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Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for algorithm
- ColinWright 8y agoThe original Wired article is here: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge/ https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge/ That was submitted here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952882
- FatDrunknStupid 8y agoThis is the kind of quality journo we expect from Wired now they are paywalled? Bye bye Wired.
- sctb 8y agoAlright, we've moved the comments there.
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- teh_infallible 8y agoRelated concept: I’ve long suspected that an ulterior motive behind bitcoin is to generate data needed to crack the SHA256 algorithm.
- votepaunchy 8y agoSHA256 hashes can be computed faster than line speed.
- dogma1138 8y agoBut bitcoin gives an incentive I don’t believe that this is true even remotely but I can see how you can make some sort of a conjecture off this.