Ask HN: How opiniated Is HN?

You asked this question at a time when Europeans are just getting up to go to work, and most SV folks are fast asleep. I would not expect responses to reflect an unbiased sample.

I’ve also noticed marked differences in average sentiment across the course of the day, which likely also reflects time zone effects.

>I am long time lurker here and recently I got fed up of the overall pro BigTech sentiment.

That's just like your opinion man.

> 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.

IIRC, from some old post, 60% USA, 30% Europe, 10% Rest of the world. [Hi from Argentina!]

There are, yes. I'm among them. But we are not really the target audience, we're just in an overlap in the Venn diagram.