The version of news.arc last shipped from arclanguage.org hashes the passwords (I'm not sure what exactly it uses), and that's very old. pg and rtm might've changed it since. I highly doubt that HN ever stored passwords plain text, especially considering who rtm is.
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Doesn't ycombinator still store passwords in plain text?
Or has that been fixed now?
The version of news.arc last shipped from arclanguage.org hashes the passwords (I'm not sure what exactly it uses), and that's very old. pg and rtm might've changed it since. I highly doubt that HN ever stored passwords plain text, especially considering who rtm is.
HN uses bcrypt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099563