how do you verify if you see any "author here" or "co-author here" comment on some thread? Isn't this risky as some may try to defame or misinform the community? Will HN take such responsibility? Curious.
But more importantly, in my experience their HN handle matches their GitHub or Twitter profile that's found in the project, and it's easy to interact with them and explore more of their work (I've never seen a non-matching username or throwaway account claiming authorship before).
> Will HN take such responsibility?
I'm not sure what that means. I can claim here that I'm the King of the UN. (Thanks, I understand it's an honor to meet Me.) Nobody verifies what I write. Whiting some wide limits, the owner of the site is not responsible for what the user write.
But it's known that HN links YC founders to their HN handles and highlights them to other founders, so this might not be too difficult.