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Boris Reitman
Personal blog · borisreitman.medium.comsecuritymath
Boris Reitman's personal blog at borisreitman.medium.com covers security and math. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Diffie-Hellman for the Layman”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link these Medium essays on education and AI cheating at universities. The one comment quotes a post arguing that schools spend too much time teaching hand arithmetic, such as calculating square roots by hand.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Diffie-Hellman for the Layman2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29
What Hacker News says?
> Why do we teach kids how to do basic arithmetic by hand? I think kids waste way too much time doing hard arithmetic by hand. As a particularly egregious example, I visited a Montessori primary school where they demonstrated what is essentially a complex single player board game, for calculating square roots by hand. It's a process whereby a 5th grader would take ~10 minutes to calculate the root of a 3 digit numbe…
Comment linking /square-roots-the-montessori-way-3d57eff86fda
on “Inside the university AI cheating crisis”Submitted Diffie-Hellman for the Layman as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems with ancient musical scales as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diffie-Hellman for the layman as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Website switcheroo: links opening in tabs are dangerous (Tab Nabbing) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thwarting Password Shoulder Surfing (2019) as a story · 1 points
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