>The data suggests that the majority of users come from the United States 41.2% is not the majority… Interesting data though, thanks for it. At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board?
> At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board? Is there a tool to check this? Personally, I don't know of any, but I saw the article in the top 15 between 10 and 14 UTC time.
Demographics of Hacker News by country
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#72Interesting that Singapore topped most of SE Asia. Gotta wonder what the spread's like across 1000 posts.
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#73Interesting that Singapore topped most of SE Asia. Gotta wonder what the spread's like across 1000 posts.
Sounds natural as they use English as a native language.
I doubt Asian people are as fluent in English as European people.
Possibly certain amount of numbers from those countries are native speakers living there.
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#74Interesting to see UK and Germany taking the 2nd and 3rd spots. Is there any easy explanation for why UK and Germany are at the next two spots? Is UK the next hotspot for IT after US? Is Germany too? What about China and India? Does it not have more IT crowd than UK or Germany? Or most of them don't visit HN? Interested in understanding these trends better.
What amount of Chinese users frequent English sites?
Do they have Chinese equivalent of HN?
Also I wonder how many percentage of Chinese are capable of sufficiently understanding English to frequent English sites.
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#75I asked GTP-4 to recalculate the data based on the population of the countries: I did the sorting in Apple Numbers and somehow it botched the percentages. E.g. Iceland (291%) is actually 0.291% but I have no idea how to fix that. And I have to leave now. Sorry. --- Iceland 291 % Switzerland 229 % Malta 200 % Sweden 174 % Ireland 168 % Luxembourg 160 % Denmark 156 % New Zealand 156 % Norway 153 % Estonia 151 % Netherl…
It got at least NZ very wrong.
I'm afraid people are going to start posting information from all the AI tools without human checks for accuracy and pretend they're useful in discussions.
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#76There's also a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 41.2% is not the majority… Yes it is if all other numbers are smaller.
No. Majority is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
They are both majorities, except one is absolute (more than 50%) and the other one isn't (more than anyone else, but not over 50%).
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board? Is there a tool to check this? Personally, I don't know of any, but I saw the article in the top 15 between 10 and 14 UTC time.
https://hnrankings.info/35553421/
Thank you dang!