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Chess Powered Security for the Quantum Age

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    Fun, secure and client side file encryption using chess

    2025

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    I made a chess engine today, and made it fit within 2KB. I used a variant of MinMax called Negamax, with alpha beta pruning. For the board representation I have used a 120-cell "mailbox". I managed to squeeze in checkmate/stalemate in there, after trimming out some edge cases. I am a great fan of demoscene (computer art subculture) since middle school, and hence it was a ritual i had to perform. For estimating the Elo, I measured 240 automated games against Stockfish Elo levels (1320 to 1600) under fixed depth-5 and some constrained rules, using equal color distribution. Then converted…

    Feb 2026 · github.com

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    Loomal92

    Identity infrastructure for AI agents

    Apr 2026 · loomal.ai

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    Hey everyone, I have been trying to build a terminal based app for sometime now and this is an attempt at trying to build a chess app that one can play right inside terminal. I was inspired by `chess-tui`[1] which is a rust based project and was looking to build something similar using python. Luckily I stumbled upon textual[2] recently and it made my task of building this far more easier than I thought. [1] https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual

    2024 · github.com

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    e4e573

    Casual, minimal chess app

    2020

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    VELA74

    Securely execute AI-generated & untrusted code

    Jun 2026 · vela-secure.vercel.app

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    2016 · github.com

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    Hi HN! I just built chessterm, a Rust-powered TUI chess engine to practice chess notation (PGN) for an upcoming chess competition. This was also a way for me to learn Rust more deeply, particularly bitboards for move generation and terminal UI development with ratatui Unlike typical chess UIs that wrap around Stockfish, this is built completely from scratch, with: - PGN-only input (no AI, just human vs human) - Bitboard-based move generation (u64, precomputed attack masks) - Built with ratatui for a smooth terminal experience Would love to hear your feedback!

    2025 · github.com

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    An OSS KMP crypto + PKI library with a comprehensive ASN.1 engine. Android and iOS targets come with hardware-backed crypto + key storage, and native biometric auth.

    2025 · github.com

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    I’ve developed a new public-key encryption scheme (DIAC) that uses multidimensional, high-precision complex keyspaces and a modular trapdoor function for ultra-high entropy and quantum resistance. The code, benchmarks, and research paper (PDF) are all open-source: https://osf.io/mvkcq/ Would love feedback, questions, or cryptanalysis!

    2025 · osf.io

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    Hi HN, we are the developers from Tuta (formerly Tutanota), the German end-to-end encrypted email provider, and we recently released the world's first post-quantum encryption for email. We have included a full technical write-up of the cryptography involved in these changes and we have released it for open public review. This document specifies TutaCrypt, a protocol designed for hybrid email encryption in Tuta Mail. The protocol combines a classical Elliptic-Curve-Diffie-Hellman key exchange with a post-quantum KEM. The goal is to replace the usage of RSA in Tuta Mail. In the remainder of…

    2024 · tuta.com

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    Hi everyone, GitHub's CodeQL is a powerful semantic code analysis engine for identifying vulnerabilities across codebases. We've extended CodeQL to support Solidity, the most popular programming language for smart contracts. CodeQL enables you to query code as though it were data, and it's open-source (OSS). You can check it out here: . The product page is available at . CodeQL has its own licensing model, which you can find at https://codeql.github.com/. TL;DR: CodeQL is free for research and open-source projects.

    2024 · github.com

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    Free smart chess board — runs on the phone in your pocket.

    Jul 2026 · chessgaze.com

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    Auditable, provably-deletable memory for AI agents

    Jul 2026 · github.com

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    Quantum-resistant vault that murders unauthorized access

    Feb 2026

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    hi HN, While building Wolbarg (an open-source shared memory SDK for AI agents), I assumed PostgreSQL would be the obvious choice for memory storage. After benchmarking SQLite under realistic agent workloads, I was surprised by the results. For local-first and single-node deployments, SQLite handled far more than I expected while keeping the architecture much simpler. I wrote up the benchmarks, methodology, trade-offs, and where I still think PostgreSQL is the better choice.

    Jul 2026 · wolbarg.com

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    I’ve been experimenting with structured logic as a way to frame search spaces — not in an academic way, just as a personal project. I wanted to know: what happens if you initialize a brute-force run with a simple equality like xy = x / y? Not as a filter, just as a logical ignition point. I used AES-256-CBC encrypted files with UUID passwords and tested against a 1 million UUID space. It cracked it in under 40 seconds. Then I scaled it to a 1 billion UUID range, and it still found the key without issue. This isn’t a crypto tool, and I’m not trying to solve any cryptographic problems.…

    2025 · github.com

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