Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 23, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 23, 2024 :</p>
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Visiting Scarfolk, the Most Spectacular Dystopia of the 1970s (2016)
Summary: Designer and screenwriter Richard Littler has turned his memories of life in suburban Britain during the 1970s into a blog and book about the fictional dystopian town of Scarfolk. Littler created pamphlets, posters, book covers, album art, audio clips, and television shorts that depict life in a paranoid, totalitarian 1970s community. The Scarfolk concept was recently optioned for a British TV series.
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Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big
Summary: The transition to post-quantum cryptography has begun, but current algorithms are not suitable for deployment on the public web due to their large size. NIST is running a competition for smaller, faster signatures, with Mayo and UOV showing potential. However, challenges remain, including performance impacts and the need for better algorithms with characteristics similar to RSA-2048. The quantum threat is important, but key exchange and authentication are equally crucial, as both can be broken by large-scale quantum computers.