Unfortunately, I think your results will be heavily skewed in a place like Hacker News, which may or may not be what you want.

So far, half of the replies are about DuckDuckGo, which doesn't even account for 0.1% of all searches globally.

Personally, I've switched to DDG about 2 weeks ago and it's been pretty much seamless. This depends mostly on what I search for; if it's something very specific, Google will provide better results. However, a lot of the time I simply search for standalone topics that do not require a lot of context, like 'Japan GDP' or 'blue shark'. In these cases, DDG is just as good as Google, given that you simply open the first result anyway.

I'd love to see more people switch to DDG, but most people simply don't care or are not tech savvy enough to understand how much tracking Google does.