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unbounded-context-attention

An attention architecture for unbounded context with provable per-token influence and 100% recall via cryptographic hash retrieval

Security & Privacy
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What to know before exploring

What it is

An attention architecture for unbounded context with provable per-token influence and 100% recall via cryptographic hash retrieval

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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, 3:56:07 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 hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-05-06 00:18:49 UTC to 2026-05-06 23:54:27 UTC.

012026-05-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 6, 00:002026-05-06 01:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 02:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 04:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 05:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 07:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 08:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 10:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 11:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 6, 11:002026-05-06 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 13:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 14:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 16:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 17:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 19:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-06 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 6, 23:00

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

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 6, 00:002026-05-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 01:00:00 UTC110
May 6, 01:002026-05-06 01:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 02:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 02:002026-05-06 02:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 03:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 03:002026-05-06 03:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 04:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 04:002026-05-06 04:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 05:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 05:002026-05-06 05:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 06:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 06:002026-05-06 06:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 07:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 07:002026-05-06 07:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 08:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 08:002026-05-06 08:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 09:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 09:002026-05-06 09:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 10:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 10:002026-05-06 10:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 11:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 11:002026-05-06 11:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 12:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 12:002026-05-06 12:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 13:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 13:002026-05-06 13:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 14:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 14:002026-05-06 14:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 15:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 15:002026-05-06 15:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 16:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 16:002026-05-06 16:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 17:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 17:002026-05-06 17:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 18:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 18:002026-05-06 18:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 19:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 19:002026-05-06 19:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 20:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 20:002026-05-06 20:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 21:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 21:002026-05-06 21:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 22:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 22:002026-05-06 22:00:00 UTC2026-05-06 23:00:00 UTC000
May 6, 23:002026-05-06 23:00:00 UTC2026-05-07 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
westurner·May 6, 2026
Related articles; re: rounds and layers: - "Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)" https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983467 - "Show HN: ResonanceNet – Proof-of-Training Blockchain" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386901 - "Cryptographic hashing as a transformer attention head" https://github.com/ffr1/unbounded-context-attention - 'Implementation for NDSS'2025 paper: "TensorCrypt: Repurposing Neural Networks for Efficient Cryptographic Computation"' https://github.com/OSUSecLab/TensorCrypt : > More specifically, with a program translation framework that converts traditional cryptographic algorithms into NN models, our proof-of-concept implementations in TensorFlow demonstrate substantial performance improvements: encryption speeds for AES, Chacha20, and
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Salsa20 show increases of up to 4.09×, 5.44×, and 5.06×, respectively, compared to existing GPU-based cryptographic solutions written by human experts.
In Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

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