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looks like it can indeed
> Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
How surprising that someone might object to being included in a demonstration of the erosion of privacy!
Is the site opt-in or opt-out?
Very nice clean site, great work.
Why are some users bold?
Say you see user2 listed in bold on user1's page. That means that user1 is also in user2's top 20 users. In my experience it is often an indicator of a good match (but not always). I should probably explain that on the site.
Ha, gruseom shows up for pg, which is dang’s old account. A worthy successor. This is a fascinating way to find similar HN users who aren’t the same person. It’s a surprisingly great recommendation engine. “If you like pg, you might also like…” Sure, the privacy concerns are valid, but the cat’s out of the boot. Might as well enjoy the benefits. montrose is almost definitely pg. Someone who talks about ancient histor…
I think these are all common topics among HN readers and commenters.
at what threshold is it considering alt account?
What does the bold signify? For example when I search for dang ( https://stylometry.net/user?username=dang ) the 4th most likely user is not bold whereas the 16th is?
Say you see user2 listed in bold on user1's page. That means that user1 is also in user2's top 20 users. In my experience it is often an indicator of a good match (but not always).
The scary thing is that once you have this data, finding HN matches for individual targeted users on other sites becomes trivial, even if those sites are harder to scrape. I bet most people here have an anonymous Reddit account, for example. If you wanted to know who was behind a particular Reddit account, you could feed it into something like this and compare the results with HN, where accounts are less likely to be…