Ask HN: How many vetted users does Hacker News have now?

I meant haven’t. There are accounts whose last comments were 7-8 years ago. Technically those shouldn’t count as the active users. Also lots of users have a few handles or use throwaways for certain delicate subjects. Should those count as well? I guess it’d be hard to come up with a correct number even for HN

It's not only the comments I think to mark favorites or support a post is also activity

I guess you could walk the stories API, extract all the user IDs, and then enum those through the users API to get the Karma values, and then run stats on that... it's a big effort, and I'm not sure what the useful payoff would be.

Quite a bit older than that! I joined the day it became public, 12.5 years ago.