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CursedSiliconlast Thursday at 11:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Hashing might not work since the stream itself would be a variable bitrate, meaning the individual pixels would differ and therefore the computed file hash


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3wolflast Thursday at 11:45 PM

They're using perceptual hashing, not cryptographic hashing of raw pixels. So it's invariant to variable bitrate, compression, etc.

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