Comments on: How I Lost My Hacker News Name

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:56:50 +0000

I hope they have anti-bot registration nailed down otherwise someone is going to register every phone book name and dictionary word out there just to shut them down. What will they do then?

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:40:20 +0000

This is a fantastic way to ensure I’ll never look at Hacker News again. *rolls on over to reddit*

By: Den Nicholson

Den Nicholson — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:50:21 +0000

I don’t see the point of not requiring an email address, I suppose the site title tells us something about that, however there is no way to validate who you are when you lose your login credentials.

By: Syed Noman Ali

Syed Noman Ali — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:40:26 +0000

Now Hacker News team should change there functionality and design now its creepy to me :-/

By: Michael Robinson

Michael Robinson — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:36:28 +0000

It’s one of those fun situations where trying to be more usable ends up making the software less so. It should be made painfully and unambiguously clear in a post-signup message that a lost account is lost forever if you don’t add an email address.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:43:53 +0000

Interesting. Well, it was nearly four years ago, but maybe I have the old laptop around without things cleared. Will check. But the other thing is that I’d really like to merge or change the accounts, too.

By: Yonathan

Yonathan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:32:23 +0000

Do you have the original computer (or backup) where you made the account? The user cookie seems to last until 2038, so as long as you didn’t clear cookies you should still be able to log in.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:07:28 +0000

Have you tried 123456?

By: Aaron Friedman

Aaron Friedman — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:49:30 +0000

Now that is an incredible story! Gave me a nice laugh.

Glad you are at peace with it