Could @dang or someone else please help me with this? I've read that all one needs to do is send an email to hn@ycombinator.com but my requests have been ignored up to this point. Thanks.
Maybe try (politely) emailing him once more? He's probably bombarded with lots of emails all the time and might have missed yours.<p>Also, dang usually doesn't like people deleting accounts (since it goes against the HN philosophy of leaving the website as a permanent record). A more easily accepted request is to change the username to something different, which is not a bad option if you want to erase traces of yourself.