“Pick a font that other Claudes wouldn’t pick when asked what other Claudes wouldn’t pick”

Claude: 😵‍💫

LLMs predict the next token in the same sense that humans predict the next body motion

The reasons:

1. Some data *should* be visible to the public, e.g. total amount of user funds held by intermediaries or smart contracts.
2. For most data, it is better for it to be visible to the public than for it to be "private" but visible to certain third parties.

BTW, neither of the two ways are that it worsens UX! Contrary to popular belief, I think that adding more privacy usually *improves* UX.

ZPrivDEX — building a shielded AMM on Zcash I sent the following message privately to @startersplugs and they requested that I post it publicly so here it is: What I want from this thread Real criticism, not encouragement. Well, okay. I r...

Two ways that, IMHO, adding more privacy can make something worse: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zprivdex-b...

ZODL Co—makers of a super excellent Zcash wallet—are hiring for five new positions: check it out! jobs.ashbyhq.com/zodl (BTW I have nothing to do with them—I work for a completely different organization. I just want to help great people and great jobs find each other.)

Things I enjoy reading in their entirety:
* vuln disclosures
* cybersecurity after-action-reports (incl DeFi hacks)
* airliner crashes and other safety reports
* dramatic corporate lawsuit Delaware Chancery Court decisions: courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow... (includes fun AI angle)

And you can keep doing this, and after a while you're asking for things that no one has ever done before

being a software engineer right now is like washing your clothes by hand for years, then being able to point a magic wand and say "build me a washing machine" and it's better than any you can buy.

you think, huh that worked pretty well, so you say "build me a clothes dryer" and that works too

Frog and Toad look out over Toad's garden. Nothing yet is growing in the dirt. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Then your seeds will start to grow.”

God, the modern world is so bad. Back in the day, everyone was roughly 2x taller than me, someone would always make my meals, and way more time was spent watching cartoons. The modern world is so much worse somehow despite technological progress

Zebra 4.3.1: Critical Security Fixes, Dockerized Mining and CI Hardening - Zcash Foundation We are releasing Zebra 4.3.1 today. This release contains fixes for a number of vulnerabilities, and all node operators are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. In addition to the security…

Zebra 4.3.1 contains critical security fixes for a number of vulnerabilities. 🚨All node operators are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.

Additionally, it introduces a Dockerized mining setup, automated checkpoint management, and a number of CI hardening improvements. bit.ly/3QhxsF9

people talking like they've never lifted the dirt from their car and carried it to the wash before

😂

we need to get the internet at a point soon where users are demanding that apps implement passkey support with the same energy you all have begging for dark mode lol

“Memory access is O(N^[1/3])” by Vitalik Buterin—bafybeiaql2jo3fu5b7c4lmpoi5drh5sam7yt652shwdgwbky4o7uw33u2u.ipfs.dweb.link/general/2025/10/05/memor...

People are more valuable than ideology is.

If you're wondering why iroh 1.0 is taking a minute it's because this is the viewer we needed to build to make sense of the logs. And yes, there is a spec for the log format, which we also had to implement

Real infrastructure takes time, and we're very, very close

str4d.xyz/atproto-devtool CLI app for developers prototyping atproto functionality

Hey #atproto developers! (Great time to post this lol)

I've published a Rust multitool intended to help developers write atproto apps and services:

cargo install atproto-devtool

First tool is a conformance test for labelers / moderation services:

atproto-devtool test labeler <handle | did | url>

For instance, instead of writing π or 3.14, one can now elegantly write E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(1,E(E(1, …

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.

Two exciting developments: A. intoverflow bug found and fixed in the Lean runtime 😍, B. an AI rewrote zlib into Lean and there is now a proven-correct implementation of zlib!? 😍😍😍 kirancodes.me/posts/log-wh...

The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds) - Econlib What drives the seeming relentless dynamism of Tokyo? Is there something special about Japanese culture? Joe McReynolds, co-author of Emergent Tokyo, argues that the secret to Tokyo’s energy and attra...

Cool podcast about Tokyo. Do I know anyone who lives there? www.econtalk.org/the-magic-of...

Hey @zooko2.bsky.social (and other BLAKE3 connoisseurs) I think we hit a bit of a wall in trying to add BLAKE3 to github.com/WICG/webcryp....

Main issue is no RFC, only internet-draft. Is there ongoing work to move this to RFC? Can we/ipfs help somehow?

There is a stable C2SP specification as c2sp.org/BLAKE3@v1.0.0.

C2SP specifications were already adopted elsewhere for the Web: the Apple and Chrome CT policies reference c2sp.org/static-ct-api@v1.1.0.

support.apple.com/en-us/103703

googlechrome.github.io/CertificateT...

- The bitter lesson: Richard Sutton's view on AI
- The butter lesson: more butter makes better food @gracekind.net
- The batter lesson: crêpes are better than pancakes
- The better lesson: AI can potentially improve teaching
- The botter lesson: genAI takes over social media

(Because of how he proved that The Halting Problem is undecidable.)

I'll bet if Alan Turing were alive today, he would love the question of “Can machines write programs for machines?” bsky.app/profile/zook...