The Farnese letter

41 points by grigolin a day ago on hackernews | 6 comments

lubujackson | 8 hours ago

Love this analysis!

userbinator | 8 hours ago

Mentally autocorrected the title to "paypal cipher" and got enticed to click...

More seriously, this looks like the context modeling that advanced compression algorithms do, but in reverse.

Recovering the key does not settle the text.

That said, the Claudish in this article is only slightly annoying.

raphlinus | 7 hours ago

I had a sense. Pangram identifies this as AI.

userbinator | 7 hours ago

Definitely, although a bit less annoying to read than the usual level of Claudish, so it was either edited or the AI is improving.

I knew it was going to be cryptography. Everybody's cracking something these days. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738551