It may be amongst them, but do not discount other organizations with a similar pedigree merely because they're not American. Financial Times, The Economist, and so on.

At any rate, this article is an opinion piece along with plenty of other NYTimes articles posted to Hacker News. When judging an opinion piece the the pedigree and reputability of the newspaper matters much less.

That is true but HN is overwhelming an American readership, which is obvious to non-Americans or anyone who lives outside of the US timezones.

Which isn't too surprising, all things considered, it just is what it is.

But given all too human "familiarity bias", it also isn't surprising that an American readership submits & upvotes primarily American sources.

Tangential, but I would be very interested in a census of HN. Does anyone know if this has been done?

Except for that time they weren't! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair