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		ellis0n on Feb 7, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your br... I watched how it works, but it seems the rotation is just an animation and a fake. There are two requests: /flip and /info. When you click mouse button, the /flip request is GET immediately and it returns a result of 1(eagle) or 0. After that the coin animation begins with requests to /info which always returns the same response for no clear reason. After several /info requests the coin eventually stops without receiving any new results. $ curl https://quantum.orgsoft.org/info {"status":"ok","message":"Connected to IBM Eagle r3 (127 qubits)","display_name":"Eagle r3 (127 qubits)","alias":"ibm_kyiv","version":"1.20.22","num_qubits":127,"processor":"Eagle r3","url":"https://quantum.ibm.com/services/resources?system=ibm_kyiv"} $ curl https://quantum.orgsoft.org/flip 1

PcChip on Feb 7, 2025 [–]

Well yeah, the result from ibm quantum is either a 1 or 0 i suppose. Did you expect the quantum computer to draw you the coins through your phone too?

ellis0n on Feb 8, 2025 | [–]

The coin animation is non-quantum. I thought it was a bug and it doesn’t work as the author intended.

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