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Re:Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:37PM (#48676777)
Just for clarity: Cloudflare runs authentik for their workforce identity. (source/disclosure: am CEO)

Glad to see them making use of Hydra for OAuth apps!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026) on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:24PM (#47604611)
Authentik Security | Security Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time

Authentik Security (https://goauthentik.io) is the company behind authentik (https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik), an open source identity provider with 1M+ unique installations. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all!

We are a small remote team, looking to scale up with experienced software engineers, primarily with a backend security focus. Bonus points if you have significant experience with identity/SSO standards and/or Django/Python.

To apply, please use: https://forms.gle/NYXH4E19LUohbpmJA

Re:AI slop security engineering: Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles on Friday November 21, 2025 @08:49AM (#46004593)
Thanks for the mention! (Authentik Security CEO here.) We've become something of Okta migration experts at this point... Cloudflare moved to us a couple years back after they had to be the ones to let Okta know it'd been breached yet again. [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-ano...

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:05PM (#45647089)
Not sure if this counts fully as 'distributed' here, but we (Authentik Security) help many companies self-host authentik multi-region or in (private cloud + on-prem) to allow for quick IAM failover and more reliability than IAMaaS.

There's also "identity orchestration" tools like Strata that let you use multiple IdPs in multiple clouds, but then your new weakest link is the orchestration platform.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025) on Monday June 02, 2025 @01:11PM (#44160978)
Authentik Security | Senior Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time

Authentik Security (https://goauthentik.io) is the company behind authentik (https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik), an open source identity provider with 1M+ unique installations. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all!

We are a small remote team, looking to scale up with experienced software engineers, primarily with a backend focus. Bonus points if you have significant experience with identity/SSO standards and/or Django/Python.

There is also the opportunity to be "forward deployed" spending 20%+ of time with enterprise customers (remotely) on configuration best practices and rollout strategies, _if_ that is of interest to the right candidate.

To apply, please use: https://forms.gle/NYXH4E19LUohbpmJA

Re:Evolving OpenAI's Structure on Monday May 05, 2025 @02:52PM (#43898198)
A PBC is just a for-profit company that has _some_ sort of specific mandate to benefit the "public good" - however it chooses to define that. It's generally meant to provide some balance toward societal good over the more common, strictly shareholder profit-maximizing alternative.

(IANAL but run a PBC that uses this charter[1] and have written about it here[2] as part of our biennial reporting process.)

[1] https://github.com/OpenCoreVentures/ocv-public-benefit-compa...

[2] https://goauthentik.io/blog/2024-09-25-our-biennial-pbc-repo...

Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @04:07PM (#42717006)
This is exactly our thinking with authentik (open source IdP), and it's played out in practice so far. Enterprise sales conversations are so much easier when they start with "we all use you in our homelabs already." We're much more focused on giving those individual users a positive early experience (in hopes that some small percentage will really pay off down the road) than in extracting a few dollars from each of them.
Re:PacCam: Pac-Man controlled with your face on Monday November 04, 2024 @07:48AM (#42041045)
Love it! I think we'd get along - https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:23PM (#40659866)
Sure, you can reach out to 'hello' at our domain to send a message to the team!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:45AM (#40563839)
Authentik Security | Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time

Authentik Security (https://goauthentik.io) is the company behind authentik (https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik), an open source identity provider with over 250k+ unique installations and 12M+ downloads. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all!

We are a small remote team, looking to scale up with a couple experienced software engineers, primarily with a backend focus. Bonus points if you have significant experience with identity/SSO standards and/or Django/Python.

There is also the opportunity to be "forward deployed" spending 15-20% of time with enterprise customers (remotely) on configuration best practices and rollout strategies, _if_ that is of interest to the right candidate.

To apply, please use: https://forms.gle/TjRuTCec8M6UaN2Q8

Re:Bash.org is dead, long live newbash.org on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:33AM (#39091411)
I patched together a rough lookalike using quote data from https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes and the archived pages. It's hosted on GitHub pages, using some simple JS since the entire database is 6MB.

All of the code and data, such as it is, is available at https://github.com/everythingishacked/newbash.org

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:20PM (#38100513)
Thanks, flanbiscuit! I hope so too. We might have to professionalize this one, but I've managed to build a company on a meme before :)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:34AM (#38099677)
Banana For Scale | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Founding Engineer

Seeking a developer with Three.js/WebGL experience to help build a new project from the ground up. Bonus points if you have played around with Gaussian splatting or other radiance field techniques, have experience in C/C++ or computer vision.

Banana For Scale (working title) allows anyone to record any space, then edit it in 3D. Think Matterport + Polycam for interactive space design.

I am currently looking for my first hire, initially as a paid contractor so that we can both test out working together. Ideally this would move to a much larger full-time role as part of the founding team. You don't have to be experienced or interested in management, but you should be comfortable with self-directed work.

I previously founded Hunter2 (YC18), scaled to $1M ARR in < 2 years with a team of three before acquisition. I would like to stay deeply involved in the tech development for this project, but someone with the right experience and 100% focus on coding could speed up our efforts 20x.

To apply, use https://forms.gle/oCp1X3Mc5xfwqboBA

Re:Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:47PM (#36538188)
Yep, arms and legs control "thighs" and "calves" - although I was roughly as bad at full-body QWOP as on a keyboard!
Re:Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:45PM (#36538146)
Thank you! For those who missed that one: https://github.com/everythingishacked/Semaphore

To me, the main motivation beyond "because I can" is the accessibility of these projects: you just need some Python code and any webcam. I'd love to play around more with VR, but the owners of the leading systems aren't exactly known for their openness to external APIs... Maybe Google Cardboard is worth a revisit :)

Re:Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:58AM (#36537318)
RemindMe 1 year...
Re:Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:31AM (#36535589)
I shack you for noticing :o)
Re:Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:31AM (#36533726)
Pretty well from my limited testing! For standing poses, it works roughly as well as a human in good lighting and contrast conditions - as in, in situations where you would have a hard time picking out where limbs are, Mediapipe will too. The more common issue is poor lighting, or clothing that blends into a busy background.
Re:CheekyKeys: A Face-Controlled Keyboard on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:18AM (#35726361)
My original version used blinking for all the Morse code, but then the entire typing process was basically this experience :D
Re:CheekyKeys: A Face-Controlled Keyboard on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:16AM (#35726348)
As an 'unnatural' scroller, yes! And you could always swap the two lines to customize it: https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys/blob/master...
Re:CheekyKeys: A Face-Controlled Keyboard on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:50PM (#35721900)
Thank you!
Re:Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:07PM (#35558629)
Yes, hoping to do something along these lines for a future update! I'm not sure if it would be individual notes/chords per motion, or something based on samples and a looper. If anyone knows of related projects, I'd love to get some ideas for inspiration.
Re:Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:38AM (#35553448)
My face-computer interface is probably a better bet if you're working with fewer than four limbs but have full facial control: https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys

The next version will be more customizable, so you can create whatever gestures you'd prefer with whatever means at your disposal!

Re:Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:32AM (#35553409)
I've got some musical + basic audio background and would love to turn this into a musical instrument or sample generator, just haven't worked out the best way to translate motion to sound yet. Any sound engineers or DJs who want to collaborate, reach out!
Re:Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:05PM (#35545953)
I tried that out! It was honestly hard to tell a difference, I'm already so bad at it...
Re:Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:54PM (#35545813)
I've seen lots of examples of interpreting sign language, but not general/customizable gestures. Should be very doable though!

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