[HN Gopher] Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
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Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
Author : teej
Score : 60 points
Date : 2026-01-31 19:11 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26826585 - April 2021 (10
| comments)
|
| _Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617325 - Aug 2019 (139
| comments)
|
| _Death Note Anonymity: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9553494 - May 2015 (23
| comments)
|
| _Who wrote the 'Death Note' script?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010846 - Jan 2013 (79
| comments)
| poppingtonic wrote:
| This essay nerd sniped me _hard_ into information theory.
| Absolutely love it.
| wodenokoto wrote:
| I would highly recommend the 2006 deaths note films.
|
| I found the manga and anime to have too many side stories. Fans
| of them love these near miss stories, but I found them like a
| bunch of dead ends.
|
| The double feature is well made and much more focused on the core
| story, imho
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_(2006_film)
| throwatdem12311 wrote:
| I also thought the the L spin-off was pretty good.
| Andrex wrote:
| They're not dead ends per se because their purpose is growing
| the characters and revealing more of them to the audience. The
| movie streamlines and speed runs all that, for better or worse.
| hibikir wrote:
| The analysis forgets the very first problem after someone is
| killing criminals visibly: Light relies on TV to find them. You
| could tell it's Japan without doing any math about time zones or
| anythING, as TV itself brings in the bias. To pretend you are
| elsewhere, you have to be consuming foreign news to even begin to
| have a chance to hide yourself
| throwaway314155 wrote:
| Have you seen the show/read the manga? That's precisely the
| first tactic L uses against Light - he broadcasts that he has
| precise knowledge that he's somewhere in the Kanto region of
| Japan based on this timing. This is also mentioned in the
| article.
| SilverElfin wrote:
| > How much positive evidence for guilt is necessary before we
| decide that some man should be put away?
|
| Isn't this what "beyond a reasonable doubt" is doing? It's
| obviously not precise but it's an intention of the current
| system.
| 20260126032624 wrote:
| > How much positive evidence for guilt is necessary before we
| decide that some man should be put away?
|
| The answer to this question is ZERO. We are human, after all
| (and the corollary is that no amount of evidence will tip the
| scale for someone we don't want to put away). How much positive
| evidence for guilt _ought to be_ necessary for a society to
| remain moral /egalitarian/equitable is a different question
| entirely.
| philipallstar wrote:
| Zero evidence is required to lock someone up?
| pixl97 wrote:
| Correct. The only thing required to lock someone up is
| power.
| GavinMcG wrote:
| I think you're taking "necessary" literally, whereas the
| author is posing a question about morality.
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