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Re:Ask HN: What Cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10... on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:03PM (#50347900)

Besides practical books does anyone have opinions about these?

The Code Book by Simon Singh

The Codebreakers by David Kahn

The Mathematics of Secrets by Joshua Holden

Re:Ask HN: What Cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10... on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:43PM (#50347780)

OK, Thanks for the suggestion for a practical exercise.

Re:Ask HN: What Cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10... on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:41PM (#50347765)

Thanks we'll check it out.

He started with inventing his own alphabet and language as he was learning to read and write, which eventually evolved into reinventing the Secret Decoder Ring with increasing complexity, so we want to encourage him in his adventure.

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

Posted by mike_richards on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.

We are looking for a Cryptography book recommendation to read with our 10 year old who loves making up his own ciphers. He loves reading adult math and science books with us at breakfast like Ignition!, Humble Pi, and The Hunt for Vulcan. All of the kids books that we've found are just puzzles, but I don't want to get something way over his head math-wise. A good history with basic theory...

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Re:A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in t... on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:33PM (#41812772)

The browser will happily render text files, but +1 for it shouldn't require js. =)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/84/pg84.txt

Re:Is Beekeeping Wrong? on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:43AM (#37233348)

Yes, and you will have happy neighbors... I do understand that the natural reproduction cycle isn't quite that simple. However for "normal" operation some removal is beneficial and not "stealing", so long as they have adequate supplies.

Re:Is Beekeeping Wrong? on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:05AM (#37233109)

If the bees are in a man made hive they need you to remove honey so that they have room to lay. If you don't they will leave and not all of that honey is going with them.

Re:Is Beekeeping Wrong? on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:59AM (#37233064)

It may have to do with the flowers you have in your yard. I have a beehive and a large number and diversity of native pollinators, but I plant to attract and support them.

Re:SpaceMonger on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:42PM (#32372598)

qdirstat is the Linux equivalent. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat