Re:Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
by dang on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:20PM
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Mods have never shared an account - that never felt right to me. But Tom was working on HN for years before he started posting publicly as a mod. That change happened with the announcement you linked to.
They used to share one account.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671