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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:12PM (#34034725)
Likely. I can't find it now, but there was an HN story not long ago where someone used fairly rudimentary techniques to identify former/alt HN accounts based on stylometric similarity. It worked VERY well.

If I were going to post from a throwaway account for some reason, I would probably launder it through an intermediate language on Google Translate for one or two cycles. Otherwise, if I didn't bother with that, I'd certainly scatter some intentional errors here and there that I don't usually make.

Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by forgotpwd16 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:54AM (#34036869)
>there was an HN story not long ago where someone used fairly rudimentary techniques to identify former/alt HN accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016