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thaumaturgytoday at 6:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

Off-topic, but: I see you've got a green username (new account). How did you know this post was on the HN front page? ARIN's writeup doesn't mention your service by name. I looked it up out of curiosity from the CIDR they mentioned, before clicking over into the comments here. Unless you've got a regular HN account and just set up a new business-facing one for this?

I periodically see people showing up early in comment threads posted about things they've written or articles where they're the subject. Usually I figure they've got a Google alert or some other whatsit, or they've got something monitoring referers in their web traffic. But this is a case where neither would apply.


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nateb2022today at 7:04 PM

> Unless you've got a regular HN account and just set up a new business-facing one for this?

This is likely; I can't imagine a regular HN user would appreciate having their subnet publicly available in their comment history.

AndroTuxtoday at 7:00 PM

Maybe some college of theirs on HN recognized the story and shared it with them.