Why “autofill” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
They are 100% immune to credentials phishing. You literally cannot authenticate to an impersonator site based on cryptographic guarantees. And yes, I know the happy path of pass…
by qlte · Sep 19, 2026
> Although operating systems have recently introduced APIs [...] for third-party tools to hook into, the experience remains fragmented and lacks the decades of UX polish towards…
by nbobko · Sep 18, 2026
> I love not needing to deal with 1Password's autofill being flakey and having to CMD-C/CMD-V passwords/passphrases/OTPs on these sites. But that requires that we…
by spider-mario · Sep 18, 2026
Sony Playstation will only let you setup a passkey if you disable password auth. But I have not found any way to use my browser's passkey to login on my PS5. I can scan a QR cod…
by radlad · Sep 18, 2026
I find it annoying that so many apps and websites push passkeys onto users without informing them the basics of passkeys, including how it's associated with those specific devic…
by fg137 · Sep 18, 2026
> Since they are bound to the site they are created for, they cannot be phished by a hacker’s fake login screen. With the app you use to store those keys (a password/key ma…
by eviks · Sep 18, 2026
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Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing. In Android and iOS smartphones, this is called predictive text. In graphical user interfaces, users can typically press the tab key to accept a suggestion or the down arrow key to accept one of several. Read more on Wikipedia