Initial Login Infrastructure

[Rahkeen]

This PR adds one core dependency and a bunch of infrastrucutre to support login and login-based actions.

Because HN doesn't have official API support for Login, Upvotes, Commenting, etc, the only way that clients can perform those actions is by requesting various web routes and scraping the HTML for data.

Added jsoup as a dependency to make working with HTML a lot nicer, as it also allows you to query HTML documents using CSS selectors.

Also created a WebClient which is reponsible for all things that require scraping the Hacker News website.

Lastly I CookieJar to our OkHttp client so that it can store the "auth cookie" when we successfully login. We need this cooking on all subsequent web client requests in order to get access to actions.

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2 builds increased size

Name	Version	Download	Change	Install	Change	Approval
:warning: Hacker News com.emergetools.hackernews.debug	1.0 (1)	10.1 MB	⬆️ 547.4 kB (5.71%)	29.4 MB	⬆️ 1.5 MB (5.2%)	N/A
:warning: Hacker News com.emergetools.hackernews	1.0 (1)	1.8 MB	⬆️ 291.6 kB (18.74%)	4.0 MB	⬆️ 640.1 kB (18.98%)	N/A

Hacker News 1.0 (1)
com.emergetools.hackernews.debug

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Total install size change: ⬆️ 1.5 MB (5.2%) Total download size change: ⬆️ 547.4 kB (5.71%)

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Item	Install Size Change	Download Size Change
📝 androidx.datastore.preferences.protobuf.MessageSchema	⬆️ 67.3 kB	⬆️ 23.8 kB
🗑 com.google.accompanist	⬇️ -33.0 kB	⬇️ -11.5 kB
📝 androidx.datastore.preferences.protobuf.BinaryReader$SafeHeapRead...	⬆️ 14.5 kB	⬆️ 5.1 kB
📝 org.jsoup.nodes.Element	⬆️ 14.0 kB	⬆️ 4.9 kB
📝 org.jsoup.parser.HtmlTreeBuilder	⬆️ 12.9 kB	⬆️ 4.6 kB

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Hacker News 1.0 (1)
com.emergetools.hackernews

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Total install size change: ⬆️ 640.1 kB (18.98%) Total download size change: ⬆️ 291.6 kB (18.74%)

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Item	Install Size Change	Download Size Change
📝 androidx.datastore.preferences.protobuf.MessageSchema	⬆️ 27.3 kB	⬆️ 12.4 kB
kotlin.text.CharsKt	⬇️ -18.8 kB	⬇️ -8.5 kB
📝 org.jsoup.Jsoup	⬆️ 18.2 kB	⬆️ 8.3 kB
📝 androidx.compose.foundation.text.BasicTextKt	⬆️ 14.4 kB	⬆️ 6.5 kB
📝 androidx.core.os.BundleKt	⬆️ 14.0 kB	⬆️ 6.4 kB

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📸 Snapshot Test

5 modified, 2 added, 17 unchanged

Name	Version	Added	Removed	Modified	Unchanged	Errored	Approval
Hacker News com.emergetools.hackernews.debug	1.0 (1)	2	0	5	17	0	✅ Approved

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Hacker News

Head build: Hacker News 1.0 (1) Base build: Hacker News 1.0 (1)

Name	Change	Comparison
⚠️ Startup (com.emerge.universaltests.EmergeUniversalStartupTest)	⬆️ 10.52%	🛸 View

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