[neo4llm]

Psychoanalysis? No

Threat analysis? Maybe

HN has value larger than for just for the community of people commenting here. It is also used as a platform for YC companies. YC Founders can even see each others usernames in orange color[1].

A spamming actor could also be testing the limits of the system now for a future attack. Anyway, this is the job an Infosec team usually deals with. Hopefully @dang / HN team has access to people with such skillset.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968246

[thomassmith65]

  Threat analysis?

Fair enough.

It's probably as simple as 'Dan handles moderation and he's asleep'