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Re:Show HN: Reverse engineering GitHub's identicon algorithm by IshKebab on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:46AM (#30820630)
I mean, if you're relying on enumerating every user why reverse anything? Just generate all of their identicons.
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Re:Show HN: Reverse engineering GitHub's identicon algorithm by kshvmdn on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:49PM (#30821718)
Yeah, fair point. I think I was more curious in seeing if there was a way to find ids that map to a specific avatar.
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