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Mersenne Tree

h(x) = 29738f5f5bdc614018d03f472257506bc740c8021c1029ba08490fcb8563b86f

Solution

author: unknown

h(x) looks like a cryptographic hash, and refreshing the page shows it changes every 5s. We find that the SHA256 hash of the unix time (floored by 5 seconds) gives us the same hash. Thus the answer is the current unix time (and values within ± a minute are accepted).