How so? I accept stories about time capsules from any location. Just below is a comment from Holland. Less weird?
Americans probably make up a larger portion of HN visitors (especially in the currently awake time zone), and it is also a very big country, so stories from there are more likely overall.
Why is that weird? HN is a global community, and antiques are something that exist pretty much everywhere on Earth, people who are interested in them also exist pretty much everywhere on Earth. It's hard to even think of a more universal and culture spanning topic than antiques. I would think it a lot more weird if only people from the UK cared and commented about TFA.
Nevertheless, if you think it's wrong and only people from the UK should read and/or comment about a story from the UK, how do we accomplish that? Should we start putting country code tags on all of the posts, so that way only people from specific countries read and comment on them?
When I was a teenager, my curiosity led me to do urban exploring, so I felt a lot more pulled in by freedomben's story than the one about cordless phones. If there were photos, it'd definitely be blog post worthy. Although that might spoil the visuals my imagination has already created. For example, I remember visiting Pleasure Beach and exploring all the dollhouses in that ghost town which was abandoned when the bridge burned down. I remember feeling so afraid when I discovered that one guy was still living there, just sitting back and forth in his rocking chair. I also think Bridgeport, having so long been a beacon of American values, teaches us what we can expect from America in the future once more critical infrastructure breaks down.
It is weird that there is still no obvious comments about abundance of such objects in Japan (with fan community around them), or from even bigger “urban exploration” crowd.
Is it weird? HN's largest audience is American. The next largest is probably Europe. I'd be surprised if the percentage of Japanese users on HN was high enough to break into the single digit range.
Edit: My assumption seems close, Japan is at 1% based on this. I'm surprised.
