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pow-buster
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eternal-flame-AD / pow-buster

pow-buster

A fast, data-parallel, adversarially implemented mCaptcha/Anubis/Cerberus/go-away/Cap.js SIMD PoW solver. Features comprehensive coverage for Anubis challenge workflow and basic coverage for Cerberus and go-away for your edge case non-JavaScript use cases.

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What it is

A fast, data-parallel, adversarially implemented mCaptcha/Anubis/Cerberus/go-away/Cap.js SIMD PoW solver. Features comprehensive coverage for Anubis challenge workflow and basic coverage for Cerberus and go-away for your edge case non-JavaScript use cases.

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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.

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HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-11-02 11:38:37 UTC to 2026-09-06 21:00:40 UTC.

012025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 2026

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Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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yumechii·Nov 2, 2025
Here are some benchmarks, TLDR is Anubis is not as performant as an optimized client prover running on the same HEDT CPU. So the "PoW tax" essentially only applies to low volume requester who have no incentive to optimize or bespoke solution too diverse to optimize at scale. https://yumechi.jp/en/blog/2025/proof-of-mutex-outspeeding-a... https://github.com/eternal-flame-AD/pow-buster The problem was "fixed" but then reverted because the fix has deadlock bug. (Changelog entry: "Remove bbolt actorify implementation due to causing production issues.")
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