[krapp]

> Even if the DB were dumped and all users' IP addresses were revealed, the leaked IPs wouldn't be much of a security risk.

There's no DB, the site has always been described as storing everything in memory using Lisp closures, and on flat files. I don't know whether that makes Hacker News more or less secure than average, though.

[meowface]

Then replace DB with "data structure stored in a flat file". Doesn't really matter.