Can be your HN username or a username for a different site.
Example: SMUSH is a common acronym for Super SMaSH bros Ultimate and I happened to purchase that game the same day I created a fresh HN account.
Ask HN: What did you name your username after?
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#2N-gate.com
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#3Guess.
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#4Based on a name I made up for a character in a story I was writing many, many years ago. The name just stuck with me.
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#5Guess.
Der Spiegel but attached to a trijet airplane?
I have no idea.
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#7SSMSHU? SMUltimateaSH Somehow this one is lost on me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
It's not a perfect acronym. I didn't come up with it either, but for some reason the games have had the following shortened forms:
Super Smash Bros. -> SSB or SB64 Super Smash Bros. Melee -> SSBM OR SMMSH Super Smash Bros. Brawl -> SSBB OR SMBSH (pronounced sm-bush) Super Smash Bros. for 3DS / for Wii U -> SM4SH (the 4th Smash Bros game) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -> SMUSH
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#8The Newspeak phrase "Double Plus Good Duckspeaker" from George Orwell's 1984.
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#9After my personal blog.
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#10The origin is a long story, but I've been using it online for 30 years.