Hacker News with Generative AI: Hash Functions

Questioning the Criteria for Evaluating Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions (cacm.acm.org)
Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention.

Hash Functions, Computer Science, Cryptography

47 points by todsacerdoti 9 days ago | 9 comments

ChibiHash: Small, Fast 64 bit hash function (nrk.neocities.org)
If you need a small and fast 64 bit hash function that can be copy-pasted easily, then here's one that I cooked up in an hour or so: chibihash64.h.

Cryptography, Algorithms, Programming, Hash Functions, Code

104 points by thunderbong 96 days ago | 31 comments

ChibiHash: Small, Fast 64 bit hash function (nrk.neocities.org)
If you need a small and fast 64 bit hash function that can be copy-pasted easily, then here's one that I cooked up in an hour or so: chibihash64.h.

Hash Functions, Programming, Software, Algorithms

4 points by bratao 96 days ago | 0 comments

Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more (orlp.net)
Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random.

Cryptography, Hash Functions, Security, Performance

50 points by fanf2 111 days ago | 23 comments

Questioning the Criteria for Evaluating Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions (queue.acm.org)
Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention.