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No but there was a user called nickb that was responsible for a disproportionate amount of content (excellent content) back in the day. There was a lot of speculation that nickb and pg were one in the same. Here are some posts for context:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99923

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292858



Thanks! I had completely forgotten about nickb!


nickb...as in Nicholas Bourbaki, perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki

Edit: someone else who thought about this (much) earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428


And this would seem to prove it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109

A guy named Roth wrote a post, that got posted to HN, about pg's essay on how to disagree. pg responds. Husafan starts a dialog with pg. There's a response back, clearly continuing the dialog, saying "I felt like I gave that aspect of his post the reply it deserved", referring to "my essay", etc. but instead of being posted under pg's handle, the response is posted by nickb.

A little further down the thread, user ncart makes the connection:

holy sh*t!!! nickb = pg ????




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