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Some more here:

Friendly people.

I've received emails like that too over the years. What hugely controversial thing do I do? I have a website where I sometimes write about $stuff and I post on HN. Keeping the basic info private is probably a good thing especially if they're based in the US, because "SWATting" etc, but beyond that it doesn't seem "credible" in the sense that it's very likely someone will show up at their door with a gun.

Since the first two are redacted, I wonder if they sent them with their real names.

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>>arp242+(OP)
It can be explained by the normal curve. The bigger your audience is the weirder the outliers will be.

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>>z3t4+ty
Pretty much, yeah. There's about 26.8 million developers in the world. Assuming 5 million read this story (not everyone speaks English) and 0.01% of people is a bit unhinged then you've got 50,000 unhinged people, and only about 0.006% of those 50,000 (or 0.00006% of total) need to be unhinged enough to actually shoot off an email.