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DOGE cuts $5B Pentagon consulting contracts.

Comment on HN

Pretty wild to see thirdweb RPC infra handling 25k requests/second consistently! 🤯

16B+ weekly requests through our globally available infra, powering 1,000+ EVM mainnets.

When we say we enable onchain apps to scale, we real mean scale.

Has anyone figured out why TradingView charts are broken in Coinbase wallet.

Frame: https://github.com/jc4p/mintable-frame
Contract: https://github.com/jc4p/mintable-frame-contract
Server: https://github.com/jc4p/mintable-frame-server

Would love for others to try this and let me know if all the documentation makes sense!!

Finally took care of the slow loads on GitCast.dev by building my own data pipeline using Cloudflare Worker Queues and a D1 database. 

Overkill for a side project? Perhaps, but I also learned a ton, and that alone makes the time worth it in my book.

GitCast surfaces the bangers. Also, I think devs should be more funny in commit messages.

What’s the upside to this? I can only think of negatives.

What’s the upside to this? I can only think of negatives. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h1-element-styles/

Finally got my Apple Dev account approved this morning!

Coming soon, my first iOS app, which of course has an AI running underneath.

Will share the link.

quick reminder:

Don't think of servers as meaning machines-on-the-internet, MCP servers are (usually) programs you install and run on your own computer.

Is it me or has Cursor gotten worse? 

The auto-complete has been getting in the way, need to reload the entire thing few times a day and other random issues

math

This is the most beautiful and accessible animated audiovisual explanation for lambda calculus / functional programming I’ve ever seen 🤯

“In a world where everything is a function, you can do things that normal math just does not permit, and strange emergent behavior is the norm.”

https://youtu.be/RcVA8Nj6HEo

We’ve been thinking about launching a “pre-launch” community for Convos but actually using our product just knowing it’s early access. 

Be an owner of the future, shape it, get your username, and help us shape the future of private and secure communication. 

Would you join?

what's the best way to do this?
> knowledge base for a local LLM running completely offline, privately on my own computer

Don't vibe code smart contracts with ChatGPT.

Just don't

Why aren't there more devs building things in crypto?