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Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•54s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•2m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
1•guerrilla•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•5m ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
2•rolph•7m ago•0 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•10m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•13m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
2•cratermoon•14m ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

https://philipotoole.com/the-source-code-was-the-moat-no-longer/
1•otoolep•14m ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•15m ago•0 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
2•hhs•18m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

1•vampiregrey•20m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•21m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
2•hhs•23m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•24m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

2•Philpax•24m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•30m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

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1•geox•32m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
3•EA-3167•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

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6•fliellerjulian•34m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•36m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
2•RickJWagner•38m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•39m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
13•jbegley•39m ago•3 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•40m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•40m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
3•amitprasad•41m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)

https://www.crypto101.io/
236•pona-a•7mo ago

Comments

teleforce•7mo ago
Thanks for the link.

You can download this entire Handbook of Applied Cryptography for free [1].

Recently the authors also provided online course and video namely:

- Cryptography 101: Building Blocks (fundamental cryptographic primitives) [2]

- Cryptography 101: Real-World Deployments (PKI, TLS, Bluetooth, AWS, Signal) [3]

Other courses and video includes:

- The Mathematics of Lattice-Based Cryptography (introductory course)

- Kyber and Dilithium (standardized lattice-based cryptosystems)

- Hash-based signature schemes (LMS, XMSS, SPHINCS+)

- Error-Correcting Codes (linear, Hamming, Golay, cyclic, BCH, Reed-Solomon codes

[1] Handbook of Applied Cryptography:

https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

[2] Crypto 101: Building Blocks:

https://cryptography101.ca/crypto101-building-blocks/

[3] Crypto 101: Real-World Deployments:

https://cryptography101.ca/crypto101-deployments/

xavdid•7mo ago
I don't remember if it links to it, but this pairs well with https://cryptopals.com/, which are practical examples of many of these theories.
anorphirith•7mo ago
this is the type of crypto i like
physix•7mo ago
This looks to be really well written. After 25 odd pages, I'm saying to myself, can't wait to read the whole book.
mac-monet•7mo ago
About to finish reading "Real World Cryptograhy" by David Wong, would highly recommend for anyone curious about this subject.
baxtr•7mo ago
>Fortunately, we donʼt have an algorithm that can factor such large numbers in reasonable time. Unfortunately, we also havenʼt proven it doesnʼt exist. Even more unfortunate is that there is a theoretical algorithm, called Shorʼs algorithm, that would be able to factor such a number in reasonable time on a quantum computer. Right now, quantum computers are far from practical, but it does appear that if someone in the future manages to build one thatʼs sufficiently large, RSA becomes ineffective.

Can anyone comment on how close we are to having Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer? Is feasible like the moon landing was in 1962 when Kennedy announced that "We choose to go to the Moon" (hard, but possible with a lot of money).

Or is it still something that we have no clue how to get to?

ctz•7mo ago
https://pqcrypto2025.iis.sinica.edu.tw/slides/Invited3.pdf

edit: video if you prefer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJxENYdsB6c

baxtr•7mo ago
So it’s not like the moon landing since the horizon is much longer than a decade.
z3phyr•7mo ago
I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded. All of the cryptography is only as strong as the collective failure of all human intelligence so far to break it.

Most people consider cryptography as a "solved" problem, but I don't think it is. I am sure if enough cryptologists try algorithmic methods and are well compensated for it, they will likely find algorithmic weaknesses (and invent new kinds of mathematics) that can bring down complexity of solving such schemes, even before we have real and functional Shor machines.

thaumasiotes•7mo ago
> I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded.

Really? That would be a change.

z3phyr•7mo ago
I guess massively is the relative word. But I will stand by the claim that we can discover/invent new mathematical methods that can aid in cryptanalysis, if not directly by cryptographers, then by some adjacent field.
pythops•7mo ago
Looks great, thanks for sharing