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I don't think the reason he wants to find out is because he wants to know. I think he wants to prove that it's possible to find out. He thought it was long eno

I don't think the reason he wants to find out is because he wants to know. I think he wants to prove that it's possible to find out. He thought it was long enough that he could pretty trivially have a program compare the writing style to other HN comments and determine who it was, but he failed. So it's a challenge for other hackers--can you write a program that can determine who said something simply based on the writing style and knowing that he's a member of a reasonably small sample (HN users).

jacquesm 17y ago
You got it. Sorry for not being more clear, I thought it was an interesting challenge, and since I've used up my 'two guesses' I think it is more appropriate to admit failure rather than to keep on hammering away at it until I hit the right user. PG would have an easy time of it (log files) :)
- blogimus 17y ago
  Well, that's the difference between a black box and a white box.