Comment by bschmidt1
Confirms my suspicion that the most active HN users are in Canada/East Coast/Europe.
When I first discovered HN I thought it was a small Stanford thing, but over time realized it's mostly a Canada/Europe crowd (even most of the YC founders that come to San Francisco for their startup are from those places).
I suspect the current situation is mostly due to timezones and as the west coast wakes up we‘ll see more cities appear there. It’ll probably take a few days until you can deduce anything about hn-users in general from that map.
And thanks for the comment - made me look outside my immediate surroundings on the map!