By the way I don't think people who read HN are in the top 5% - think of Facebook's 500 MILLION (!) users. Saying that the people who read HN are in the 0.1% gr

By the way I don't think people who read HN are in the top 5% - think of Facebook's 500 MILLION (!) users. Saying that the people who read HN are in the 0.1% group of computer users would still be optimistic, IMO. The time when geeks were 5% of the web is a very long time ago - 2000-ish, maybe?