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Isaac Lee • Edited

Both terms are inspired from cooking.

A hash, like a hash brown, means something that has been chopped (into bits, heh) and mixed, whereas salt is an ingredient that we add beforehand to make the hash taste betterโ€”to make it unique.

Source: my blog :D