Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
631 by costco | 507 comments on Hacker News.
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham: https://ift.tt/XLU0pyO Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
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