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Comment by dwedge | Hacker News Reader

I love the irony of you checking them out for more information in response to a comment of them being worried about who reads their data. Nothing wrong with it, just make me chuckle

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There's something about circles of control in this, that makes the difference. If I publish information about myself, that's about me, and it's in my control.

If someone else shares information about me, without my consent, and someone uses that to nose in on me, that feels creepy and problematic.

If you find that concerning, I recommend asking Claude or Codex to analyze all your HN comments and build a profile of you (I recommend that to everyone, not trying to single you out btw.) It takes about 20 minutes. It was eye opening and somewhat unsettling how accurate it was when I ran it on my own data. Even worse, there’s NO way to delete your old HN comments.

Everybody makes mistakes, it's unfortunate that many people on the internet are psycho and won't let the past be the past...

Well at the risk of flouting HN guidelines, I went to Grok and did exactly that. Grok's profiling seems thoroughly fact-based, and doesn't pull any punches.

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_c00f7358-429f-4ff8-bd3f-5a...

I suppose it's the 2026 version of "Googling Yourself" and of course, could be used by any of us vs. any given forum account on HN or elsewhere.

FYamusement: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/06/are-you-in-weights.h...

That was an eye openingly delightful read. Thank you for the recommendation!

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