Building a Hacker News OAuth Provider from First Principles

(hn.simplerauth.com)

5 points | by janwilmake 5 hours ago

1 comments

  • janwilmake 5 hours ago
    Hey HN,

    Today I woke up with the idea of making an agent-friendly version of hacker news. The coolest would be to also make it able to login, but that didn't work out, since I got blocked.

    However, I made an oauth provider for HN, and it works on my machine. Unfortunately the IP gets blocked in production, so this isn't gonna work out. Even with a residential proxy, I started to get Captcha protection.

    I'd love to make a 'login with Hackernews' so third party apps can build cool stuff with it. The code's all there.

    Can you whitelist me?

    Cheers, Jan

    • mtmail 5 hours ago
      Use the 'contact' link in the footer to email the moderators.