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Hexclave
Company blog · stack-auth.com/blog · on HN as n2d4securitywebprogramming
Hexclave is the company blog at stack-auth.com, writing about security, web and programming. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The open-source Auth0 alternative”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Hexclave is the open-source platform for everything user. Modular building blocks — auth, payments, emails, analytics — that fit around your product.
Most-linked posts?
- The open-source Auth0 alternative3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-19
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-01
- OAuth from First Principles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-01
What Hacker News says?
This is fantastic. I've implemented OAuth2 4-5 times over the past few years. It seams overly complicated at first, but over time I've come to understand more of the vulnerabilities each piece of complexity exists to mitigate. Every time I've thought I could do it simpler, I eventually discovered a vulnerability in my approach. You get basically all that knowledge here in a concise blog post. This is going to be the…
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on “OAuth from First Principles”Submitted OAuth from First Principles as a story · 490 points
HN discussionI love reading blog posts on oauth2 and oidc. I have a mental model on how it works but every person has their own way to describe the flows. So far my favorite article has been oauth-oidc from first principles[1] and why each piece of the protocol is useful. This being hackernews, any comment worthwhile cannot be devoid of criticism. Trust-on-first-use is used incorrectly here -- saving the previous authorization s…
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on “What's OAuth2, anyway?”Submitted Show HN: Stack, an open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative as a story · 144 points
HN discussionStack Auth (S24) | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Hiring founding & design engineers! We're building the customer platform for developers — think of a single service that does auth, payments, analytics, marketing emails, and so much more. We're selling to developers & startups so our audience is right here on this website! If you're in San Francisco and frequent Hacker News, that's enough of a reason to DM me on Twit…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)”Submitted On JavaScript's Weirdness as a story · 95 points
HN discussionStack Auth (S24) | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Hiring design & founding engineers! We're building the customer platform for developers — think of a single service that does auth, payments, analytics, marketing emails, and so much more. If you're in San Francisco and frequent Hacker News, that's enough of a reason to DM me on Twitter @konstiwohlwend! Would love to invite you over for a coffee at our hacker house :)…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)”Submitted Investigating CVE-2025-29927: Authorization Bypass in Next.js Middleware as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAccess here - - AI SDK - Antigravity- https://antigravity.google/ - AI Documentation - SuperDocs - https://superdocs.cloud/ - Database - Supabase - https://supabase.com - Auth - StackAuth - https://stack-auth.com - LLM/AI Model - Gemini by AI Studio (aistudio.google.com) or Self-trained Unsloth Model ( https://unsloth.ai ) or Openrouter for testing (openrouter.ai) - Deployment - Vercel (Vercel.com) or CloudFare Page…
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on “I optimised my vibe coding tech stack cost to $0”Submitted The open-source Auth0 alternative as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot sure about Azure ecosystem but huge fan of https://clerk.com/ . Trying out https://stack-auth.com/ which just launched on HN, mostly out of OSS solidarity
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on “Ask HN: Best auth provider and db for a Next.js project?”Submitted Stack Auth as a story · 1 points
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