Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit

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• keepamovin 2 hours ago

  Why? Fun. Now every commit is a certified 160-bit prime number.

  - Miller-Rabin primality test (40 rounds, ~10^-24 false positive rate)

  - Fuzzes commit messages with nonces until finding a prime hash

  - Average ~368 attempts to find a prime (based on prime density at 2^160)

  - Actual performance: 30-120 seconds depending on luck

  The philosophy: shouldn't the global distributed compute grid be used to forward number theoretic random non-goals like primality?

  Every developer running git-prime contributes cycles to finding 160-bit primes hidden in SHA-1 space. Corporate pointless, but math & aesthets satisfying.

  Install:

    curl -fsSL https://textonly.github.io/git-prime/install.sh | bash
  

  or

    irm textonly.github.io/git-prime/install.ps1 | iex 
  

  on Win

  Then just run

    git prime-commit -m "my frickin commit message, etc..."

  Side note: disappointed that this Show's item ID is NOT prime. 46454369 = 13 × 3573413. Would've been perfect meta-content, ahah