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jameshclarkon Crankshaft – A GNU/Linux for the Raspberry Pi as an Android Auto headunit

It looks like it's built on Rasbian with some binaries and systemd units, so it's not really a custom OS.

jameshclarkon Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

I didn't see that post, but if you control the DNS for a domain you can use the DNS challenge with Let's Encrypt.

jameshclarkon IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor

The last news from IBM on HN about their quantum offering was that they had optimised the memory required for simulating quantum computers. 50-qubits seemed to the the upper limit before, but they managed to simulate a 56-qubit circuit. It was a good read: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05867

They've had real hardware for a while, though, and they have 5-qubit and 16-qubit machines that anyone can try via IBM Q experience.

So this is 100% legit as far as I'm concerned.