[HN Gopher] Amulet - a short poem with a lucky SHA-256 hash
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Amulet - a short poem with a lucky SHA-256 hash
Author : simonpure
Score : 42 points
Date : 2021-04-27 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (text.bargains)
(TXT) w3m dump (text.bargains)
| berniemadoff69 wrote:
| warning, this site includes an extremely loud mp3 [0] that plays
| automatically without warning and is very startling
|
| [0] https://text.bargains/media/coin.mp3
| echelon wrote:
| It didn't play for me, but this is fantastic and brings me back
| to the 90's / early 00's era of web design with midis and sound
| effects. I miss that web.
|
| Music and sound effects add to the mood and aesthetic of
| presentation. It's not so strange, either. TikTok leans on it
| heavily and people are loving it.
|
| I want a return to sound on the web.
| berniemadoff69 wrote:
| my complaint isn't with sound on the web. my complaint is
| with there being a 'screamer' on the site.
| jakeogh wrote:
| Web browser bug that it's even possible.
| tyingq wrote:
| The 6 byte string "dammit" works. Though I suppose it's not a
| poem.
| tantalor wrote:
| This page has a bunch of examples:
|
| https://text.bargains/scratchpad/
| p1mrx wrote:
| This concept is philosophically interesting, because an
| infinitely-powerful deity could compose text with a hash value of
| all 8's, and anyone could verify that it was authored by someone
| with more computing power than the universe.
|
| The fact that this is possible, but hasn't happened, may imply
| that we have never received a message from such an entity.
| Closi wrote:
| I doubt that is possible with the 64 byte limit (at least
| making something that makes sense to read as a poem, as per the
| challenge).
| tedunangst wrote:
| There's something like 2^59 64 byte strings that hash to all
| 8s. (Er, 2^168? Math is hard.)
| Closi wrote:
| But how many of those strings consist entirely of sensical
| prose?
| Y_Y wrote:
| This seems like a job for hashcat.
| SquibblesRedux wrote:
| Optimization (for any attribute) is left as an exercise for the
| reader. #!/bin/bash while true ; do
| W1=`shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words` W2=`shuf -n 1
| /usr/share/dict/words` W3=`shuf -n 1
| /usr/share/dict/words` W4=`shuf -n 1
| /usr/share/dict/words` W5=`shuf -n 1
| /usr/share/dict/words` SHA=`echo "$W1 $W2 $W3 $W4 $W5" |
| sha256sum | egrep 8888` if [ "$SHA" != "" ] ; then
| echo "$SHA $W1 $W2 $W3 $W4 $W5" fi done
|
| Sample output:
| 00b6b668465deadabf11d7296e7de33780643e23c967e255888884f34ecc41de
| - frigorifical psittaceous goodeniaceous oostegite handsomeish
| b3096654fa38ca318888b2c4eea4a9d93b9e49b02c54f390d2f06ca74d9e8edb
| - refuser skepful assumptive hypostatic toothleted
| ef3a7d3b25a8cffe730b888800884ddde96ea7e58608c8bd714b5db7a5caf3fb
| - coenobioid graticulation astrognosy remica swarthily
| c8888957c0105b6ea64b24853ec6c1a34828c0552c2776b6a4bd35d6129c3b87
| - barbarously withinside underwing autocratic punkah
| 5ca89be465ab472eea785ab950ea28ce03457a09d1fecd2bc75b88888c269e5d
| - Malay persuade truantlike binodose suppose
| 20bdbfcdb6345888814555c2d0abeaa2f2b7c81506a661c99f7c2675688d4917
| - dorsimedian seasonably cuckoo eyewinker hyperthyroidization
| 337675d56afb73835c58888f509de783a9385e3f249784d50b9a3e50c6a68a77
| - squamous calp choosingly velum forborne
| e08888a15d449e8c2dab2283d53adfa5b1bfc7fe99ccd0fd7bbe45a4ce9b0bdb
| - equipartition creatininemia treaclewort Menobranchus
| undisturbedness
| esnard wrote:
| Here is a mythic one:
|
| > 29560568 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.
| chrisshroba wrote:
| This Twitter bot tweets any that are verified by the verifier
| smart contract on the Ethereum chain:
| https://twitter.com/WildAmulet
| fxtentacle wrote:
| Hello HackerNews from fxtentacle !!1!!!!1!111!!11!!!11!!1
|
| 2c27e38aaba003380ea55c4c674aa2f3f17743481c107dc388888884a689353b
|
| This is an epic amulet!
| dangom wrote:
| How did they compute the SHA-256 of the example given? If I try
| it I don't get the 8888s
| esnard wrote:
| The article links to https://text.bargains/scratchpad/ which
| matches my own hashes, so I'm not sure why it's not working for
| you.
| airstrike wrote:
| `All Play And No Work Makes Jack A Rich Boy` is a common amulet
| d978352a5d57437fa1c8388f428888a5d3c6bd1d0a4c1726e21113414805694a
| ----
| snypher wrote:
| 'I wonder if there's any chance of finding one just by typi' is
| my uncommon ('...dc28888858...')
| 2iP1zbR wrote:
| i should probs be working Lmfao
|
| you can cheat by adding trailing spaces
| contravariant wrote:
| > In particular, an amulet's whitespace, punctuation, and
| diacritics should all be "load bearing".
| chrisshroba wrote:
| It would be nice if it only considered alphanumerics.
| Downside: punctuation can mean a lot in poetry. Upside:
| people might make punctuation _less_ meaningful just to have
| more strings to try.
| SquibblesRedux wrote:
| One more amulet generator, for the road...
| #!/bin/bash COUNT=1 while true ; do
| COUNT=$((COUNT+1)) SHA=`echo "I adopted $COUNT puppies."
| | sha256sum | egrep 8888` if [ "$SHA" != "" ] ; then
| echo "$SHA I adopted $COUNT puppies." fi done
|
| Sample output:
| 4f3e14ded07eda16a7fb57c42aebf1f97ef67acba4980bf472a8e188887c7726
| - I adopted 6484 puppies.
| 57c3e9fd05f06a705206d38888b317b5eb596d35c6f308b909a440e2c8e391c8
| - I adopted 6627 puppies.
| 4624f6bb4c7d3d8328888495c1422a1891b609b81abda3ff4d70bedd1c4f6cdd
| - I adopted 12631 puppies.
| 9c0be05548139888804d3799ad5729ea424b0487487a6b18803f1aa5746c1904
| - I adopted 15663 puppies.
| c60fc3f97f62ee07665325e235faa05fefc445aee7d356a9d81f58888c475147
| - I adopted 15861 puppies.
|
| Bonus points if the number of puppies adopted is a palindromic
| prime. [1]
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindromic_prime
| Closi wrote:
| My attempt at one: https://pastebin.com/SEEpx3C4
|
| > Hello Hackernews, This is one. Whats so tough?
|
| 47d751f8964d717320b888888b81db0a8a35e79f528549f0e9dba13e0e4d6c4c
|
| (In short, allowing all unicode characters makes this trivially
| easy... HN gets rid of some of the unicode weirdness though so I
| had to put it on Pastebin. I assume this matches the 'load
| bearing' criteria as I only use variable width spaces rather than
| additional characters.)
|
| Not putting it on the blockchain though because I don't hate the
| planet.
| slaymaker1907 wrote:
| Holy smokes, these things generate a ton of CO2 if it takes a
| metric ton to store indefinitely on the blockchain.
|
| That's apparently 1/5-1/8 the CO2 of RUNNING AN ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD
| FOR A YEAR.
|
| https://www.whatitcosts.com/carbon-offsets-cost-prices/
|
| The only way I see this as not being terrible is if the offset is
| much less bad on a yearly basis.
|
| This also seems to be hundreds of times more CO2 than the average
| US internet user uses in a year.
|
| https://www.energuide.be/en/questions-answers/do-i-emit-co2-...
| xXx_uwu_xXx wrote:
| > A mullet
| d023069c25bf838888b73a8f135a8bd125be3f7081edbe8a32466e93a333dd38
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