HN has a lot of international members from all over the world. I can confirm this using Google Analytics from the few times my articles made it to the front page and I got hit with thousands and thousands of visitors. They're from all over the place, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America.
The USA is still the biggest chunk of my traffic. When my last article got on HN's front page, I got hit with 29,000 unique visitors in 24 hours. 14,000 of them where from the USA, the rest are from all over the world.
The USA is still the biggest chunk of my traffic. When my last article got on HN's front page, I got hit with 29,000 unique visitors in 24 hours. 14,000 of them where from the USA, the rest are from all over the world.
So who knew? HN is a very global community.