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MrGreenTeayesterday at 7:20 PM1 replyview on HN

The author writes that these hashes are 2 or 3 characters long. I assume depending on the line count. That's good for almost 48k lines. You have other issues then.


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azinman2yesterday at 7:27 PM

But if it’s a hash vs a line number, then we can collide much more easily.

There many be many lines that are duplicates, eg “{“