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Research describes how to extract a timestamp from ChatGPT IDs

According to the headline, new research describes how to extract a timestamp from ChatGPT IDs. The item was surfaced on Hacker News Newest and links to a blog post on hindsig.ht titled "Decoding ChatGPT IDs," along with a Hacker News discussion thread. The source snippet contains only links, so the method, scope and results cannot be confirmed from it. Details should be checked in the linked post.

Source: Hacker News Newest · hindsig.ht Published 2026-10-29T17:12:14+00:00 Detected 2026-10-29T17:20:09+00:00
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According to the headline, new research describes how to extract a timestamp from ChatGPT IDs. The item was surfaced on Hacker News Newest and links to a blog post on hindsig.ht titled "Decoding ChatGPT IDs," along with a Hacker News discussion thread. The source snippet contains only links, so the method, scope and results cannot be confirmed from it. Details should be checked in the linked post.

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Developers and teams that handle ChatGPT identifiers may want to know whether those IDs reveal when they were created. If the research holds up, it could change how much information these IDs expose. Watch the linked post for the method, its limits and any response from the company behind ChatGPT.

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