[giraffe_lady]

This is based on almost nothing but I always suspected it was done by maciej cegłowski. He has a very similar sort of semi-sincere contempt for the fixations of tech people and the writing style isn't that different from his social media persona. He also disappeared around the same time n-gate went inactive tho he eventually came back.

[tptacek]

I don't think Maciej cares as much about HN as n-gate did.

[idlewords]

This is the first time I'm hearing of n-gate. But if it's awesome then yeah, it was me.