I do kind of agree with this, and I definitely resonate with not wanting to have to worry about what I said ten years ago.

But to the degree that HN is "privacy hostile" as you put it, with regards to not being able to delete comments, I'd say that it's also "privacy friendly" to an almost equal degree, given there is absolutely no personal information required in order to create an account.

And there is none of the usual invasive social network crap which drives me away from literally every online platform apart from HN.