[thuganalyst]

The real question here is how OP's username is green.

I tried making a new account and naming it <font color="#ee00ff">accountname</font> but HN doesn't allow characters like '<' so that didn't work.

[jxcl]

Accounts newer than 2 weeks show up as green.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#green-...

[outworlder]

> but HN doesn't allow characters like '<'

Good thing that it doesn't, otherwise the next deadline would be about XSS injection on Hacker News.