[shevekofurras]

You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. They'll delete your account and assign your comments and posts to a random username.

Yes this violates any EU citizen's right to be forgotten under GDPR. Welcome to silicon valley.

[whamlastxmas]

Does every comment previously attached to your account have a unique username or do they still all share the same?

Sort of moot point considering the multiple HN archives that would still have the original username attached

[shevekofurras]

The username is changed but the comments remain attached to a single different name.

[godelski]

  > You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. 

Which is why I'd write an open letter and not do the thing. If I could nuke my account I wouldn't need to ask Dang, and I would have already done it.

[Der_Einzige]

How would one report this to the EU and force HN to follow the GDPR?

[kyboren]

AFAIK Y Combinator does no business in the EU and HN is hosted in a US data center.

Under which legal theory does EU law apply here?

[johnnyanmac]

No business? It's purely an American company?

I could be hallucinating, but I swore job boards also had peopel hire from the EU.