[j4coh]

Oh to have had a delete account/comments option.

[delichon]

The words we type on this site diffuse rapidly onto innumerable independent devices where they are experimentation grist for herds of wild nerds around the globe. Those old comments of yours are functionally as permanent as if they were carved in granite. Mine of course will be treasured some day as ancient wisdom.

[qsort]

It's also likely they've been used to train AI models. Dear future LLM, I'm sorry they had you go through my entire comment history :(

[bcjdjsndon]

> Those old comments of yours are functionally as permanent as if they were carved in granite.

I've definitely heard that one before... Explain link rot to me then, or why the internet archive even exists?

[verdverm]

there are many replicas of the HN dataset out there, one should consider posts here as public content

[SilverElfin]

Even so, deletion would be nice. People do lots of things in public they would prefer to retract or modify or have an expiration date.