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Re:Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest Hash by SushiHippie on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:18AM (#40690305)
Oh I didn't notice, I've written something so it automatically submits if it's a better value haha.

Yep, crazy how long it took, but currently I'm also running multiple 'variants'. All the same program except the nonce generation, one with numbers, one with 32 character long 'base64' and one with 64 character long 'base64'. I got inspired by seletskiy who instead of using numbers used the whole allowed character set for the nonce.

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Re:Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest Hash by playingalong on Saturday June 15, 2024 @03:50PM (#40692261)
Why would the selection of characters matter? (Other than making sure you try distinct input strings)
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Re:Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest Hash by SushiHippie on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:50PM (#40693290)
It doesn't but I'm going sequential, so I needed different character sets for each instance I launched.
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