> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
That user is a routine political agitator that I've directly emailed HN about in the past, mainly due to repeated invective of the "everyone I don't like is a fascist" variety. Recent comments include less-than-insightful takes like "Hard to work on your next startup when the gestapo is kicking down your door and abducting your neighbors." and "Get back to me when white people are an impoverished, discriminated, and brutally repressed minority coming from a history of chattel slavery, not the overwhelmingly dominant cultural and political force in the country."
I mean, I’m still a real person. I’d love to post about my latest software widget or technical article like in the before times, but admittedly I’ve got other things on my mind these days. Like: as a resident of a Blue sanctuary city, what choice words I’m going to use with ICE if they come to break down my door. How much I should bite my tongue on social media as a naturalized immigrant. Fun stuff like that.
No great loss if I get kicked off the site, but for what it’s worth, my karma is net positive so far. I guess there are still enough others here who are apoplectically furious at our rapidly degenerating society.
And lest we forget: hacking is intrinsically a political act, anti-authoritarian by nature, though I understand that there are scant few actual hackers here these days.
Orphaning and making new HN accounts every year to ensure anonymity is not against the rules.