Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
Bring your dotfiles to a remote machine via SSH without mess. Installation Required dependencies: POSIX shell, ssh, tar, base64, mktemp curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FOBshippingpoint/shittp/refs/heads/main/install.sh –output install.sh chmod +x install.sh ./install.sh Edit your dotfiles in ~/.config/shittp
An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%
Abstract Phosphorus atoms in silicon represent a promising platform for quantum computing, as their nuclear spins exhibit coherence times over seconds1,2 with high-fidelity readout and single-qubit control3. By placing several phosphorus atoms within a radius of a few nanometres, they couple by means of the hyperfine interaction to a single, shared electron. Such a nuclear […]
New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis
The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest on intuition rather than clear definitions, and few attempts have been made to formally spell out what “simulation” even means. A new […]
I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology
⏲️ Estimated reading time ~45min. Flash Attention has become one of the most impactful optimizations in modern deep learning. Since the original paper was published in 2022, we’ve seen four major versions—each squeezing more performance out of increasingly powerful hardware. But here’s the thing: reading papers is one thing, understanding why these optimizations were made […]
Inca Stone Masonry
45 minute read The Inca civilization is often depicted as being shrouded in mystery, where how they achieved their incredible stonework is treated like an impenetrable enigma. But the Inca Empire, or Tahuantinsuyu, was still dominant throughout South American at the time of the European conquest. It stretched from Colombia down into Chile and Argentina, […]
Ruby’s Website Got an Overhaul
“ When I released Ruby to the world, I never imagined such a rich ecosystem would grow from it. Over 200,000 gems, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Bundler—it was the community that created and nurtured all of these. My wish to “make programmers happy” has been realized in ways I could never have achieved alone.
Isengard in Oxford
Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world. The Bovadium Fragments by J. R. R. Tolkien. William Morrow, 2025. 144 pages. READERS OF J. R. R. Tolkien are used to dealing with fragments. In the half century since the author’s death, dozens of his unfinished works have been released, including […]
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks: Opus 4.5 has 50% horizon of 4h49M
Linear Scale Log Scale 50% Success 80% Success Analysis code available on GitHub Raw data available here This is our most up-to-date measurement of the task-completion time horizons for public language models. We intend to update this graph periodically whenever we have new measurements to share. For methodological details, including a definition of the task-completion […]
Anatomy of US inequality
Is income inequality in the United States primarily driven by disparities between ethnic groups or within them? The evidence reveals a striking pattern: 96% of U.S. income inequality arises from variation within groups sharing common ancestral origins, far overshadowing the comparatively small share attributable to differences between these groups. This pattern remains remarkably stable across […]
I wrote a code editor in C and now I’m a changed man
light ‘ HolyCode [.] Praise God [.] If Vim/Neovim is Rust, light/HolyC is C. [.] Designed to get work done, convenient first, speed second. [.] You can look at the holy-code(light.HolyCode.c) distributed with this repository, to learn about the axioms of light ‘ HolyCode. [.] There is almost no runtime overhead for the editor [.] […]