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Re:Voynich Manuscript Decrypted by Bristol Academic on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:19AM (#19919602)
The following excerpts score quite high on my BS meter:

- "Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire two weeks,"

- ""I experienced a series of 'eureka' moments whilst deciphering the code"

These two alone much more to discredit the "preliminary" claims than any of the remaining arguments in favor of the "discovery".

Ask HN: Looking for a stack-based VM that can run a simple instruction set

Posted by crypto-jeronimo on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:14AM
from the ask-hn dept.

As a teaching assistant, I'm looking for a suitable stack-based VM that can run a relatively simple instruction set (I haven't got a particular instruction set in mind yet, but I've been considering RISC).The purpose is demonstration of how programs can be created solely from opcodes (and then run into a stack-based VM).

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Re:JetBlue is using facial recognition instead of boarding passes on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:56AM (#19727300)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725610.
Re:Theresa May's Brexit deal rejected by 230 votes on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:59PM (#18915169)
Upvoted - thanks for the reference!
Re:Theresa May's Brexit deal rejected by 230 votes on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:57PM (#18915155)
Yes, that's very much correct - thank you!

The correct link is: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46885828

I'm afraid I don't have the privileges to edit the URL (I can update just the title).

Re:How Are These Crisscrossing Waves Even Possible? on Monday January 14, 2019 @05:47AM (#18902085)
Sounds interesting. If it wasn't a sarcastic comment, could you elaborate a bit, please?
Re:Scientists Identify Gene Pattern That Makes Some Animals Monogamous on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:05AM (#18873858)
> Uuuh, while your algorithm isn't racist, if a person is using an algorithm to be racist, then it could be concluded that what is happening is... racism.

This is an extremely weak "argument".

Practically, anything can be used as a murder weapon by a murderer. Then "what is happening is ..." murder.

Re:Ask HN: What would be the cons of exterminating all Aedes aegypti m... on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @06:34PM (#18811412)
Thanks for the answer! The question was a bit more general though - not only pertaining to the GM-related side.
Re:Ask HN: Features you would like to be added to your fav programming... on Monday December 31, 2018 @08:57PM (#18798426)
Isn't there a Java equivalent to Python's `zip`?

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