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Show HN: You don't forget password, You just forget pattern
- kingname 7mo agoLike most of you, I've lost count of how many times I've gone through this loop: try my usual password → "must contain a special character" → try again → "cannot be the same as your last 3 passwords" → give up and reset. The irony is that every website already has these composition rules — they just don't show them until you fail. So I built a Chrome extension that surfaces the password requirements directly below the input field before you start typing. How it works: * Detects password fields automatically on any website * Looks up the site's password rules from a community-maintained database * Displays min/max length, required character types, special character restrictions, etc. as a small card below the input The extension never reads, stores, or transmits your actual passwords. It only displays publicly available composition rules. No account required, no tracking — just an anonymous ID to prevent spam contributions. The rule database currently covers 30+ major sites (Chase, Google, Microsoft, etc.) and is fully community-driven — anyone can contribute missing rules. The whole thing is open source. I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially: Sites you'd want covered that aren't in the database yet Ideas for detecting password rules automatically (scraping help text, etc.) Whether this is something you'd actually install GitHub: https://github.com/kingname/dont-reset-password https://github.com/kingname/dont-reset-password Landing page: https://drp.kingname.info https://drp.kingname.info