News.YC trends
I created Y2 Combinator last year in response to the Y Combinator clones springing up around the world. It reached the top of News.YC twice—back in April of 2007, when it launched, and then again, randomly, today.
The browser data from these two events, 10 months apart, give an interesting picture of how the operating system and browser habits of Hacker News readers, and therefore some segment of the startup/programming community, have changed. The figures:
- Linux usage is down! (From 14.8% to 13.2%)
- Mac OS X is up 29% (from 26.1% to 33.6%)
- Internet Explorer use is down 34%
- Safari is up 48%, which suggests that many erstwhile Firefox-on-OS-X users have reverted to Safari