Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by asfgjubiu on Sunday July 05, 2020 @08:21PM (#23743462)

I've worked on the same problem and came up with the same solution. My password was "Teapot Dome" from 2016-2018, and it's been "Cottage Cheese" since then. I have just come up with a new password, which I obviously won't share.

This solution doesn't actually work. Maybe the people are mind readers rather than time travelers. Maybe they beat the password out of you and then wiped your memory. Maybe they are time travelers, but it's like Groundhog's Day rather than Back to the Future and they've guessed ten billion passwords until getting it right. Maybe they have an Infinite Improbability Drive and just got really lucky.

Your test can prove that something funky is going on. It can't prove that the something funky is time travel.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by mmazing on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:58AM (#23745393)

Also, let's presume that some dinosaurs in the past were really smart, and evolved some thinking skills before the asteroid wiped them all out.

They just so happened to evolve the same scheme. How do you prove to them that you're from the future?

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by sean2 on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:24AM (#23745522)

I climb back into my cardboard box (with "time machine" scrawled on the side); jump forward 1 year, ask them what last year's temporal password was; go back one year and tell them.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by sameerds on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:02AM (#23748651)

Did it work?

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