TIL: Go's fnv hash

Wed, Jan 14, 2026 One-minute read

TIL: Go’s fnv hash

A colleague introduced me to hash/fnv from the Go stdlib today.

It’s a very simple and fast hashing lib when you don’t need cryptographic hashing.

Some use cases for me to remember:

  • Hash map keys
  • Deduplication

demo

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#til #hashing