Ask HN: What fuel for my data furnace?

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  • fishnet

    Distributed Stockfish analysis for lichess.org (by lichess-org)

  • lila

    ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • RandomX

    Proof of work algorithm based on random code execution

  • This is not true for all crypto coins. A small proportion of mining hash functions are deliberately designed to thwart ASICs, e.g. https://github.com/tevador/RandomX. It's a cat-and-mouse game, though: CryptoNight was designed to fulfill the same role, but ultimately failed: https://monerodocs.org/proof-of-work/cryptonight/.

  • coronavirus

    Folding@home COVID-19 efforts

  • My personal recommendation would be Folding@Home[1]. Protein folding is an insanely complex thing life does and they use distributed computing to try to solve the large problems.

    1. https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en

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