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Hyperknot
Personal blog · blog.hyperknot.comprogrammingaiweb
Hyperknot is a personal blog at blog.hyperknot.com about programming, ai and web. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hyperknot posts on comparing auth providers for MVPs and on investigating AI manipulation of a viral paraglider video. The links are cited as supporting references in comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Development, software and the web.
Most-linked posts?
- Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17
- Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-26
- Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-30
What Hacker News says?
I used Supabase in a previous project and found that I prefer Firebase for MVPs. 1. I prefer NoSQL to start because I don’t have to deal with numerous database migrations when I want to update the schema due to changing requirements. 2. I prefer Firebase’s out-of-the-box authentication: https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/comparing-auth-providers However, I would consider Supabase if row-level security or complex queries w…
Comment linking /p/comparing-auth-providers
on “Show HN: React SaaS – Boilerplate with automated setup of dev/prod environments”Submitted OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second as a story · 609 points
HN discussionI don't know what is more interesting to me - that this might have actually happened or that it was manipulated the way it was https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/investigating-ai-manipulation-i...
Comment linking /p/investigating-ai-manipulation-in
on “Chinese paraglider survives accidental 8,000M-high flight”Submitted Understanding Round Robin DNS as a story · 394 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files? as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Month of OpenFreeMap as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and others as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corepack's packageManager field is breaking package.jsons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2nd Stage of the AI Age: AI Labs Need Your Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others as a story · 1 points
HN discussion