BLAKE3
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Aug 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Blake3 is really a wonderfully fast cryptographic hash.”
built own dedup utilityon “uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache”
“BLAKE3 would probably make a noticeable performance difference.”
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“Thanks for making BLAKE3! I use it in several pieces of software.”
“Try Blake3 instead SHA-1”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“BLAKE3 does reduce the round count relative to BLAKE2”
“This is a difference between BLAKE3 and most other hash functions.”
Threads where it came up
- Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs. SHA-3 vs. BLAKE3 3 mentions
- uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache 1 mention
- Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches 1 mention
- item 47521832 1 mention
- Filesystems Are Having a Moment 1 mention
- I made my own Git 1 mention
Also written as blake3. Data: blake3.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“Blake3 is really a wonderfully fast cryptographic hash.”
“the official `blake3` crate”
“hashed the entire 8-terabyte dataset using BLAKE3”
“Why Blake3 and not say XXH3 64/128 bits”
“BLAKE3 would probably make a noticeable performance difference.”
“Thanks for making BLAKE3! I use it in several pieces of software.”
“Try Blake3 instead SHA-1”