Nib explains
Big stories, from the basics up
Some news stories are too good for a paragraph. An explainer takes one of them and starts at the very beginning, so that by the end you understand not just what happened, but how it works. There are toys to play with along the way.
Nib says: I keep these in my casebook. Each case is a set of short chapters. Read them in order, poke every button, and skip nothing; the early ones are what make the ending land.
The casebook
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Cryptography · 10 chapters
The Case of the Mystery Seeds
For 25 years nobody knew where the numbers behind the internet's most-used encryption curves came from. In October 2026, Claude worked it out in under half an hour. Learn the math from scratch, then follow the trail yourself.
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