On: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

[1024core]

I wonder how much of the HN readership was not even born then....?

[codetrotter → 1024core]

Probably a decent number. I first heard of HN around 2010 when I was in university.

I assume that plenty of university students find their way to HN still. And that many of them will have been born around the mid-2000’s.

I only barely make the cut myself to having been born a few years before 1993.

[tkgally → codetrotter]

One of the nice things about HN is the wide age range of the participants. I have read interesting and thoughtful comments from people who said they were high school students all the way through to people a decade or more older than me (I'm sixty-seven).

[dbl000 → codetrotter]

Can confirm. Recent graduate who found HN during my second year at university.

[dang → dbl000]

That's good! Do your friends know about / use HN?

(Sorry for conscripting you as a guinea pig but it's hard to get this kind of info!)

[sureglymop → dang]

Person born in 2000 here. My friends and colleagues at university generally don't know about HN.

Have told a few people about it but the only person I really converted into also becoming a regular reader is my dad. It's good because now whenever we see each other we have a lot of topics and stuff to discuss that we both read about here.

[pvg → sureglymop]

HN is officially a dad site now.

[ubermonkey → 1024core]

OTOH, I first read the article when it ran in 1993.