They already refuse to comply with CPRA, instead electing to replace your username with a random 6(?) character string, prefixed with `_`, if I remember correctly.

I know, because I've been here since maybe 2015 or so, but this account was created in 2019.

So any PII you have mentioned in your comments is permanent on Hacker News.

I would appreciate it if they gave users the ability to remove all of their personal data, but in correspondence and in writing here on Hacker News itself, Dan has suggested that they value the posterity of conversations over the law.