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They say that it's free from algorithms, but I found several uses of hash maps just from a quick glance through the source.


Haha that's clever! I hadn't even thought about it like that. I think today most non technical people and the news basically calls anything like an algorithmic recommendation systems "algorithms". The "algorithm" is what drives this sort of addictive feed of content that we keep looking for, hence that. But yea good point.


More of a data structure than an algorithm, if we're being pedantic.




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