From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News : "Hacker News (HN) is a social news website"

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_news_website : "A social news website is a website that features user-posted stories. Such stories are ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators."

The article was recently published, users on HN submitted the article. Other users thought it interesting and upvoted. Earth has different time zones (I understand it's difficult for americans to grasp) and so different people are active at different times.

It's 8 hours from time of post no? So timezones don't really affect anything here or am I missing something?