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black_rabbit_on Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?

I was going to recommend this one! I read it at about that age and work in a cryptography-adjacent role now. Great book.

black_rabbit_on Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales

This sentence:

> But if you've ever rubbed a wild baby whale's nose while looking at it in the eyes -- and experienced the emotional connection which results -- then you will be forever incapable of hostility, apathy, or utilitarian thinking about whales.

Comment you're replying to is saying that this is optimistic; most people are capable of doublethink, and will quite happily "love" one individual of a species while being completely indifferent to the death and suffering of the rest of that species. I've observed the same phenomenon.

black_rabbit_on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

I'd be surprised if all of it is organic discussion, shall we say. I reckon The Bot Factory just possibly might dogfood the astroturf machine.

black_rabbit_on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

You did a fantastic job; very to-the-point with effective visualisations. Kudos!

One very minor note: if your scroll device reports pixel-perfect deltas rather than discrete scroll-wheel ticks (e.g. logitech mx master, laptop touchpad, etc), the behaviour in the word search box is a bit weird. Arrow keys work fine though.

black_rabbit_on 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor – too expensive

> nobody needs psych meds for any good purpose

You must be fortunate to be able make that assertion so confidently. Generalising from a sample size of 1 is the kind of thing that gets you sent to grippy sock jail.

black_rabbit_on HMD Touch 4G

I mean, depending on what you mean by "small smartphone", the early models definitely count (3.5"-4" diagonal). They were huge screens for their time, but nowadays everything's a phablet so they look tiny by comparison.