If you didn't know that BLAKE was one of the entries in the SHA3 competition (one of the finalists in fact), I think you are out of your depth.
Furthermore, the way you conduct yourself in these posts isn't exactly helpful. You're condescending and terse. Your comments contain the bare minimum information (or in the case of this latest exchange, no useful information what-so-ever) and it feels very much like you're more interested in winning ego points than you are in educating someone who could clearly benefit from your greater wisdom. Which is sad because without that exchange of knowledge, these kinds of threads will keep happening.
edit: that said, I did appreciate your comment about hardware vs software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10012537 so thank you for that post :)
The "digging deeper" was more down to responding to other people who had misunderstood my original comment. And lets be honest, there has been a lot of that as well.
edit: oh jeez, someone's been on the rampage with the ▾ clicking. I think it's time I get HN a break because the moderation on here has really been bugging me in recent months. I know it's a tired cliche, but I'm sure this community used to be less hostile. </soliloque>
I very much doubt that since I've been able to provide back up sources to evidence my points. However if I am wrong then please do educate me instead of posting uninformative troll comments like the above.