boiling it down, what would you say is the link between most common HNers?

Internet access.

+ unfufilled at work, too curious, better than their peers on the job.

Strikingly handsome, charming, physique like a Greek god...

I love my job :-) and HN makes me better at it (new tech, psychology, understanding organizations, society...)

I suspect this speaks far more about you than the readership here...

Reductio ad absurdum

Its levisoSAH not leviooosa

Joke's on you, I'm posting this from the console!

Even if HN mostly consists of people engaged in building or maintaining technology, technology is in every industry, so the discussion can credibly touch nearly every topic with some interesting depth.

Curiosity.

'what if'

Taking the question literally? People who believe democracy makes correct choices.

The description I usually go with is "The worst form of government, except for all the others".

What? What makes you think that

What you see on the front page, and at the top of the comment section, is a result of direct democracy deciding what is worth reading.

So Dang is the deep state?

Desire for quality news

And an informed diverse discussion of that news.

Desire for widening one's views? For understanding the world?

Open-mindedness

They read HN.

Nit: the idiom is "large swath"

Swathe not swath

I'm not sure: https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/swath-swathe.php

An appreciation for hypotheticals?