I want to say it started a while ago because some hiring manager asked a question about how someone would do something but had the intended answer as a bloom fi

I want to say it started a while ago because some hiring manager asked a question about how someone would do something but had the intended answer as a bloom filter. The interviewee turned to hacker news to vent about it and then it brought enough eyeballs to a somewhat fringe algorithm to self-sustain these types of articles.