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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.

36 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 8 stories, 28 comments · first 2016-05-29 · latest 2025-11-11

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  1. …issues are hidden beneath the surface. Not even Claude knows! There is very reliable tooling like https://github.com/ory/hydra readily available that has gone through years of iteration and pentests. There are also lots of libraries - even…
    comment by aeneas_ory · 2025-06-03 · in Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
  2. …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…
    comment by vinckr · 2023-08-08 · in Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB
  3. > 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. Spinning one up is easy, sure. Making sure it's production ready, is not so…
    comment by lapser · 2023-04-19 · in Show HN: Kinde – auth, feature flags and billing (Q3) in one integration
  4. …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…
    comment by aweheel · 2023-04-19 · in Show HN: Kinde – auth, feature flags and billing (Q3) in one integration
  5. …need the OAuth server, its a bit much in my opinion. Have not tried Dex so can't speak to that. https://github.com/ory/hydra https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
    comment by Lacerda69 · 2023-03-28 · in Tailscale – Introducing Custom OIDC
  6. Victor, congratulations on the launch! I am one of the maintainers at https://github.com/ory/hydra and it makes me super happy to see that Ory Hydra is being used for such innovative projects :) If you’re interested to join Ory, we’d be…
    comment by Visayer · 2022-01-13 · in Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially)
  7. …whatever you define them to be. Check out https://github.com/ory/kratos , our identity server. Or https://github.com/ory/hydra , our OAuth2 server. All of them together can be assembled to have something like Keycloak.
    comment by neupatr · 2021-04-08 · in Ory Keto, open source authorization server based on Google Zanzibar
  8. …But if you do don’t roll your own but use proven open source like https://github.com/ory/hydra
    comment by vwpolo3 · 2021-03-27 · in OAuth 2.0 Authentication Vulnerabilities
  9. …[1]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa [2]: https://gluu.org/docs/gluu-server/4.2/ [3]: https://github.com/ory/hydra#what-is-ory-hydra [4]: https://keratin.github.io/authn-server/ [5]: https://github.com/tremolosecurity/openunison [6]:…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-03-10 · in Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO
  10. …OpenID Connect Provider that you "connect" to your user management (e.g. Ory Kratos) - Ory Hydra: http://github.com/ory/hydra - A "middleware" which checks if requests are authenticated (who is the caller?) and authorized (is the caller…
    comment by _hackerman · 2021-01-13 · in Ory Hydra 1.9: Open-source Golang OAuth2 provider
  11. Don't implement your own, there's tons of open source that can do that, for example https://github.com/ory/hydra
    comment by vwpolo3 · 2020-05-05 · in OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice
  12. Running an OAuth2 server isn't tremendously involved. There are good open-source projects like https://github.com/ory/hydra that are pretty easy to configure.
    comment by YawningAngel · 2020-01-15 · in How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service
  13. …fun / etc. And if you don't care for the Microsoft ecosystem, I've heard nice things about Hydra https://github.com/ory/hydra which is a similar Go offering.
    comment by blyat · 2020-01-09 · in Ask HN: How many of you are rolling your own auth?
  14. I initially thought this was post for https://github.com/ory/hydra
    comment by saadshamim · 2019-10-12 · in Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications
  15. May be worth checking out https://github.com/ory/hydra and related projects by ory
    comment by matdehaast · 2019-09-02 · in A guide to Oauth2
  16. Ory Hydra https://github.com/ory/hydra Open source OAuth / OpenID connect server The docs, API and Docker images make it really easy to start developing against. Then the Docker images and database migration tools make it easy to deploy…
    comment by nzoschke · 2018-12-27 · in Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?
  17. …to a e.g. JWT) and either grants or denies access. Other services include, for example, ORY Hydra ( https://github.com/ory/hydra ) which is an OAuth2 & OpenID Connect (certification pending) server that you can put "on top" of your…
    comment by ibuildoss · 2018-07-11 · in Show HN: Oathkeeper – Cloud-Native Identity and Access Proxy
  18. …to the full thing, and address many issues raised in the comments. -> OAuth2 Authorization Server https://github.com/ory/hydra -> Identity & Access Proxy (early access): https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper If you have questions don't…
    comment by arekkas · 2018-01-22 · in BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access
  19. As the author of a pluggable OAuth2 & OIDC Provider ( https://github.com/ory/hydra ) I am looking for an OSS IDP that solves just ID management. Is there a URL where I can expect this to land?
    comment by arekkas · 2017-12-13 · in AWS Single Sign-On
  20. …be great, thanks! Here are the links to the projects I mentioned. https://github.com/coreos/dex https://github.com/ory/hydra
    comment by krullie · 2017-11-08 · in Show HN: Keratin AuthN – Accounts and Auth Microservice in Go
  21. …Hydra does not (and will not) support the resource owner password credentials (ROPC) grant ( https://github.com/ory/hydra/pull/297#issuecomment-294282671 ) I'm no security expert, but to my understanding the ROPC grant makes sense for…
    comment by ernsheong · 2017-09-05 · in Run your own OAuth2 server
  22. …but not yet for secrets (it only rejects secrets that are too short). I've tracked this here: https://github.com/ory/hydra/issues/573
    comment by machete143 · 2017-09-04 · in Run your own OAuth2 server
  23. …reading the article itself and want to check out the technology first, here's the link to github: https://github.com/ory/hydra If you have any questions, feel free to ask ahead.
    comment by machete143 · 2017-09-04 · in Run your own OAuth2 server
  24. I make over 700$ per month through patreon for my open source work, primarily https://github.com/ory/hydra . Hydra started as a side project for a work-for-hire project. After getting bashed by people for it being trash (it was, mostly due…
    comment by arekkas · 2017-09-01 · in Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell
  25. …makes some really cool stuff for OAuth / Authorization that we are considering using in our stack. https://github.com/ory/hydra https://github.com/ory/ladon https://github.com/ory/fosite
    comment by kminehart · 2017-05-25 · in Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux
  26. …Could you share some scenarios? I'd love to improve the managibility of policies :) The hydra ( http://github.com/ory/hydra ) project for example has groups, which allow you to set e.g. an admin group and then assign people to it. I think…
    comment by golangman · 2017-03-18 · in Show HN: A Go Library for Better Access Control
  27. There's also Hydra, which looks pretty easy to deploy (fyi: I haven't used it): https://github.com/ory-am/hydra ).
    comment by spangry · 2016-12-08 · in OAuth vs. SAML vs. OpenID Connect
  28. That's why I wrote https://github.com/ory-am/hydra
    comment by arekkas · 2016-11-13 · in OAuth 2.0 Hack Exposes 1B Mobile Apps to Account Hijacking