Since all posts are sequentially numbered you can just go to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 and see who posted. I

Since all posts are sequentially numbered you can just go to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 and see who posted. I can tell you that phyllis is number 2...