyay » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 1:51 AM UTC

This is kind of an insensitive question. A decent chunk of us are non-binary, and somewhere in between.

Re: Ask HN: What’s the gender distribution of HN?

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Post by kleer001 » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 3:28 AM UTC

s_gangopadhyay wrote: post #9

This is kind of an insensitive question. A decent chunk of us are non-binary, and somewhere in between.

This is kind of a bigoteering comment. Good faith interpretation of OP's question includes any and all possible sexual gender identities.