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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by throwboi123 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:52PM (#33756609)
That’s why I always use throwaway :) everywhere. Reddit. HN. Twitter. Everywhere. I’ll spam every site with my throwaways.

Long live throwaways.

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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by kaba0 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @05:38PM (#33757570)
That’s the point of this post, that you are not safe by throwaways at all, because all of your throwaways can be linked together purely by your textual style.
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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by SpelingBeeChamp on Saturday November 26, 2022 @09:45PM (#33759657)
No they can’t. If you only have a small amount of text to work with, stylometry is unreliable.
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