[dmunoz]

Not in the style of the submitted article, but HyperLogLog was mentioned [0] last year on Nick's Blogs Damn Cool Algortihms series [1]. Discussion on HN [2].

[0] http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinali...

[1] http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488946