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KPGv2today at 4:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

"Doxxing" is from the 90s and was used to describe a hacker unmasking another hacker so they could be arrested. That's almost exactly the same usage as here.


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Sharlintoday at 4:38 PM

Semantic shift happens over time. A 2026 article is supposed to communicate to 2026, not 1996, readers.

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nailertoday at 5:12 PM

I can't find it in the jargon file: http://catb.org/jargon/html/D.html

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