Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Wow. This gives a lot of false positives, but it found all ~10 of my old accounts over the years.The most interesting thing is that my writing style changed pretty drastically since a decade ago. Searching for my oldest account matches my earliest usernames, whereas searching this account matched the rest.The details of the algorithm are fascinating: https://stylometry.net/about Mostly because of how simple it is. I assumed it would measure word embeddings against a trained ML model, but nothing so fancy.