Feb 11, 2025 | Undergraduate improves hash table search speed, Surnames derived from obsolete nicknames, Anthropic Economic Index introduced
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Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511
Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
https://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/nickname-names.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000316
The Anthropic Economic Index
https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000529
Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/browse.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000303
Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-study-identifies-originators-indo-european-language-family
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969038
How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2025/02/06/how_copyover_mud_servers_worked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007769
Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/work-at-the-mill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002906
Patterns for Building Realtime Features
https://zknill.io/posts/patterns-for-building-realtime/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004334
Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004416
Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/indigenous-engineers-are-using-ai-preserve-culture-rcna176012
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969993
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