That would be a good compromise, yes. I think HN has enough 'karma traffic' that a timing attack against someone's Internet Points wouldn't be very feasible. B

That would be a good compromise, yes. I think HN has enough 'karma traffic' that a timing attack against someone's Internet Points wouldn't be very feasible. But the easy implementation is to literally have a [redacted] account in the database, and point all the posts at it. I'm not sure it matters; leaving behind royalty checks for old posts is a fair trade for anonymizing the data.