Please no. We'd be better off hiding usernames by default than this. If you really want to read a user's comments, you obviously can, as you found out yourself

Please no. We'd be better off hiding usernames by default than this. If you really want to read a user's comments, you obviously can, as you found out yourself. But let that be a manual exercise, or bookmark their page, or whatever. Keep the focus of HN on content, not personalities, please!