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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by wizzwizz4 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @05:06PM (#33757287)
Why use John? Just run down the list of Hacker News usernames; it'll take less time. (Or, better still, don't; just because the privacy's theoretically compromised doesn't mean we have to exploit that.)
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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by lzooz on Saturday November 26, 2022 @05:22PM (#33757440)
I don't think there's a public list of all HN usernames is there?

Found this, it includes 250k usernames, but it's not there. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hacker-news/hacker-news-corp...

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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by meta2023 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @05:44PM (#33757627)
The username in question isn't in this dataset but maybe it was created in the past 10 days, as the max(timestamp) is Nov 16th, 2022.

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...

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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by lzooz on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:34PM (#33758121)
It isn't there, and given the "story" it happened years ago so it should be there, so I guess we've been played.
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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by phreeza on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:23AM (#33761146)
Unintentionally played I might add... But I will leave it at that.
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