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TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
1•cwwc•1m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•2m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•4m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•4m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•6m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•6m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•7m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•7m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•9m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•13m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•18m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

1•fud101•19m ago•1 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•20m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
1•petethomas•21m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•22m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•26m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•31m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•31m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
3•todsacerdoti•32m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•33m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•35m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•37m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
2•tzury•39m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•41m ago•0 comments

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•kermatt•43m ago•0 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
3•RebelPotato•47m ago•0 comments

Dorsey's Block cutting up to 10% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/business/dorseys-block-cutting-up-10-staff-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-02...
2•dev_tty01•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freenet Lives – Real-Time Decentralized Apps at Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxNBz1VTE0
1•sanity•51m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Time needed to factor large integers

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/30/time-needed-to-factor-large-integers/
18•ibobev•4mo ago

Comments

charcircuit•4mo ago
Using a lookup table to factor numbers is a faster algorithm and has complexity O(1).
cipehr•4mo ago
Faster than what? Are you factoring in the time to build the lookup table for primes greater than a google?
charcircuit•4mo ago
Faster than exp(((64/9)^1/3 + o(1))*((log n)^1/3 (log log n)^2/3)). The time building the table is not counted as that happens ahead of time.
nine_k•4mo ago
The idea is to do it once. A lot can likely be compressed, while keeping access time log-linear. Store it passively, so that it won't need power except for reading, like mask ROM or CD-ROM do not.
mikewarot•4mo ago
Ok, where are you going to keep those yottabytes of tables?
sunrunner•4mo ago
Chainsaws? ICMP echo? Tetris? There are a lot of options for storage available that we're really not making good use of at the moment. [1]

[1] http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf

charcircuit•4mo ago
In memory. The abstract machine typically has infinite memory.
jerf•4mo ago
By the prime counting function, there are about (2^4096)/ln(2^4096), or close enough to 2^4085 prime numbers under 2^4096, which is close enough to 10^1360 to not sweat the piddly factors that may be off by.

I'd tell you to "go ahead and start computing that and tell me when you're done", however, I like the universe I live in, and the entire information content of the boundary of the observable universe is something like 4*10^122 bits [1]. So you're talking about creating a black hole vastly, vastly, vastly, 10-to-the-power-of-thousand+ times larger than the observable universe, which some of your fellow universe residents may find to be a hostile act and we probably aren't going to let you finish.

While you can define such a table as having "O(1)" lookup properties in the sense that on average the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, dwarfing-the-observable-universe-by-hundreds-of-orders-of-magnitude light years you'd have to travel for the answer to a given query can be considered "O(1)" since it's on average pretty much the same for all lookups, it's constant in a rather useless sense.

[1]: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information.html

charcircuit•4mo ago
The great thing about math is that we can prove things without needing to physically construct them.
CodesInChaos•4mo ago
No cryptographer cares about time-complexity on its own. Even the naive asymptotic cost-model is `t * (P + M)`, where P is the number of processors and M the amount of memory (including ROM/code-size). And a more serious cost-model is `t * A` where A is the chip area (~transistor count). This considers less obvious costs, like the size of the memory access circuitry, which can be substantial when you have a large number of parallel processors.

In any of these models the time would be multiplied with the size of the lookup table, resulting in a cost much higher that number-field-sieve.

Plus you need to consider the (amortized) cost of populating the lookup table.

DoctorOetker•4mo ago
It can depend on your exact definition of "broken", for example do you consider unpublished breaks resulting in "broken" or not?

> RSA encryption is not broken by factoring keys but by exploiting implementation flaws.

> Factoring a 2048-bit RSA key would require more energy than the world produces in a year, as explained here.

The above should probably contain some caveat's like "Assuming a GNFS attacker, ..." or "ignoring hypothetical non-public mathematical breakthroughs"