Hacker News: vjay15

New comment by vjay15 in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

vjay15 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:23:35 +0000

Omg, we can access even ancient OSes, this is amazing!

New comment by vjay15 in "State of Kdenlive"

vjay15 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:04:45 +0000

kdenlive is really good

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:47:06 +0000

but api keys arent meant to be revoked once used right?

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:00:41 +0000

Yes, it's just a random long password used to access public APIs

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:59:43 +0000

OHHH that makes sense!

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:27:49 +0000

no this is just a POC, I haven't implemented any of it

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:53:09 +0000

Ideally API key shouldn't contain anything regarding the account or any info right? it's meant to be an opaque string, is what I found in most of the other articles I read. Please do let me know if I am wrong about this assumption

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:36:19 +0000

fixed it in the blog, thanks for pointing it out amelius ;-;

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:26:37 +0000

yes, you are right onei, it is supposed to be random string instead of hex, I am sorry I made that mistake

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:21:52 +0000

hash of the API key just like passwords

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:08:07 +0000

if not for typo, then I can use for secret scanning then :)

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:07:21 +0000

It is alright, I am learning a lot from them as well, healthy criticism is always useful :) I am very glad that you found this a great write up ^_^

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:45:15 +0000

I can't understand what you are trying to say :o

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:44:29 +0000

I don't understand your question :o

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:28:24 +0000

I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE IN THE MAIN PAGE OF HACKERNEWS THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS (╥﹏╥)

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:18:19 +0000

it's just an added benefit, I don't have to make a DB call to verify that :)

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:17:06 +0000

yea... sorry I still am not the best explainer but that is the approach, I just wanted to have a shorter hash in the meta shard that is it. The approach 3 is an attempt by me to generate my own base62/base70 encoder ;-;

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:15:07 +0000

Ahhhh I see, I didn't think about it that way too, this could help us a lot yea!!!

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:14:22 +0000

yes this is the approach!

New comment by vjay15 in "My adventure in designing API keys"

vjay15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:13:23 +0000

thank you so much ram chip :) I didnt know that!