48-digit prime numbers every git commit
Details
- External ID
- 46454369
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- 48-digit prime numbers every git commit
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Jan. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 67
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8451910408432147
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- security exploits and system hacking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- generate prime numbers on git commits
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Git hook or CLI script that tweaks commit metadata (timestamps, commit message padding) in a loop until the SHA-1/SHA-256 hash converts into a prime number via a standard Miller-Rabin primality test.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: git-vanity (similar vanity hash tool), git-vanity-sha (committer timestamp manipulation)
Concerns raised: Probabilistic primality testing lacks mathematical rigor vs deterministic algorithms, Sequential item IDs make timing attacks possible for getting specific IDs, Nonce in commit message is visible/not discrete enough, Performance overhead from repeatedly invoking git as subprocess
Feature requests: Use Baillie-PSW primality test instead of Miller-Rabin for provable primes, Store nonce in git commit header/trailer instead of message body, Manipulate committer email (user+nonce@domain) for discrete hash changes, Add git prime-log tool to show which commits are prime
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 167 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 168 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 59 days after the earliest competitor.
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- GitBalance · hn · 2025-11-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- mew · github · 2026-09-14 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.