Benjie’s Humanoid Olympic Games
A gauntlet thrown I was kinda disappointed by the World Humanoid Robot Games.1 As fun as real-life rock-em-sock-em robots is, what people really care about is robots doing their chores. This is why robot laundry folding videos are so popular. Those laundry videos are super impressive: we didn’t know how to do that even a […]
test-ipv6.com will stay online!
Language 🌐: After announcing its retirement, many generous people and organizations offered help – thank you! The project is now transitioning to an RIR (Regional Internet Registry), which will continue running the site in the public interest. I’ll share updates as things progress. Click to see the previous message Previous message TL;DR: I will retire […]
Talent
Quantity has a quality of its very own. Some writers are good – and they write all the time. The holy trinity of newsletter writers (Matt Levine, Byrne Hobart and Patrick McKenzie) write up to 700k words a year – so 2,000 words a day. I think Matt Levine’s schedule looks a little bit like […]
Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
So I kept reading rumors that Gemini 3.0 is accessible through Google AI Studio through A/B testing and the SVGs folks were posting (of Xbox controllers in particular) made me think that they might be right. Gemini 3.0 is one of the most anticipated releases in AI at the moment because of the expected advances […]
Claude Skills
Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude will only access a skill when it’s relevant to the task at hand. When used, skills make Claude better at specialized tasks like working with Excel or […]
Mathematicians have found a hidden ‘reset button’ for undoing rotation
Can you undo a spinning top? Shutterstock Imagine spinning a top and then letting it come to rest. Is there a way for you to spin the top again so it ends up in the exact position it started, as if you had never spun it at all? Surprisingly, yes, say mathematicians who have discovered […]
Codex Is Live in Zed
When we introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) in collaboration with Google’s Gemini CLI team, we did not anticipate how much pent-up demand there was for a protocol like this! As of today, Zed supports Codex out-the-box via ACP. You can select it from the New Thread menu, just like Claude Code or Gemini CLI: […]
Ld_preload, the Invisible Key Theft
Imagine you are running a Solana validator. You have your EDR agent running, and you have everything set up and think you are safe. But you realize your wallet is drained and you don’t know why. You start to investigate and see that the validator only accessed your private keys and nothing else. You check […]
Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA
EA employees and the Communications Workers of America union have issued a statement against the proposed private acquisition of the company, claiming they were not represented in the negotiations and any jobs lost as a result would “be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets”. The acquisition of EA by a group […]
Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): Convergence Without Coordination
☕ Welcome to The Coder Cafe! Today, we will explore CRDTs, why they matter in distributed systems, and how they keep nodes in sync. Get cozy, grab a coffee, and let’s begin! CRDTs, short for Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, are a family of data structures built for distributed systems. At first sight, CRDTs may look […]