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__erik

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About __erik

Head of Eng, Coinbase Developer Platform

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    Comment #49078875

    This is super cool! The brew install path in the readme doesn't seem to work remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository ' https://github.com/frigadehq/homebrew-tap/ ' not foun…

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    Comment #49032917

    I kind of buy that Chinese models should only be usable via western hosts, but completely shutting them off would be a massive self own.

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    Comment #48170930

    Here's a lot of really nice features in this language (I really like the actor / nursery designs), but a GIL in 2026 feels like a massive weakness

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    Comment #47416174

    This is cool, it reminds me of stumbleupon from back in the day

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    Comment #45760873

    x402 as a standard will never have a fee.

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    Comment #45351814

    x402 abstracts away gas! You can try here from a human use standpoint: https://www.x402.org/protected And you can see how to accept stablecoins or spend in the the examples https:/…

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    Comment #45351769

    Blockchains are fast and and cheap now! Modern blockchains like Base, Solana, Sui (and many more) typically have block times <2 seconds, and a stablecoin transfer can cost as littl…

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    Comment #45351723

    its not that 402 isn't used, its that there is no standard response, which makes it hard for AI agents to pay for access. x402 provides a standard response format clients can progr…

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    Comment #45351265

    >Given that this runs atop Payment Required, doesn’t this mean that each API request would involve an extra one or two data transfers? Yes, assuming its the first time you've inter…

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    Comment #45351242

    >Does x402 prevent the double-spending problem? This depends on the implementation on the underlying network, but basically the spending signs an authorization for transfer, and th…

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    Comment #45351009

    Gas is variable, but Coinbase currently subsidizes x402 transactions that go through our facilitator

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    Comment #45351000

    x402 as a protocol has no fees, but the underlying network transactions are conducted on my have costs. Merchants can choose the underlying network transactions are conducted on th…

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    Comment #45350933

    (x402 author here) Thats actually exactly what the intention with x402 is. Merchants express to the buyer multiple ways that they accept payment and the buyer chooses the one they …

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    Comment #43917923

    we will happy accept PRs the add support for any chains that can perform the payment flows in a safe, non-custodial way for the client, resource server and faciliator. Currently x4…

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    Show HN: X402 – an open standard for internet native payments

    Hi HN – excited to announce x402, initially developed by Coinbase (YC 12) x402 lets any HTTP API charge per request without issuing API keys or storing credit cards. Buyers (humans…

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    Comment #43260508

    People never discuss company size along with this question. If you're at a giant company, the answer is likely no, there's enough politicing and paperwork where the highest impact …

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    Comment #41723893

    This looks really nice! Curious if its running in production anywhere

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    Comment #39541897

    This is super cool. Haven't seen such a pragmatic framework for composing local LLM action, especially in rust

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    Comment #33697793

    Data policy, knowing what and how data is stored, would be good enough

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    Comment #33696625

    This looks really cool and something I would use, but I'd need to see more on data retention and security. Just by nature of the product it requires sharing a lot of potentially ve…

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    Comment #29072083

    Zora.co | Senior Infra Engineer | REMOTE or NYC | Full time | Visa possible About Zora: * Zora is a decentralized market protocol for NFTs * Globally distributed team, remote first…

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    Comment #22002839

    If anyone is looking to switch, I've far preferred using Insomnia to Postman https://insomnia.rest/

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    Comment #21520278

    We're still ironing out a few things but unit tests for various functions then we have smol statistically representative datasets for each model. In CI we train a model on the smal…

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    Comment #21519014

    What has worked fairly well so far: Models: - Models are structured as python packages, each model inherits a base class - base class has define how to train, and how to predict (a…

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