YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Part of a police code for describing suspects

11 points Bluestein 2 days ago 5 comments

copperx 58 minutes ago | parent

Now I know where the name Axe body spray comes from.

Bluestein 42 minutes ago | parent

Somehow Beverly Hills cop came to mind :)

PS. I am really curious as to what would make one "strikingly short" as opposed to just very short or "the shortest".-

xnx 49 minutes ago | parent

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doublerabbit 6 minutes ago | parent

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And there is nothing to click.

eesmith 44 minutes ago | parent

The paper is available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2025.2... from Cryptologia v50, 2026.

A PDF of Bellovin's paper (marked "draft") is available from the author at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/codebooks.pdf .

A "preliminary version" of the same paper is available at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~CS4HS/talks/codebooks.pdf .

The "International Police Telegraph code" is available at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C210621 ; registration required.