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The site has a hidden webauthn trigger[1], an anti-pattern that automatically logs user in via passkey if it exists. A better approach, IMO, would be requiring user to click "log in".

[1]: `<input type="text" autocomplete="username webauthn" style="position:fixed;top:0;left:0;width:1px;height:1px;opacity:0;pointer-events:none" aria-hidden="true" />`

The security issue aside, seeing more companies push announcements like these on X as the only official source is a trend I'm not sure I like.

I can understand the rationale, this feels lighter and not something that belongs on status.github.com or the blog. Maybe what's actually missing is an official channel for ephemeral stuff on a domain they own, somewhere between a status page and a tweet? Just sharing an observation.

Hi HN, author here.

AIMX is a self-hosted, open-source mail server for AI agents. MCP over stdio for mailbox and mail management, OS-based auth, mail stored as Markdown on disk. Roughly how I imagine Postfix would look like if it were built for AI agents from scratch.

My AIMX intro blog, with a short 40-second demo GIF: https://uzyn.com/2026/introducing-aimx/

Happy to talk through any of the design decisions.

IMG_0416 (2024) 4 months ago

It seems our fingers have gotten thinner, or more skillful at tapping at relatively tinier buttons now. Look at how huge those buttons are.

I am aware screen size has increased tremendously, even then I think the buttons were still quite huge compared to the size of today's tappable links.

Impressive! Feels really responsive. I feel the controls are a little unusual though: WASD corresponds to actual map orientation rather than to where the character is facing. I find it confusing when playing together with a mouse, where I would expect I can hold W to move forward while using the mouse to control the character's orientation and direction.

You made a good point, esp. if your passkey vault is comprosed, e.g. Apple iCloud's credentials are leaked. signCount, incremented or not, would not help here in informing you of your hacked iCloud account – that would be dependent on iCloud's service itself for detecting and informing you of your compromised account.

I would still like to see big tech passkey providers implement signCount for the following 2 reasons:

1. It helps to push relying parties to implement signCount verification. Right now most relying parties do not implement it as many providers are returning `0` for `signCount`.

2. This would be an odd one, it helps against detecting leaked private keys of passkeys, if a malicious attacker, internal or external, manages to obtain the private key.

CSS Zen Garden 1 year ago

Loved the site and the companion book. Borrowed it at my local library and kept renewing it. Taught me CSS, coming out of hacking CSS with all the weird tricks at that time, and made me realize that you _can_ make beautiful semantic websites without the crazy hacks.

It's the other way around. HTMX is not suitable for client-side scripting heavy app like SPA. It's more for "traditional" AJAX-style web app.

Fair point. I wouldn't say it's by a lot because I am getting quite good results with ChatGPT's models too. A part of it could also just be confirmation bias too.

In-game sniper that you have to aim inches above the head is just not as fun, especially for an extremely fast-paced game like Unreal Tournament.

Surprised that Claude (the app, not model) not only has done well for so long, but has somewhat consistently clinched the top spot in coding, all without a feature that is considered somewhat of a basic feature for most consumer-facing AI apps.

RSS was a key protocol in syndication a widely free and open web before the domination of big tech/social media. We now have new internet generation that has never known RSS, relying largely on "the algorithm" of the big tech in content syndication.

Thank you for your effort in advocating RSS support. I hope RSS makes a major come back especially with the recent events.

Search suggestions are hardly ever useful, but cause a massive privacy leak.

They are shipped on by default for most browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), but at lease they can be disabled (search for "search suggestions" in config).

I agree. I have been on Pivotal Tracker for over a decade. Still am. Tried Jira and a few others, usually feeling like they are too taxing on the management part.

What are alternatives that are light on the customization and day-to-day management?

Part of the draw of WSOP is that it turns poker into somewhat of a spectator sport, especially during ESPN's coverage.

With solvers now it may need to segregate players from spectators just like chess and esports of games with fog of war. May not all be a bad thing as you can possibly start introducing live commentary to live audience.