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pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet. edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174 , but I'm…
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Simple, just do a password reset on your hn username and it forwards to your gmail account
Unless you can't because that box isn't there to do a password reset. Which, btw, is really frustrating as I just had to create a second account to write this. I used to use OpenID and now I can't login to my old account at all.
Maybe a separate page for changes to this site? That way, if someone misses it on the front page, they don't get hung out to dry.
*updated for clarity
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Its funny how defensive HN readers are. I love HN and its content but I'm just wondering why there isnt a forgot password link? Seriously...?
I wondered that for a while, too. But there is a forgot password link, actually. You just have to enter your username and leave the password field blank, and then hit "login." You'll then be presented with a link to get a newly-generated password in an email.
pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet. edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174 , but I'm…
pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet. edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174 , but I'm…
The past few days I've gotten several emails from 'info@ycombinator.com' telling me that I have a new password. (I received several new passwords in the past few days.)
The header seems to indicate that the message was actually sent from news.ycombinator.com.
Are these legit? Why am I receiving them? Has anyone else got one?
I've ignored them for now.
countdown to people selling HN invites like it's a damn torrent tracker hopefully this maintenence takes care of the issue of the login page being unstyled. i always thought it was supposed to go in a popup on the same page, that would make sense given its unstyled markup.
pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet. edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174 , but I'm…
It was the day of the SOPA blackout IIRC. Redditors were bored and looking for their hit of lolcats.
Perhaps related.... The past few days I've gotten several emails from 'info@ycombinator.com' telling me that I have a new password. (I received several new passwords in the past few days.) The header seems to indicate that the message was actually sent from news.ycombinator.com. Are these legit? Why am I receiving them? Has anyone else got one? I've ignored them for now.
New Hacker News pw:
So someone probably thinks they have your username and are wondering why they can't remember the password or receive an new password.
Far less likely is that someone could be trying to discover/exploit a timing attack on the forgotten password generation algorithm.
pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet. edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174 , but I'm…
Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174