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The Farnese letter

32 pointsby grigolinlast Thursday at 5:39 PM5 commentsview on HN

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userbinatortoday at 12:36 AM

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.

raphlinustoday at 12:56 AM

I had a sense. Pangram identifies this as AI.

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esafaktoday at 1:33 AM

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

lubujacksontoday at 12:07 AM

Love this analysis!