The official HN policy[1] tries to maintain balance between managing content and privacy. But when it is trivial to access archived HN content [2] [3], it is not worth the risk.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799
2. https://huggingface.co/datasets/nixiesearch/hackernews-comme...
3. https://github.com/gpanther/hn-archive