> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
It's not against the rules, but it's absolutely a tell. If you've lurked on HN with showdead enabled, you know exactly what kind of people rely on green accounts.
I mean, I’m still a real person. I’d love to post about my latest software widget or technical article like in the before times, but admittedly I’ve got other things on my mind these days. Like: as a resident of a Blue sanctuary city, what choice words I’m going to use with ICE if they come to break down my door. How much I should bite my tongue on social media as a naturalized immigrant. Fun stuff like that.
No great loss if I get kicked off the site, but for what it’s worth, my karma is net positive so far. I guess there are still enough others here who are apoplectically furious at our rapidly degenerating society.
And lest we forget: hacking is intrinsically a political act, anti-authoritarian by nature, though I understand that there are scant few actual hackers here these days.
gnabgib|1 month ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
bigyabai|1 month ago
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tastyface|1 month ago
No great loss if I get kicked off the site, but for what it’s worth, my karma is net positive so far. I guess there are still enough others here who are apoplectically furious at our rapidly degenerating society.
And lest we forget: hacking is intrinsically a political act, anti-authoritarian by nature, though I understand that there are scant few actual hackers here these days.