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you get to choose which is more alarming:

- someone went out of their way to make the private key 4 as a joke
- someone had claude code do it, and it generated a shitty broken script to change the private key and pulled the number 4 the same way it generates all random numbers: by pulling a non-random number from its training set that someone on the internet associated with the word random a few times (and that’s how it got the xkcd joke)

either of these things happening might prompt a serious industry to re-evaluate and perhaps undergo systemic change

and the amazing thing is, there’s not really anything else it can be