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Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? by farmerstan on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:38AM (#28156161)
You can’t delete your comments after 2 hours.
Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? by tomhoward on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:27AM (#28156771)
You can have any problematic comments anonymised or removed by emailing the hn@yc address.

By default, it's an important part of HN that comments stay up, unless they will cause problems for the poster. PG explained why, many years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226