Title: Author here.  This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user.  It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago.  I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy.  If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here&#x27;s Paul Graham:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stylometry.net&#x2F;user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stylometry.net&#x2F;user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
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