Hacker News with Generative AI: Hashing

Adaptive Hashing (quotenil.com)
At the 2024 ELS, I gave a talk on adaptive hashing, which focusses on making general purpose hash tables faster and more robust at the same time.

Hashing, Data Structures, Computer Science, Algorithms

10 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 1 comments

Consistent Hash Ring (selfboot.cn)
Consistent Hashing Ring is a special hashing algorithm primarily used for data distribution and load balancing in distributed systems.

Distributed Systems, Load Balancing, Hashing, Data Distribution

73 points by jcartw 22 days ago | 21 comments

Thoughts on Rust Hashing (purplesyringa.moe)
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author.

Rust, Programming Languages, Hashing

5 points by anfilt 61 days ago | 1 comments

Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python? (omairmajid.com)
While browsing Reddit the other day waiting for my code to compile, I ran across this question on r/Python:

Python, Programming, Hashing, Data Structures

103 points by alexmolas 121 days ago | 91 comments

Show HN: Rain hashes – well designed, simple and fast variable sized hashes (github.com/DOSAYGO-Research)
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Cryptography, Hashing, Software, Open Source

79 points by keepamovin 147 days ago | 52 comments

The SHA-256 hash of this sentence begins with 0573e7473 (mastodon.social)

Cryptography, Security, Hashing

12 points by thunderbong 177 days ago | 2 comments

SHA-256 0573e7473 (susam.net)
The SHA-256 hash of this sentence begins with 0573e7473.

Cryptography, Security, Hashing

18 points by stargrave 178 days ago | 11 comments

The performance of hashing for similar function detection (edmcman.github.io)