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Ask HN: What websites or servers do you know require external technology to run?
1 points by Use 743 days ago
An example would be using a radio receiver to seek true random numbers from atmospheric noise, as mentioned here: https://www.random.org/faq/#Q1.3

Another examples is Cloudflare using lava lamps to enhance the creation of encryption keys: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

What technology, other than regular computation and typically for a specific use case, do you know a website or other server is connected to?

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