Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn

Very opportunistic toy project as I saw the domain was up for grabs: 'at.hn' is a little site where people can have their own subdomains for whatever their HN username is (opt-in only by adding a slug to your bio). It doesn't really do much. Just shows your HN bio rendered as markdown plus meta stuff. I'm thinking of adding an aggregated user listing on the homepage so people can explore profiles. There's a bunch of interesting people on HN but discoverability is a bit longwinded. I'm wondering what other features people want. Otherwise shall likely leave it as-is. I remember hnbadges was a thing for a while, but can't remember what happened to it. Did people like that? Anyway, at.hn's on github if people want to contribute. - https://github.com/padolsey/at.hn

Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn
at.hn

I'm not the author but anything like this is likely done with a wildcard DNS entry. So basically *.at.hn points to a server app. This app can then see which domain was requested and do whatever it wants with this string, like treat it as a username.

In Cloudflare (for example) you can put in:

    example.com -> 1.2.3.4
    *.example.com -> CNAME example.com

That's a cool idea, I like it. Will check it out when it's up and running again.

If this slips of the first page, I hope you get to resub when things are a little more stable.