Beat the Hash
beatthehash.com

I stumbled across this site. It’s a kind of guessing game where you try to guess what the original content of a hash value is. Guesses are hashed and then scored by counting how many bits are different from the target hash so a random guess ought to be 512 or so. You’re probably supposed to write a program to do the guessing for you.

Only your lowest score is kept. Can you beat the hash?

Disclaimer: not my site but I’m in love with the idea

  • QuantumTickle@lemmy.zipOP
    2·
    18 days ago

    Sure it doesn’t guide you to guesses that are closer and closer to the original, but that’s not the point. If I understand Randall’s original intent, he wanted a a random school so he could use a university in a comic and this sounds like it would have been a fun competition back before the comic solidified.