By John Gruber
Honk is the all-new way to chat with your friends in real time, with messages shown live as you type.
Atwood’s title — “URL Shortening: Hashes In Practice” — is misleading, as the whole point of the article is that URL shortening services don’t use hashing algorithms to generate their URLs. To make the URLs as short as possible, they simply use ASCII-encoded counting systems.
★ Thursday, 23 August 2007