[kevingadd]

Even more than that, one of the administrators previously told me via email that HN is not able to rename accounts (presumably they use account names instead of numeric IDs as a key somewhere). So the only explanation for the displayed author on that post having changed is that they switched the author of the post, the original author's account could not have been renamed.

[dang]

Either that email was many years ago or something got confused, because we rename accounts for users all the time.

In fact, when we developed that feature, I replied to everyone who had emailed over the years asking for it, asking if they still wanted it. If you weren't on that list, your email must have been many years ago.

Edit: oops - I see I neglected the important thing. If you still want your account to be renamed, please email [e-mail] and we'll be happy to help!

[stevesearer]

The account creation date for user _pecl is also the same date the comment was made so maybe it is possible to make a new user, change their creation date, and also change the attribution of specific comments to that user?

[inopinatus]

It's also the same month that Lambda School was launched⁽¹⁾, and there's no doubt re. Allred's prior interest in gaming Twitter⁽²⁾.

[1] https://twitter.com/calebhicks/status/1093885962059272193

[2] https://medium.com/user-acquisition-for-hackers/exploiting-t...