[thatguysaguy]

Maybe I missed something, but I see little evidence that there is a concerning ability to deanonymize. Many people post under a pseudonym but then link to their GitHub etc. In fact by construction the HN dataset _only_ consists of people who are comfortable with their real identity being linked to it.

The real question is whether someone who is pseudonymous and actually attempting to remain so can be deanonymized.

[matheusmoreira]

> The real question is whether someone who is pseudonymous and actually attempting to remain so can be deanonymized.

They can. That's the point. This site serves as a dataset against which pseudonymous posts can be evaluated.