The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash
I keep imagining the fantasy scenario where some day I stumble on a software download or repo or something. Nothing special, no fanfare, just a random piece of code to do some random task.<p>Inside the repo or zip, is a simple text manifest file. The file has some bog standard readme stuff and then lists all the files and their hashes, you know, so you can check nothing's corrupted whatnot.<p>But in that list of files, is a line item for the manifest file itself and along with its own hash! Something that on the surface looks completely innocuous but becomes profoundly impressive as you ponder it.<p>Kind of a low-key [fridge brilliance](<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeBrilliance" rel="nofollow">https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeBrilliance</a>) kind of flex.<p>[Bonus] I'm also reminded of this paper: <a href="https://vision.cornell.edu/se3/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gestalt.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://vision.cornell.edu/se3/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ge...</a>