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[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

"Nothing from my end, thanks"

[Tech Sales Guy @TechSalesGuy]

best sales advice I’ve read in a while

[Turah @zniturah]

@deedydas @chamath No. It all goes to preference

[Turah @zniturah]

@blip_tm @AnthropicAI Mission ? Or ..

[Turah @zniturah]

@amasad @paulg One of the many biggest ironies is that Israel is denying Armenian genocide committed by Ottoman Empire.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The entire tech industry (save for Anthropic) has come out in favor of open source AI.

So what happens next? Will Anthropic change its lobbying efforts? Not likely. Now the gaslighting begins:

“Nobody is trying to ban open source.”

“We just want to limit who can use it.”

“We just want to limit who can contribute to it.”

“We just want to limit how powerful those models can be.”

“We just want to make sure the guardrails (we lobbied for) can’t be removed.”

The net effect will be the same. They won’t stop until they kneecap open source. The rest of the industry needs to watch these guys like a hawk.

[Turah @zniturah]

@Mononofu @JensenHuang hiring bar

[Turah @zniturah]

Elon Musk’s $60B Cursor acquisition was funded with SpaceX stock. Nice toy - shame everyday investors are the ones paying for it, as market-cap losses wipe out gains roughly equal to the purchase price.

[Turah @zniturah]

@ImShahinyan Nice !!

[Turah @zniturah]

@progXprog @ChShersh Elaborate please

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Watching people cheer for Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire is like watching chickens campaign for KFC

[gabriel @gabriel1]

specialization is just a comfortable lie, if you're smart you can become good at anything. if you are really good at once thing, becoming good at a second is super easy

i changed my mind slightly on this though, you also have to be excited and get happiness from the new thing

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I strive to make my writing unsummarizable, in the sense that it has so little fluff left in it that if you take any words out, as summaries by definition do, you lose a lot of interesting ideas.

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder.

On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.

But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first!

As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise.

Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours.

Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure.

Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice!

The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :)

Part 2: neutral atoms and qday

The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers.

Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low.

Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts.

My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom".

Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.

So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030.

Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years.

Part 3: post-quantum cryptography

There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation.

These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer.

The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security.

Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.

[Turah @zniturah]

@garrytan @OfficialLoganK

[@levelsio @levelsio]

So here's my latest set up

Every site I have is a profile on Termius like

> hoodmaps .com

I click it and immediately I'm in my server and I get dropped in a tmux session that's always tied to the corresponding site I wanna log in to

To make this work I have this startup snippet in each site's Termius profile:

> cd /srv/http/hoodmaps.com && tm

(so /srv/http is where my sites are and then hoodmaps .com is the example site here, and "&& tm" is the important part here)

Then in my ~/.bashrc file I added this (written by Claude Code) which defines the "tm" function, again all it does it just put me in the right tmux session based on the folder I'm in

The result is I can switch without interruption from my laptop to phone in Termius with auto reconnecting sessions and usually I just have Claude Code open in each session to work

Before I had to mess around with 1) not having smooth switching from laptop to phone, I'd have to use Claude Code's /resume for it, annoying, 2) having multiple sessions for same sites, gets messy and confusing fast, now it FORCES me into one session per site, this just works so well, I'm so fast, and each of my sites is just an open tab in Termius, I've never worked so structured and clean!

Here is the code, maybe it helps somebody:

# tmux session per folder. `tm` (no args) attaches to / creates a session
# named after the current dir's basename. `tm name` overrides the name.
# Works whether already inside tmux (uses switch-client) or outside it.
tm() {
command -v tmux >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "tmux not installed"; return 1; }
local name="${1:-$(basename "$PWD")}"
# tmux session names can't contain '.' or ':' — replace with '-'
name="${name//./-}"
name="${name//:/-}"
if [ -n "$TMUX" ]; then
tmux has-session -t "$name" 2>/dev/null || tmux new-session -d -s "$name" -c "$PWD"
tmux switch-client -t "$name"
else
tmux attach -t "$name" 2>/dev/null || tmux new -s "$name" -c "$PWD"
fi
}

# Auto-attach on interactive login: picks a session named after wherever
# you land. Plain `ssh server` lands in $HOME → session "root". Use
# `ssh server -t "cd /srv/sm.levels.io && bash -l"` to land in a site
# folder → session "sm-levels-io". Skips inside tmux and non-interactive
# shells so scp/rsync/scripted ssh keep working.
if command -v tmux >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -z "$TMUX" ] && [[ $- == *i* ]]; then
tm
fi

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

Who controls the media?

Meta owns:
Facebook
Instagram
WhatsApp
Messenger
Threads
Oculus / Meta Quest VR
Meta AI

Meta is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg who is jewish

Alphabet owns:
Google
YouTube
Android
Gmail
Chrome
Pixel phones
Nest smart home devices
Fitbit (acquired in 2021)
DeepMind
Gemini AI assistant/model family
Waymo — self-driving cars
Verily — health technology
Calico — longevity research
Wing — drone delivery

Alphabet is controlled by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who are both jewish

Tic Tok
U.S. algorithm, cybersecurity and infrastructure is controlled by Oracle

Oracle is controlled by Larry Ellison and he’s jewish

Hookup Apps

Match Group owns:
Tinder
Hinge
OkCupid
https://t.co/piiSIKCUS4
Plenty of Fish
Meetic
The League
BLK
Archer
OurTime
Was founded by Barry Diller who is jewish

Grindr
Was founded by Joel Simkhai who is jewish

Bumble
Was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd who is jewish

Porn

Onlyfans
Owned by Leonid Radvinsky who is jewish

Vixen Media Group owns:
Blacked
Blacked Raw
Vixen
Tushy
Deeper

Founded by Greg Lansky who is jewish

Aylo/MindGeek Owns/owned:
Pornhub
YouPorn
RedTube
Brazzers
Reality Kings
Digital Playground
https://t.co/qkqIK03f0k
Sean Cody
Tube8

Solomon Friedman is the owner of Aylo and he’s jewish

Gamma Entertainment owns/operates:
Adult Time
Pure Taboo
Wicked
Girlsway
many affiliate studios/platforms

Founded by Karl Bernard who is jewish

Movies/TV/News

Warner Brothers Discovery owns:
Warner Bros. Pictures
HBO
CNN
DC Studios
Cartoon Network
Discovery Channel
TNT
TBS
Max (formerly HBO Max)
Adult Swim
HGTV
Food Network
Animal Planet

Warner Brothers is run by David Zaslav who is jewish

Disney owns:
ESPN
ABC
Marvel Studios
Lucasfilm
Pixar
20th Century Studios
Disney+
Hulu (major controlling stake)
National Geographic

Disney is run by Bob Iger who is jewish

Paramount Global owns:
Broadcast & News
CBS
CBS News
CBS Sports
Local CBS stations
Film Studios
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Animation
Paramount Players
Cable Networks
MTV
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
BET
VH1
CMT
TV Land
Smithsonian Channel
Logo TV
Pop TV
Streaming & Premium
Paramount+
Showtime
Pluto TV
Major franchises/IP
Top Gun
Mission: Impossible
Star Trek
South Park (licensing/streaming arrangements)
SpongeBob SquarePants
Transformers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Paramount Global is controlled by Sheri Redstone, who is jewish

Comcast owns:
* NBCUniversal
* NBC
* Universal Pictures
* Peacock
* MSNBC
* CNBC
* Telemundo
* Sky (Europe)
* DreamWorks Animation
* Xfinity

Comcast is controlled by Roberts family who is Jewish

AI/Data Centers

OpenAI/ChatGPT
Run by Sam Altman who is jewish

Palentir provides advanced data integration, surveillance, AI, and analytics infrastructure used by military, intelligence, law enforcement, and major corporations. Its platforms help organizations combine massive amounts of fragmented data into real-time operational intelligence for warfare, policing, logistics, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and decision-making, making it one of the most strategically influential data and defense technology companies in the world.

Owned and operated by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp both jewish

Oracle owns:
Oracle Database
Java
MySQL
NetSuite
Cerner
Sun Microsystems technologies
It’s important because it owns core infrastructure software that powers governments, banks, hospitals, corporations, and large parts of the internet. Its control of technologies like Oracle Database, Java, MySQL, and Cerner gives it enormous influence over the backend systems modern society depends on.

Owned by Larry Ellison who is jewish

[Turah @zniturah]

@fchollet And ‘avoid doing the job’ is probably the result of being trained to provide short responses.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others.

[Maulik Joshi @_mj92_]

@cullenroche Succession had a great quote on this

“You can't do anything with five, Greg. Five's a nightmare. Can't retire. Not worth it to work. Oh, yes, five will drive you un poco loco”