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by echelon 1637 days ago
HN is a pretty small community. There are ample dictionary word usernames left.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=generalmotors

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=usually

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fucking

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sucks

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=although

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=their

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hummers

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=appear

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rugged

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tough

None of these are registered yet.

Is it remarkable because it's a name? I bet we can find lots of those, too.

2 comments

I was surprised at ford in particular because it's the name one of the main characters of a book that's very popular in this community.
HN has polls? Is that an old feature that got removed or something noone uses anymore?
Surprised more of these haven't been snatched up yet, some of them are really pretty. Although tough has been registered for five years.
Usually, you'd be right, but actually, no it wasn't tough it seems that way now ;-)