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wbnns

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About wbnns

Apps & aerospace • ran bitcoin.org, led teams at Coinbase • editor of Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum • building money machines & forever systems

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    As others have also mentioned, Fastmail is reputable with the added bonus that they have an MCP server, which would combine well with what you mentioned about wanting to be able to…

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    Comment #49265451

    Used to take 10mg throughout middle school, high school, and some college Was prescribed for ADD Glad I got off it

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    Comment #49252040

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    Show HN: Ohm – Use uBlock Origin cosmetic filters in Chrome again

    Ohm parses uBlock Origin cosmetic filter lists client-side and turns them into a real Manifest V3 Chrome extension scoped to exactly a list of sites. It's free, open source, and co…

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    Comment #49250706

    I had the opportunity to maintain https://bitcoin.org/ for a few years. I'm proud that in that time I was able to help a bunch of new people all around the world learn about and ge…

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    Comment #49244164

    I left my job at the end of June; I'm tired of playing someone else's music and want to write my own songs (build my own apps) So I'm building an app a week and focusing on solving…

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    Comment #48857649

    Congrats Yahia, cool to see all the progress and momentum behind what you all are building.

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    Comment #48845962

    Great game, well done

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    Comment #48433975

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    Comment #47022557

    Hey HN, I built Claude Extender because I wanted a way to run multiple instances of Claude Code (e.g. agents). The core idea: agents are markdown files. The YAML frontmatter define…

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    Comment #46334613

    The collected bounty on this should have been so much higher than $14K :/

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    Comment #45350088

    Would you have said the same if I told you last year that the president and first lady would each have a memecoin?

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    Comment #45350063

    Debatable but IMO Lightning is still nascent even to this day. There is no real large ecosystem of interactive web applications available in-browser that you can build 402 offering…

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    Comment #45349984

    It's pretty trivial to set up, here's a link to the docs: https://x402.gitbook.io/x402 Transactions confirm every 2 seconds on Base, and preconfirm even faster (every 200ms); there…

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    Comment #45349912

    Yep! Here: https://www.x402.org/ecosystem

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    It's really difficult to build agentic applications on top of Bitcoin. It's generally possible throughout the EVM however, which is many networks, not just Base. Base won't be the …

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    > The protocol boast "no fee" but that's deceptive: if it's based upon a blockchain, there will be transaction fees. These days many transaction types onchain are completely free a…

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    Comment #45289147

    You're absolutely right!

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    Comment #45180061

    Cheers, yes, this is inspired by it.

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    Comment #45179264

    > A blockchain is the world's slowest database. It's dependent on how performant the underlying protocol is, not all blockchains are the same.