Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting

Posted by grep_it 4/16/2025

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting(antirez.com)

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rcpt 4/16/2025|

Searched my nearest neighbor and found someone who agrees with my political views.

srhtftw 4/16/2025||

Did not find any of the alt accounts I've used since 2007. Which is good.

LoganDark 4/16/2025||

we have Dissociative Identity Disorder, I wonder if our different personalities would also have different fingerprints? we do have different writing styles

milesrout 4/16/2025|

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LoganDark 4/17/2025||

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milesrout 4/17/2025||

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dang 4/17/2025||

You've crossed into personal attack here. We ban accounts that do that, and you've been doing it in other threads too—for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43662951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43662889

If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you again.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

johnea 4/16/2025||

I wonder if it could help improve my karma? 8-/

brap 4/16/2025||

My highest match was ChatGPT. Oh well

Edit: ChatGTP, my bad

38 4/16/2025||

this got two accounts that I used to use

antirez 4/16/2025|

Great! Thanks for the ACK.

konstantinua00 4/17/2025||

so the website processes only comments older than 2023?

not very useful for more newer users like me :/

antirez 4/17/2025|

I discovered the data is available up to date. Maybe soon or later I'll repeat and extend the analysis, potentially also using multiple ways to compute the vectors, including SBERT (or better SModernBERT).

gfd 4/17/2025||

I don't mind revealing my alts since none of them seem to link back to my main. But the top 4 results were all correct for me:

https://antirez.com/hnstyle?username=gfd&threshold=20&action...

zawerf (Similarity: 0.7379)

ghj (Similarity: 0.7207)

fyp (Similarity: 0.7197)

uyt (Similarity: 0.7052)

I typically abandon an account once I reach 500 karma since it unlocks the ability to downvote. I'm now very self conscious about the words I overuse...

normie3000 4/17/2025|

It does seem like burner accounts are effective if each account is not overused.

tinix 4/16/2025||

fun project! but it didn't get any of my alts.

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