That's a feature that a lot of people like about HN. That said you can have as much privacy on HN as you want you have to facilitate it yourself though. If you

That's a feature that a lot of people like about HN. That said you can have as much privacy on HN as you want you have to facilitate it yourself though. If you are too lazy to use the platform as you want, it might just not be the right platform for you. Also catering to fringe users like you and their "rights" they feel obliged to never worked for any platform.