Maybe hackernews has older crowd. Windows was the defacto developer OS for a very long time.
Even the HN dataset on HuggingFace shows that most engagement on HN is now during non-US hours [0] and drops off as Europe goes to sleep.
[0] - https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news
Well, the EU is putting the kibosh on that PDQ. The precious stays at home.