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It's already too late for that but you can at least, by deleting now, reduce the chances they see it.

Not your HN account though. They even stopped replying to my annual emails asking if it's "possible" yet. They originally help me change the name, and scrub any replies that mentioned the original name. That's not enough though, thanks to old copies of the site data that still have my original name, linked directly to the real HN post it appears on, showing up in search results.

Dang removing your posts only hurts the flow of conversation and has zero benefit for your privacy.

All HN threads are archived by the IA and there's data dumps of the whole thing under 50 GB iirc.

Going back and messing with comments will not help. The only way to prevent your posts from being associated with you is to never post or associate them in the first place.

If you're in Europe, you can sue them under GDPR? They won't obey - HN explicitly chooses to disobey European laws - but having an arrest warrant out might be inconvenient enough for them to do it anyway.

That would likely result for just adding the geofencing so that EU countries can’t access directly.

Seems an improvement, and wouldn't help with the arrest warrant because the law still says they have to delete old data.

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