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HN comment orderA detailed analysis of Meow Hash: https://peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysis It's not the highest of quality hash functions (see the SMHasher benchmarks), but it is fast. A great alternative is XXH3 (https://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/), which has seen far more usage in practice.
This is a good looking hash, just from the construction I can see that it should be extremely fast for bulk hashing of large objects and with strong statistical properties. I do want to comment for the wider audience why the details of this construction does not lend itself to small keys, and how you would fix that. I have an (unpublished, I'm lazy) AES-based hash function that is very fast for both bulk hashing and small keys, which required…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 556
- Total comments
- 177
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-20 | Meow Hash | edroche | 6 | 1 |
| 2018-10-20 | Meow Hash: A high-speed non-cryptographic hash functionFirst breakout | spatulon | 173 | 68 |
| 2021-10-29 | Meow Hash (2018)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | DeathArrow | 377 | 108 |