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Re:Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username acr... by sangnoir on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:02PM (#42512093)
> The secret is multiple accounts.

There was a "show hn" many months ago that did stylometry on HN commenters to show which accounts were most stylistically similar; I ran a throwaway account of mine through it, and it showed my account in the top 3 - which was impressive.

Having multiple accounts won't save you when your own word choice, grammar and style can uniquely identify you to anyone sufficiently motivated to link your disparate identities at any point in the future. The author even said their tool was rather basic; IIRC the basis was all pairs similarity on n-grams

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Re:Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username acr... by malfist on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:49PM (#42512335)
You wouldn't happen to have a link to that would you? I'd really like to check that out
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Re:Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username acr... by sangnoir on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:57PM (#42512366)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

I can't get the site to load

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