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carl_dr on April 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amulet – a short poem with a lucky SHA-256 hash

"I minted 4746440866 amulets" to find the ??? (10 eights) 763db5a46ea69a5d88888888880e33ba48eddc4a11d4597eaf2833aac4b5c667

This has been an interesting exercise in threading and optimisation.

My first version of this was Ruby, then moved to C, then optimised it, then added pthreads. It's now running on a 16-core server I had sitting idle.

carl_dr on April 28, 2021 [–]

a3c70168c3488888888888eb265282b11afd40ead6e6a09256f50f57d82644bb - 11 eights.

“I minted 382672219950 amulets” to get that.

carl_dr on May 7, 2021 | [–]

853890f18ce8c62c465ae88888888888841538c5d5af35d5077a6e79f04a3c5d - 12 eights.

"I minted 3843483787745 amulets" to get that.

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