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dweeklytoday at 5:43 PM4 repliesview on HN

Passkeys are the 2026 answer. No (added) username, no password, no two factor SMS, no phishing.


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teejtoday at 6:04 PM

Passkeys are auth garbage. Normal users do not benefit from overly complex auth.

mikkupikkutoday at 6:05 PM

Too confusing for me, I don't get it. How do I record my login info on paper so my family can get in if I die?

jwrtoday at 6:01 PM

Until you lose your device or it breaks suddenly.

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xienzetoday at 6:17 PM

I'm not a fan. But what Anthropic SHOULD have done is use plain ol' SSO. Google, GitHub, Microsoft, etc. logins with the option to do this magic link stuff. The third party auth providers would use passkeys at the user's discretion.