Devantirezabout 1 year ago
Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
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A developer reproduced a method to fingerprint Hacker News commenters by writing style. The technique uses cosine similarity on top word frequency vectors to detect similar accounts and identify fake accounts controlled by the same user. The original work was by student Christopher Tarry.
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