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Show HN: Reverse engineering GitHub's identicon algorithm
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kshvmdn
4y ago
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IshKebab
4y ago
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I mean, if you're relying on enumerating every user why reverse anything? Just generate all of their identicons.
kshvmdn
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4y ago
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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