How to remove your Hacker News account

How to remove your Hacker News account

You cannot delete your account.

One of our users writes:

“Hacker News (HN) does not have a way to delete your account, but you can ‘anonymize’ your profile. [read the tip below!]. If you used your real life name as your username it’s a bit more of a problem, especially if your name is not ‘John Smith’, you could try emailing the owner of the site either at info@ycombinator.com or pg@ycombinator.com. […] From my experience you can email info@ycombinator.com and ask to make your account inactive but they won’t delete any posts or submissions that you have made as I’ve been told ‘they are just too entrenched’.”

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