diff --git a/assets/scripts.js b/assets/scripts.js
index 55c06c7..daa47ae 100644
--- a/assets/scripts.js
+++ b/assets/scripts.js
@@ -493,9 +493,25 @@ async function verifyProof(url, fingerprint) {
                 output.isVerified = true;
             }
         } catch (e) {
-        } finally {
-            return output;
         }
+
+        if(output.isVerified == false) {
+            output.proofUrlFetch = `/server/verifyHackerNews.php?user=${match[1]}&fp=${fingerprint}`;
+            try {
+                response = await fetch(output.proofUrlFetch, {
+                    headers: {
+                        Accept: 'application/json'
+                    },
+                    credentials: 'omit'
+                });
+                if (!response.ok) {
+                    throw new Error('Response failed: ' + response.status);
+                }
+                json = await response.json();
+                output.isVerified = json.verified;
+            } catch (e) { }
+        }
+        return output;
     }
     // dev.to
     if (/^https:\/\/dev\.to\//.test(url)) {
diff --git a/server/verifyHackerNews.php b/server/verifyHackerNews.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfa9089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/verifyHackerNews.php
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?php
+
+$fingerprint = urlencode($_GET["fp"]);
+$user = urlencode($_GET["user"]);
+
+$url = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/$user.json";
+$check = "\[Verifying my OpenPGP key: openpgp4fpr:$fingerprint\]";
+
+$ch = curl_init();
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+$result = curl_exec($ch);
+curl_close($ch);
+$data = json_decode($result, true);
+
+$response = array();
+$response["verified"] = false;
+$response["fingerprint"] = $fingerprint;
+$response["user"] = $user;
+
+if (preg_match("/{$check}/i", $data["about"])) {
+    $response["verified"] = true;
+}
+
+echo json_encode($response);
+
+?>