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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by birdyrooster on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:45PM (#33756545)
Really it will just make it easy for script kiddies to unmask people bc the dataset is old and has currently randomized usernames unrandomized. I don’t know what @dang thinks about it, but it’s blatantly an attack on our community. It lets any moron use this curated and lengthy dataset against us where they otherwise wouldn’t. I really am not a fan of the OP. If he rescraped periodically to check for renamed accounts I wouldn’t care, but this tool is clearly meant to defeat peoples privacy in a non-trivial way. It’s not a demo, it is the attack. Someone wants us unmasked and some useful idiot wrote the program.
Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by UncleEntity on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:55PM (#33757195)
You know everyone going to put your username in that tool after a rant like that.

If ever there were a good use for a throwaway account I’m thinking this is it…