Re:Ask HN: Should HN Get 2FA?
by rekabis on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:02PM
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Thank you for confirming my second sentence for me. Especially the first sentence of your response - “write down your password”. Wow. This is the worst possible take I can imagine.
Like, this isn’t the 1980s anymore, password managers exist - even local-only ones - that can keep both strong passwords and recovery keys totally safe. KeePass in particular can be synced using server-free methods, keeping everything on-device, strongly encrypted, and essentially offline.
I suggest you touch some grass and actually educate yourself. TOTP 2FA is a massive leap in security that brings the traditional username+password safely into the modern threat era. Provided that the password is long+strong and the username leverages dot extensions in the eMail (if an eMail) or is a totally unique username (if only a text string), said three-point security can reliably exceed that of passkeys.
Like, this isn’t the 1980s anymore, password managers exist - even local-only ones - that can keep both strong passwords and recovery keys totally safe. KeePass in particular can be synced using server-free methods, keeping everything on-device, strongly encrypted, and essentially offline.
I suggest you touch some grass and actually educate yourself. TOTP 2FA is a massive leap in security that brings the traditional username+password safely into the modern threat era. Provided that the password is long+strong and the username leverages dot extensions in the eMail (if an eMail) or is a totally unique username (if only a text string), said three-point security can reliably exceed that of passkeys.