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hydra

Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go.

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What it is

Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year36 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-05-29 20:26:48 UTC to 2025-11-11 09:18:46 UTC.

024682016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321

What Hacker News says

5 sources
vinckr·Aug 8, 2023
Hey Sytten, I work in the community team for Ory. OSS is actually very important for us and definitely not second class. (see also https://www.ory.sh/docs/open-source/commitment) The assumption that Ory does not offer support contracts for self-hosted Ory is wrong (although we did not in the past, when the team was smaller). We are doing contracts for companies using our software self-hosted: See here and contact us if you are interested! https://www.ory.sh/support/ This way we can assign engineers to your case and work on any issues you encounter or work on any contributions or features required. Ory releases all features for free for everyone to use. What is not free however is our time and work. To merge a PR/add a new feature/etc. a significant amount of time is needed to make sure the code lives up to standards, passes all tests,
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any security implications, etc. This depends on the feature of course, but the one you are alluding to is probably one of those. See the Code of Conduct on OSS support as well: https://github.com/ory/hydra/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md I hope that makes it clearer and feel free to reach out to me directly in the Ory Community on github or slack.
In Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB
aweheel·Apr 19, 2023
Congrats on the launch, building a product in this space is incredibly difficult. I took a look at the stack, here are a few observations: - "ISO certified secure auth": What does that mean? I could not find proof of your ISO certification. Can you please share? - 10k M2M tokens for $250/month sounds like a really bad deal if I can just spin up https://github.com/ory/hydra that can easily handle 10k requests per second. - Looks like you're using OAuth2 as the primary "login" and "session management". What compelled you to do this? - It looks like you're using some open source technology under the hood for the OAuth2 flows - which one are you using (out of curiosity)? And finally, what sets you apart? It looks like the same solution for the known problem that big players (such as Okta and Auth0 - publicly traded) have already mastered. Ory
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(github.com/ory) for example has it's global network approach where you no longer need datacenter locations and is Open Source. Clerk is targeting React devs. What's your niche? Doing everything from auth to billing is, in my experience, way too much for a small team with little resources. Just getting Auth right is a mammoth task.
In Show HN: Kinde – auth, feature flags and billing (Q3) in one integration

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