You are (maybe) joking, but I’d guess there’s an extremely high overlap between HN users and Kagi users. I converted someone from a metal discord I’m in to Kagi with a promo gift last year, and he’s also the only HN user on the server ;)

“Many a true word is spoken in jest.”

;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_a_true_word_is_spoken_in_...

IIRC, nerds were the primary drivers of the search engine wars.