As someone who intends to post several different future endeavours to HN for fun and professional reasons, I’ve been collecting info like this (from other people who did the hard work) for a while now… and I’d be curious if a meta-analysis revealed any long term trends and potential contrarian behaviour trends after posting each stats analysis as people for reasons ranging from desire to maintain fairness to a general hacker tendency to be a little defiant at being profiled, but regardless of the cause I can imagine the HN crowd would be self aware enough to push back on a trend slightly… just case. But as it’s grown in size I suspect this trend has likely gotten smaller as the total user base becomes more and more statistically representative.