Welcome to hackint!

hackint is a communication network for the hacker community, but anyone is welcome to use its services. We are fully ircv3.1 and partially ircv3.2 compliant.

News

2025/10/23 Friendship with /msg NickServ identify ended. Now SASL PLAIN is your new best friend.

We are deprecating in-band authentication with NickServ through the IDENTIFY command starting today.

From 2026-02-01 the only supported authentication methods will be: SASL PLAIN, SASL EXTERNAL, SASL SCRAM-SHA-256, CertFP.

The rough list of reasons are that it is an outdated, insecure, and user-unfriendly way to transmit your credentials.

• Logging in only happens once you are connected, which can lead to races with room permissions
• Time and time again people have posted their credentials onto public channels
• Credentials tend to get stored in your client logs

Clients have a dedicated place to store your credentails these days

We recommend making this migration early, especially if you run a channel and depend on permissions handed out by the services.

2024/10/30 Webchat replacement

We are replacing KiwiIRC, the software that powers our webchat. Starting now, The lounge will be available at chat.hackint.org.

Check out our documentation.

News Archive

Older news can be found in the archive.