Gergely Nagy11h ago

After a shitpost yesterday, I had a couple of mentions expressing their wish that they'd delete the account if that was possible on HN.

Good news! It is: you have to email [email protected], and they'll delete the account. They try to keep comments & posts, but they'll randomize the username for those. They may delete them - I don't remember if they deleted or randomized mine, it's been a while.

But the account you can delete, if you want to.

Gergely Nagy (@[email protected])

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments I can do better! I can profile them based on them having an account there! It's not a favourable profile. #algernonReviewsHackerNews

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samir, a terminally deprecated method7h ago
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@algernon the past few years I have been avoiding deleting my HN account for a very weird reason: in 2010 I posted in a thread about the Hudson project being taken over by Oracle and suggested they rename it to "Jenkins": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954946 and somehow they thought it was a good idea, and they took my suggestion

when I started my job at a CI company 6 years later, Jenkins was our main competitor that some of our customers would talk about switching to in order to save costs; everyone was worried about Jenkins

I decided that this would be my Terrible Secret that I would hide for years, only to reveal on my very last day at the job--well, that last day was Friday, so I shared that link in chat and blew a good number of minds

but now it's finally served its purpose, so I can finally delete my account!

I vote for calling it "Jenkins": http://twitter.com/atmos/status/16880282279 &#6... | Hacker News

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Show threadDot6h ago
@technomancy how do you keep having these "cool guy not looking at the explosion they're walking away from behind them" moments in tech?
Show threadtechnomancy6h ago

@the_dot_matrix bahaha; love the metaphor

in this case I was holding on to this secret for NINE YEARS at this job! so it felt pretty good once I finally got to do the mic drop