dredmorbius, 11 months ago

HN Front Page / Global Cities Mentions

One question I've had about HN is how well or poorly it represents non-US (or even non-Silicon Valley) viewpoints and issues.

Pulling from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network list, the top 50 global cities names appearing in HN front-page titles:

  1   191  San Francisco<br></br>  2   164  London<br></br>  3   117  Boston<br></br>  4    86  Seattle<br></br>  5    60  Tokyo<br></br>  6    58  Paris<br></br>  7    56  Chicago<br></br>  8    56  Hong Kong<br></br>  9    55  New York City<br></br> 10    50  Berlin<br></br> 11    50  Phoenix<br></br> 12    45  Rome<br></br> 13    40  Detroit<br></br> 14    36  Singapore<br></br> 15    31  Vancouver<br></br> 16    30  Los Angeles<br></br> 17    27  Austin<br></br> 18    23  Beijing<br></br> 19    20  Dubai<br></br> 20    19  Shenzhen<br></br> 21    19  Toronto<br></br> 22    17  Amsterdam<br></br> 23    16  Copenhagen<br></br> 24    16  Houston<br></br> 25    16  Moscow<br></br> 26    15  Atlanta<br></br> 27    14  Barcelona<br></br> 28    14  Denver<br></br> 29    13  Baltimore<br></br> 30    13  San Jose<br></br> 31    13  Stockholm<br></br> 32    12  San Diego<br></br> 33    12  Sydney<br></br> 34    11  Cairo<br></br> 35    10  Munich<br></br> 36    10  Wuhan<br></br> 37     9  Helsinki<br></br> 38     9  Miami<br></br> 39     9  Mumbai<br></br> 40     9  Philadelphia<br></br> 41     9  Shanghai<br></br> 42     9  Vienna<br></br> 43     8  Montreal<br></br> 44     7  Beirut<br></br> 45     7  Dublin<br></br> 46     7  Istanbul<br></br> 47     6  Bangalore<br></br> 48     6  Dallas<br></br> 49     6  Kansas City<br></br> 50     6  Minneapolis<br></br>

(Best viewed in original on toot.cat.)

Note that some idiosyncrasies affect this, e.g., "New York City" appears rarely, whilst "New York" may refer to the city, state, any of several newspapers, universities, etc. "New York" appears 315 times in titles (mostly as "New York Times").

I've independently verified that, for example, "Ho Chi Minh City" doesn't appear, though "Ho Chi Minh" alone does:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15374051, on the 2017-9-30 front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-09-30

So apply salt liberally.

Edits: tyops & speling.

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