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		antirez on Nov 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with al... writing "antirez" shows accounts with spanish names (none is mine). I guess Italian and Spanish speakers write very similarly English, but on HN there are a lot more Spanish speakers than Italian ones so that's what I get.

costco on Nov 27, 2022 [–]

It seems the accuracy for nonnative speakers is not nearly as good as it is for native speakers. The algorithm could definitely use some work.

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