I can confirm that there was a technical change on HN today that affected other browsers. I have been just turning on my browser (Chrome running on Windoze) and

I can confirm that there was a technical change on HN today that affected other browsers. I have been just turning on my browser (Chrome running on Windoze) and coming over to HN already logged in for months now. Just today I had to log in again, which because HN's new emailed link for password updates allowed me to specify a password, has let me choose a memorable password specific to HN. (The former way HN updated passwords by email was to send a new, random password to my email address, as for example when I logged in via a different computer without an HN cookie set.) So far, so good.