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by geoduck14 1806 days ago
Serious question, why would you use a throwaway account for a comment like this?
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NegativeLatency 1806 days ago
Maybe the name is just a joke?

user: hn_throwaway_99

created: February 20, 2017

karma: 28836

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ineedasername 1806 days ago
Really any account with less than 100k karma is practically a throwaway account.
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coding123 1806 days ago
whoa, even dang has only 25k. I'm not longer going to listen to him when he threatens bans.
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ineedasername 1805 days ago
Maybe HN stores karma as a 32-bit integer and dang had a buffer overflow and is simply wrapping back around to 25k now.
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