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Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get Robots.txt Compliance Tool → | tags: amazonbot, robots.txt, anubis

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When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | by Math Behind Security | get Hash Collision Debugger Tool → | tags: birthday paradox, hash collisions, probability

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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | tags: anubis, hashcash, proof-of-work

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60% of MD5 Password Hashes Are Crackable In Under an Hour (slashdot.org)

2026-05-07 | get Hashcat Password Cracker → | tags: md5, password hashes, fermat's theorem

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GitHub 'No Longer a Place For Serious Work', Says Hashicorp Co-Founder (slashdot.org)

2026-04-29 | get GitHub Pro Subscription → | tags: github, hashicorp, elasticsearch

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HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-29 | by Simon Sharwood | get HashiCorp Terraform Cloud → | tags: github, hashicorp, hashimoto

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Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | get NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: parameters, computation, transformers

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Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | by Shaurya Malwa | get Antminer S19 Pro → | tags: bitcoin, mining, network difficulty

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Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-11 | by Aaron Klotz | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 → | tags: nvidia h200, amd mi300x, rtx 5090

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British cryptographer Adam Back denies NYT report that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-08 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: satoshi nakamoto, adam back, hashcash

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British cryptographer Adam Back is the secret creator of Bitcoin, claims new report — Back refutes investigation, says parallels to Satoshi are just a coincidence (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-08 | by Hassam Nasir | get Bitcoin T-Shirt → | tags: satoshi nakamoto, adam back, hashcash

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Is a $30,000 GPU Good at Password Cracking? (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-08 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia h200, amd mi300x, nvidia rtx 5090

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Bitcoin network has its first quarterly hashrate drop since 2020 — Iran conflict spurs Bitcoin mining operators to accelerate pivot to AI infrastructure (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-31 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Antminer S19 Pro → | tags: bitcoin, hashrate, iran

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We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-27 | get SHA-256 Hardware Wallet → | tags: sha-256, collision attack, cryptography

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Tired of Ghost Positions in Companies? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get Employee Monitoring Software → | tags: ghost positions, anonymous complaints, one-way hash

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Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-22 | get MapReduce → | tags: sync map, hash trie, rust

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The Pitt has a sharp take on AI (theverge.com)

2026-02-19 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | get Smartphone → | tags: al hashimi, hashimi, medical

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Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-05 | get H3 Indexes → | tags: cell, countries, hash

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How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-05 | get H3 Tree → | tags: cell, countries, hash

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Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | get Substack → | tags: certain, hash, stored

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To Pressure Security Professionals, Mandiant Releases Database That Cracks Weak NTLM Passwords in 12 Hours (slashdot.org)

2026-01-17 | by Posted | get NTLM password crackers → | tags: allow, hash, mandiant

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There's no single best way to store information (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Ben Brubaker | get Data Storage → | tags: bins, books, hash

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Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Ben Brubaker | get Database → | tags: bins, books, hash

24.

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-16 | get Tablet → | tags: dataset, hash, known

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Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-16 | get Password Cracker → | tags: hash, mandiant, passwords

26.

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-30 | get Dental Implants → | tags: bones, human, similar

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Concurrent Hash Table Designs (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-27 | by Donghyung Ko | get Database → | tags: hash, lock, null

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NYPD Sued Over Possible Records Collected Through Muslim Spying Program (wired.com)

2025-12-23 | by Ali Winston | get Surveillance System → | tags: hashmi, intelligence, new york

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Instagram wants to limit hashtag spam (theverge.com)

2025-12-18 | by Jay Peters | get Instagram Algorithm → | tags: hashtags, instagram, list

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Gh-actions-lockfile: generate and verify lockfiles for GitHub Actions (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | get GitHub Actions Lockfile → | tags: action, actions, answers