Why Hasn't Hacker News Implemented TOTP for 2FA Yet?

  • Low stakes and friendly moderators you can email in case of trouble?

  • what is being "secured". Is there a hacker news bank I don't know about?

  • Any forum type site that needs one time passwords or 2FA is obviously too secretive an area for the like of myself to be posting.

  • I would honestly expect the HN crowd to be using long complex passwords. That's probably sufficient for this type of site. I guess only dang could say if HN has been having challenges with account take-overs. I never hear about it. I would not mind having the option to restrict my login to a CIDR block however. I am personally not a fan of adding third party authentication unless it is entirely self hosted and the code is reviewed by teams like NCC.

    For banks and some DNS registrars I use IP restrictions in addition to whatever 2FA usually SMS they support along with challenge questions. Additionally for banks I make most of my accounts read-only from the internet. IP restrictions are a feature their support team dislike as many people think they have a static IP when they do not.