alt Hacker NewsDo you have a source for that? I'm likely the same age as you are and I usually feel like people on HN don't swing that widely away from our age group, but based on vibes alone I would have put the median HN poster closer to 25-30 than to 50.
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alephnerd • today at 1:10 AM
> Do you have a source for that
Obviously not. HN is an anonymous forum that doesn't collect that kind of data. But given the fact that a large portion of childhood and early 20s references on HN tend to discuss life in the 1980s-2000s and don't reference the Great Recession highlights a large portion of HNers would have been born in the late 70s to at most early 90s.
In 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63294 the median age was 25.5 and mean 27.3. In 2022 (15 years later) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30897468 the median age using midpoints was between 35.44 and mean age was 37.22. If we presume that older folks tend to not answer these (so polls skew young), then I think it's safe to say young-Gen-X to older-millenial is the core demographic here.