Ask HN: Would you buy apparel with 'significant' SHA256 Identicons on them?

3 points by zzzaim 9 years ago | 1 comment

Here's something I came up this weekend: "Identishirts" [1]

Basically, T-shirts with Identicons of SHA-256 hashes of interesting data, like:

1. First N digits of Pi

2. The Planck constant

3. Random bits from a Quantum Random Number Generator [2]

4. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

etc. etc.

So if I were to wear one and someone asks, "Hey, that's an interesting design, what is it?"

I can reply obnoxiously with, "Oh this? It's just some quantum randomness of photon arrival times :)"

Is this something you're interested in? Is it too geeky / niche? Or is it just stupid?

[1] https://zirotekton.surge.sh/identishirts/

[2] https://qrng.physik.hu-berlin.de/

crystalPalace 9 years ago |

I would be more interested if the representation of the data was something other than identicons. I identify these too closely with people's profile pictures specifically on Github. I do think this is a neat idea though.