Hacker News: ohisaysirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ohisaysirHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:56:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ohisaysir in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"]]>Technically, information are the bits you DON'T know. Once you know the bits, it isn't "information" in the Shannon sense, in that it takes no energy to reset a message if you know all the bits, but takes N-units of energy for N unknown bits of information. (See; Feynman's lectures on computation)

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