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A comment on Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by duck on Friday August 08, 2014 @01:03PM (#8153860)
It is pretty easy to find the YC company if you just look at his comment history and do a search or two. Which... is why you should aways use a throwaway account if you don't want people to figure this stuff out.
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Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by swombat on Friday August 08, 2014 @02:45PM (#8154416)
Actually he has no comments outside of this thread that is less than 91 days ago, so it's not so easy at all.
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Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by duck on Sunday August 10, 2014 @02:26PM (#8160306)
As justguessingbut suggested, you can find a domain name from project he worked on, and thus his real name, and from there a search will lead you to angel list which links everything together with dates that match with the op's story. I was able to do it all in less than 5 minutes without anything but a browser and I'm slow... so I would call that really easy.
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Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by justguessingbut on Friday August 08, 2014 @02:49PM (#8154433)
Look at his startup idea that's hosted on appspot.com - the route to the YC company is found easily from there, with a couple of creative web searches.
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