2024.10.01 23:05:19 (Mastodon 113234668403363669, Twitter 1841253097537941833) from Daniel J. Bernstein:
People writing document-generation tools typically thought it was a cool feature to be able to split words at the ends of lines (see, e.g., https://tug.org/docs/liang/liang-thesis.pdf), adding a hyphen if there wasn't one already. Of course, they didn't think about what this means for word searches.