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fheisler

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CEO, Authentik Security

https://youtube.com/EverythingIsHacked

Hunter2, YC W18

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fheisler··on OAuth for all
Just for clarity: Cloudflare runs authentik for their workforce identity. (source/disclosure: am CEO)

Glad to see them making use of Hydra for OAuth apps!

fheisler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
Authentik Security | Security Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time

Authentik Security (https://goauthentik.io) is the company behind authentik (https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik), an open source identity provider with 1M+ unique installations. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all!

We are a small remote team, looking to scale up with experienced software engineers, primarily with a backend security focus. Bonus points if you have significant experience with identity/SSO standards and/or Django/Python.

To apply, please use: https://forms.gle/NYXH4E19LUohbpmJA

fheisler··on Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
Thanks for the mention! (Authentik Security CEO here.) We've become something of Okta migration experts at this point... Cloudflare moved to us a couple years back after they had to be the ones to let Okta know it'd been breached yet again. [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-ano...

fheisler··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Not sure if this counts fully as 'distributed' here, but we (Authentik Security) help many companies self-host authentik multi-region or in (private cloud + on-prem) to allow for quick IAM failover and more reliability than IAMaaS.

There's also "identity orchestration" tools like Strata that let you use multiple IdPs in multiple clouds, but then your new weakest link is the orchestration platform.

fheisler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
Authentik Security | Senior Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time

Authentik Security (https://goauthentik.io) is the company behind authentik (https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik), an open source identity provider with 1M+ unique installations. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all!

We are a small remote team, looking to scale up with experienced software engineers, primarily with a backend focus. Bonus points if you have significant experience with identity/SSO standards and/or Django/Python.

There is also the opportunity to be "forward deployed" spending 20%+ of time with enterprise customers (remotely) on configuration best practices and rollout strategies, _if_ that is of interest to the right candidate.

To apply, please use: https://forms.gle/NYXH4E19LUohbpmJA

fheisler··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
A PBC is just a for-profit company that has _some_ sort of specific mandate to benefit the "public good" - however it chooses to define that. It's generally meant to provide some balance toward societal good over the more common, strictly shareholder profit-maximizing alternative.

(IANAL but run a PBC that uses this charter[1] and have written about it here[2] as part of our biennial reporting process.)

[1] https://github.com/OpenCoreVentures/ocv-public-benefit-compa...

[2] https://goauthentik.io/blog/2024-09-25-our-biennial-pbc-repo...

fheisler··on Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
This is exactly our thinking with authentik (open source IdP), and it's played out in practice so far. Enterprise sales conversations are so much easier when they start with "we all use you in our homelabs already." We're much more focused on giving those individual users a positive early experience (in hopes that some small percentage will really pay off down the road) than in extracting a few dollars from each of them.
fheisler··on PacCam: Pac-Man controlled with your face
Love it! I think we'd get along - https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys
fheisler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Sure, you can reach out to 'hello' at our domain to send a message to the team!
fheisler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Authentik Security | Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time

Authentik Security (https://goauthentik.io) is the company behind authentik (https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik), an open source identity provider with over 250k+ unique installations and 12M+ downloads. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all!

We are a small remote team, looking to scale up with a couple experienced software engineers, primarily with a backend focus. Bonus points if you have significant experience with identity/SSO standards and/or Django/Python.

There is also the opportunity to be "forward deployed" spending 15-20% of time with enterprise customers (remotely) on configuration best practices and rollout strategies, _if_ that is of interest to the right candidate.

To apply, please use: https://forms.gle/TjRuTCec8M6UaN2Q8

fheisler··on Bash.org is dead, long live newbash.org
I patched together a rough lookalike using quote data from https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes and the archived pages. It's hosted on GitHub pages, using some simple JS since the entire database is 6MB.

All of the code and data, such as it is, is available at https://github.com/everythingishacked/newbash.org

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721

fheisler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
Thanks, flanbiscuit! I hope so too. We might have to professionalize this one, but I've managed to build a company on a meme before :)
fheisler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
Banana For Scale | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Founding Engineer

Seeking a developer with Three.js/WebGL experience to help build a new project from the ground up. Bonus points if you have played around with Gaussian splatting or other radiance field techniques, have experience in C/C++ or computer vision.

Banana For Scale (working title) allows anyone to record any space, then edit it in 3D. Think Matterport + Polycam for interactive space design.

I am currently looking for my first hire, initially as a paid contractor so that we can both test out working together. Ideally this would move to a much larger full-time role as part of the founding team. You don't have to be experienced or interested in management, but you should be comfortable with self-directed work.

I previously founded Hunter2 (YC18), scaled to $1M ARR in < 2 years with a team of three before acquisition. I would like to stay deeply involved in the tech development for this project, but someone with the right experience and 100% focus on coding could speed up our efforts 20x.

To apply, use https://forms.gle/oCp1X3Mc5xfwqboBA

fheisler··on Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
Yep, arms and legs control "thighs" and "calves" - although I was roughly as bad at full-body QWOP as on a keyboard!
fheisler··on Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
Thank you! For those who missed that one: https://github.com/everythingishacked/Semaphore

To me, the main motivation beyond "because I can" is the accessibility of these projects: you just need some Python code and any webcam. I'd love to play around more with VR, but the owners of the leading systems aren't exactly known for their openness to external APIs... Maybe Google Cardboard is worth a revisit :)

fheisler··on Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
I shack you for noticing :o)
fheisler··on Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
Pretty well from my limited testing! For standing poses, it works roughly as well as a human in good lighting and contrast conditions - as in, in situations where you would have a hard time picking out where limbs are, Mediapipe will too. The more common issue is poor lighting, or clothing that blends into a busy background.
fheisler··on Show HN: CheekyKeys – A Face-Controlled Keyboard
My original version used blinking for all the Morse code, but then the entire typing process was basically this experience :D
fheisler··on Show HN: CheekyKeys – A Face-Controlled Keyboard
As an 'unnatural' scroller, yes! And you could always swap the two lines to customize it: https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys/blob/master...
fheisler··on Show HN: CheekyKeys – A Face-Controlled Keyboard
Thank you!
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Yes, hoping to do something along these lines for a future update! I'm not sure if it would be individual notes/chords per motion, or something based on samples and a looper. If anyone knows of related projects, I'd love to get some ideas for inspiration.
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
My face-computer interface is probably a better bet if you're working with fewer than four limbs but have full facial control: https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys

The next version will be more customizable, so you can create whatever gestures you'd prefer with whatever means at your disposal!

fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
I've got some musical + basic audio background and would love to turn this into a musical instrument or sample generator, just haven't worked out the best way to translate motion to sound yet. Any sound engineers or DJs who want to collaborate, reach out!
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
I tried that out! It was honestly hard to tell a difference, I'm already so bad at it...
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
I've seen lots of examples of interpreting sign language, but not general/customizable gestures. Should be very doable though!
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Hmm like a camera-based full-body theremin?
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Amazing! The spoken demo reminds me of Victor Borge's Phonetic Punctuation. This would be such a great way to spend so much time getting slightly more efficient...
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Thank you! Although TBF I only merged the pedantic README update :D
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
It's always going to be plenty of physical effort! In terms of the mental overhead: there are some letters/motions like R, F, D that just feel second-nature already from lots of practice and more 'obvious' positions, but I still have to think about most of them. A few letters still trip me up, like remembering M versus S (mirror images). I'd love to find a seasoned signalman to get their take.
fheisler··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
It honestly takes all my focus and concentration to remember the signals quickly. That's the look of 100% dedication to a silly task!
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