Not to diminish one bit how you're feeling, but the bright side is: Today you know this is easily done (information you didn't have yesterday), that the creator had no intention of "outing" you specifically, and that you can take steps to obfuscate this specific aspect of your posts that connects your public alts.
Not to diminish one bit how you're feeling, but the bright side is: Today you know this is easily done (information you didn't have yesterday), that the creator had no intention of "outing" you specifically, and that you can take steps to obfuscate this specific aspect of your posts that connects your public alts.
If you want to ask HN to remove your data, send a message to hn@ycombinator.com.
Yes, sadly. In this case, it'd be an arsehole move, but good point.