On: Hashing

[photochemsyn]

Very clear explanation! There's also a famous answer on SO that goes into collisions and has similar visual maps for viewing how random the hashing distributions are for a variety of different non-cryptographic hashing algorithms (top answer):

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4955...

[samwho → photochemsyn]

I saw this during the writing of the post! Extremely cool, I mention it a little in my behind-the-scenes post.