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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by neo4llm on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:05AM (#43443398)
Psychoanalysis? No

Threat analysis? Maybe

HN has value larger than for just for the community of people commenting here. It is also used as a platform for YC companies. YC Founders can even see each others usernames in orange color[1].

A spamming actor could also be testing the limits of the system now for a future attack. Anyway, this is the job an Infosec team usually deals with. Hopefully @dang / HN team has access to people with such skillset.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968246

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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by thomassmith65 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:08AM (#43443418) 

  Threat analysis?
Fair enough.

It's probably as simple as 'Dan handles moderation and he's asleep'

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