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Coalfire-Research / npk

npk

A mostly-serverless distributed hash cracking platform

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2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
818GitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

A mostly-serverless distributed hash cracking platform

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

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Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by 3-hour interval2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-22 01:54:20 UTC to 2019-03-25 15:49:14 UTC.

012019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-22 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 22, 00:002019-03-22 03:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-22 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-22 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-22 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-22 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-22 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-22 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-22 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-22 15:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-22 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-22 18:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-22 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-22 21:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-23 03:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-23 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-23 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-23 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-23 15:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-23 18:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-23 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 23, 18:002019-03-23 21:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 03:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 15:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 18:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-24 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-24 21:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-25 03:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-25 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-25 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-25 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-25 15:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 25, 15:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 22, 00:002019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-22 03:00:00 UTC110
Mar 22, 03:002019-03-22 03:00:00 UTC2019-03-22 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22, 06:002019-03-22 06:00:00 UTC2019-03-22 09:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22, 09:002019-03-22 09:00:00 UTC2019-03-22 12:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22, 12:002019-03-22 12:00:00 UTC2019-03-22 15:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22, 15:002019-03-22 15:00:00 UTC2019-03-22 18:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22, 18:002019-03-22 18:00:00 UTC2019-03-22 21:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22, 21:002019-03-22 21:00:00 UTC2019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 23, 00:002019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-23 03:00:00 UTC000
Mar 23, 03:002019-03-23 03:00:00 UTC2019-03-23 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 23, 06:002019-03-23 06:00:00 UTC2019-03-23 09:00:00 UTC000
Mar 23, 09:002019-03-23 09:00:00 UTC2019-03-23 12:00:00 UTC000
Mar 23, 12:002019-03-23 12:00:00 UTC2019-03-23 15:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 23, 18:002019-03-23 18:00:00 UTC2019-03-23 21:00:00 UTC000
Mar 23, 21:002019-03-23 21:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 00:002019-03-24 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 03:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 03:002019-03-24 03:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 06:002019-03-24 06:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 09:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 09:002019-03-24 09:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 12:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 12:002019-03-24 12:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 15:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 15:002019-03-24 15:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 18:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 18:002019-03-24 18:00:00 UTC2019-03-24 21:00:00 UTC000
Mar 24, 21:002019-03-24 21:00:00 UTC2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 25, 03:002019-03-25 03:00:00 UTC2019-03-25 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 25, 06:002019-03-25 06:00:00 UTC2019-03-25 09:00:00 UTC000
Mar 25, 09:002019-03-25 09:00:00 UTC2019-03-25 12:00:00 UTC000
Mar 25, 12:002019-03-25 12:00:00 UTC2019-03-25 15:00:00 UTC000
Mar 25, 15:002019-03-25 15:00:00 UTC2019-03-25 18:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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DownGoat·Mar 25, 2019
A Nvidia GTX 1080 can do about 20-25 GH/s of MD5. This makes the whole searchspace even without taking the vendor prefixes into account, quite brute forceable. Here is a benchmark of hashcat that gives some insights into the speed of the different hashing algorithms. https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27... A recently released tool also allows you to do all this on AWS for quite cheap without any big investment in hardware. https://github.com/Coalfire-Research/npk
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