Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Absolutely. I can just call each of you XX_01 up to XX_(however many) and then do my analysis. If it shows something interesting about you and your voting patterns (and I don't know what it might show - this is (informal) research so I don't (yet) know what I'm doing) then I could only tell those who weren't anonymous.

I'll probably try to arrange something so that people can semi-reverse engineer their results. Once I've worked out what I'm doing, and get any results, I'll let people know, and they can decide whether to release their data, or become known, or whatever.

I have thought about this, I haven't got any firm conclusions, my principle is that people's data is theirs to release.



Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: