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Ask HN: Who Uses Hacker News?
I'm wondering who the types of people are that view/use HN on a daily basis?
My names's Tim, I'm a product designer that also enjoys front-end web development (HTML, CSS, JS, Svelte, React).
edit: If there are other posts related to this question, I'd really appreciate people sharing them here as well? thanks.
- mindcrime 5y agoIt's pretty much just me, you, and about 73,244 bots. And I have my doubts about you, now that I think about it.
- tp91 5y agoHaha I can assure you that I am not a bot, although I'm sure that's exactly what a bot would be trained to say? I tried finding previous posts related to who the user base of HN is, but had no luck so I thought I'd ask the question myself.
- unearth3d 5y agoI'm Nigel an NZ Industrial and agricultural landscape architect and ecologist. I came to HN to learn more about CLI, perl and text manipulation and found some interesting people and sub-communities outside of tech.
- tuatoru 5y agoThe kind of people that use Firefox with noscript and/or uBlock Origin, privacy badger, and similar. Edit: And/or w3m and/or links or lynx.
- earpwald 5y agoI'm a software developer and I come to HN to keep up with new ideas and trends etc. Often see things on here days before it becomes a thing on news outlets. Generally I like to skim through articles and see whats relevant etc.
- rattlesnake45 5y agouniversity student in the US studying economics. Just keep up to date.