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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by daheza on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:39PM (#47057228)
I worry that the focus on AI proofing will lead to a deanonymization of the internet. If we force every interaction to be associated with a real world id, we can kill a lot of the bots.
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @07:31AM (#47060308)
> deanonymization of the internet

This is going to happen anyway because 'the powerful' want to track what everyone does and says. AI is going to accelerate this because now they have a much more efficient means to filter and identify the people that are doing and saying things that the powerful don't like. The powerful will also be able to get real world ID credentials for their bots if they wanted or needed them, so this will not stop the problem of bots.

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