Also there are a good number of famous/known personalities in HN sure there are, but unless you know who they are and what their HN account names are and pay c

Also there are a good number of famous/known personalities in HN sure there are, but unless you know who they are and what their HN account names are and pay close attention to that name on each message then you won't notice them. and, those people are not famous for their writing on HN. as far as i remember, reddit used to show awards next to the nickname on each message, so you could easily see who the high quality posters were. this appears to be no longer the case. they still have an avatar though, which can make particular users easy to recognize. neither HN nor 4chan have that.