Thanks for flagging it. Honestly that's 15 minutes of his life that he'll never get back :)

I figured anybody motivated enough could do the same detective work he did...there's a difference between leaving room for inference and posting a billboard, though. That said, that particular niche is already crowded with 3 strong competitors, so anybody interested in duplicating would be better served spending half an hour with a junglescout.com trial to find a more competitive way to get a foothold.

He did post it on his Reddit account with the same name, so it's publicly available already.

Well here's the thing - given enough time and effort some people could probably find your mother's address publicly available and post it here.

However I really hope they won't, just like I hope poster above won't lose money for trying to be nice.

I do understand your point of view, but I find it kinda ironic how HN doesn't allow us to delete our old comments that could contain private information. Does that mean they subscribe to the philosophy of 'as long as it's posted on a public medium, its public information'?

> given enough time and effort some people could probably find your mother's address publicly available and post it here

That actually reminds me - is there a good way of scrubbing that sort of data off the web? Googling around for me will eventually lead you to where I grew up, and where my parents still live. While it tends to keep me ... a bit more polite than I might normally be, it also means that one person with a grudge could start mailing my parents glitter, poorly-packed ant farms, or worse.

The EU is a proponent of the "right to be forgotten" to the point where it is lobbying Google to (successfully) have them remove many results.