Two HN Announcements

Awesomeness.

I think this is a great idea for the community. I applaud this decision because there are quite a few accelerators, but the special part about YC is HN. Being open enough to give it it's own editorial steering wheel is a great indication of goodwill to the community :)

Now that HN is it's own thing, maybe we'll see access(api?) for vote attribution?

Is that even remotely possible? Or, are the implicit privacy issues too much of a burden?

If you mean publishing people's votes, I can't imagine that we'd ever do that. Vote data is intimate and we have a duty to keep it secret.

"Now that HN is it's own thing, maybe we'll see access(api?) for vote attribution?"

I'm curious why you'd want this? Typically when voting people don't expect that they're going to be 'named and shamed', or even categorized on any level other than anonymously for stats.

Yeah, you are right.

I was thinking it would put rest to the voting rings theory if anyone had access to everyone else's vote history. But, the cost probably isn't worth the benefit.

The research on deanonymization is so powerful that I doubt we'd even release it anonymously for stats.