My policy is always to be considerate to other people, never to try to hurt someone's feelings on purpose, but beyond that, I feel like I'm generally being some

My policy is always to be considerate to other people, never to try to hurt someone's feelings on purpose, but beyond that, I feel like I'm generally being somewhat guarded even when it's anonymous. It's not impossible that there could be some kind of leak, or that an algorithm could look at what you wrote, and compute some kind of signature based on what you wrote (eg: n-gram probabilities), and match it up with your other online identities. In general, you kind of have to assume that anything you write online could eventually be tied back to your public identity. That being said, I tend to assume that if you said something your employer might disapprove of, it wouldn't be a problem unless what you said somehow gathered a lot of attention online. For that you'd have to be famous, or stir some serious shit on twitter. Even if the identities of everyone on HN were outed, I'm guessing mostly nobody would care, except if they found out Jeff Bezos was secretly posting hateful messages.