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> I’ve been here for a years under different usernames

The guidelines ask that you don't do this. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> 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.

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You don't have to do things that other companies would like you to do, no matter how emphatically they are stated. Just the other day I replied to a comment complaining about how LinkedIn broke Google's ToS. As if that's somehow a problem.

I’m not hoarding a library of accounts to abuse the ToS. My last account is on a dead iPhone somewhere.

Things break or transfer ownership. HN accounts are quick to make, and I’m not one to collect internet points.

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