Feb 11, 2025 | Undergraduate improves hash table search speed, Surnames derived from obsolete nicknames, Anthropic Economic Index introduced
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2025.Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much fasterhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511Surnames from nicknames nobody has any morehttps://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/nickname-names.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000316The Anthropic Economic Indexhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-indexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000529Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structurehttps://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/browse.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000303Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language familyhttps://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-study-identifies-originators-indo-european-language-familyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969038How Copyover MUD Servers Workedhttp://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2025/02/06/how_copyover_mud_servers_worked/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007769Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporationhttps://www.abortretry.fail/p/work-at-the-millhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002906Patterns for Building Realtime Featureshttps://zknill.io/posts/patterns-for-building-realtime/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004334Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approachhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004416Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culturehttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/indigenous-engineers-are-using-ai-preserve-culture-rcna176012https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969993