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The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/

35•aburan28•1h ago

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MisterTea•41m ago

> Turns out memory can play tricks on everyone: we now know they were instead generated with the POSIX-standard drand48 random number generator.

Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.

john_strinlai•23m ago

it would have been beneficial to disclose the origin.

lying for obfuscation purposes makes zero sense given what we know now.

28571611•20m ago

"This helps fill out a page of cryptographic history, and reinforces our confidence in these critical cryptographic primitives."

Typical Valsorda. Even the Anthropic article states the timestamps could have been selected and the whole thing could be a "proof" that the NSA does not have a magic number up their sleeve.

mswphd•16m ago

why though? in particular if the NSA wanted to hide their nefarious intent here, why wouldn't they use something stronger than an LCG so the question for how they're generated remained open forever?

McGlockenshire•10m ago

What's more likely, the random calls were made at those times, or that someone changed the numbers to make it look like they were made at those times?

Only one of those requires a conspiracy theory-tainted brain to think up.

dang•16m ago

Related ongoing thread:

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 - Oct 2026 (91 comments)

Tesla Roadster

https://www.tesla.com/roadster

760•shekhar101•18h ago•1388 comments

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

264•ahlCVA•1h ago•108 comments

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM

67•Anon84•1h ago•12 comments

The Fatal Flaw of 911

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/16/911-book-policing-mental-health

13•plunge•40m ago•9 comments

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/

131•farlight•4h ago•91 comments

Waymo in Toronto

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/10/waymo-in-toronto/

147•ChrisArchitect•5h ago•264 comments

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/

257•speckx•3h ago•223 comments

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits

43•pretext•2h ago•7 comments

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference

215•antipaul•6h ago•101 comments

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_...

91•7402•2h ago•68 comments

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

https://calif.io/research/big-fish

139•rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•5h ago•37 comments

Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/piramidalinc/jobs/4443102009

1•dsacellarius•3h ago

Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

https://starskirmish.com/bench/v0-2/

152•__cayenne__•5h ago•69 comments

C++26: The New Debugging Header

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/30/cpp26-debugging

11•jandeboevrie•1h ago•0 comments

What on Earth Is Dekton?

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/porcelain

103•wawayanda•5h ago•37 comments

Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stolen-renoir-paintings-found-behind-wall-france/

83•ohjeez•3d ago•55 comments

GifCities

https://gifcities.org/

19•augury•2h ago•0 comments

/dev/null: social network for developers

https://dev-null.sh

62•mnapoli•3h ago•80 comments

Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June

https://www.ft.com/content/5a310aee-f555-4266-874c-b1b4db20186d

98•JumpCrisscross•2h ago•24 comments

I Love Software Rendering

https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/10/13/i-love-software-rendering/

256•speckx•7h ago•176 comments

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU

793•johnnyApplePRNG•3d ago•234 comments

How the Claude Code team does code review

https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/

53•pretext•1h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Stoke Money – Personal finance app built around a cash flow forecast

https://stoke.money

8•_wesley•1h ago•3 comments

RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop

https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/06/rfc8950-announce-ipv4-with-ipv6-next-hop/

76•porridgeraisin•6h ago•40 comments

Monte-Carlo Simulations

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/monte-carlo-simulations/

12•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon

https://va3ndf.com/blog/hacker-badges/

36•va3ndf•2d ago•9 comments

Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6bMSjPepM

66•zdw•20h ago•42 comments

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses

https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/

235•aragonite•3d ago•101 comments

US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership

https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/rep-torres-announces-power-to-the-players-act-legislation-t...

161•DeepLogin•4h ago•91 comments

How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.70113

41•porridgeraisin•5h ago•21 comments