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John Hilliard

@praetorian

Making blockchains fast. Focused on performance, reliability, and tools at @0xPolygon || Boston || @MIT

Brookline, MA Katılım Mart 2007
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John Hilliard@praetorian·
Weekend project complete! I wanted to be able to write EVM Smart Contracts with Common Lisp. It's very low level, but still easier than writing byte codes.
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will button@0xWillButton·
Everyone sees the token go live. Nobody sees the 3am Slack messages, the audit re-runs, the moment your Senior Protocol Engineer says "I found something" and your stomach drops. We shipped Katana today. OP Stack + SP1 proofs + Agglayer. The boring work is done. Now the fun part.
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zarinjo@zarinjo·
It’s exciting to see people discovering tla+ as great fit for agentic use cases. You might want to try out @quint_lang, based on the same core, but coming with a modern syntax and tooling perfect for AI use case (although we built it long time before LLMs) quint-lang.org/posts/cognitiv…
BOOTOSHI 👑@KingBootoshi

HOLY FUK I JUST LEARNED ABOUT TLA+ AND IT'S SO GOOD FOR AGENTIC CODING ur telling ME that i can mathematically fact check every possible scenario of my design STATE to prevent bugs and crashes AND IF IT FINDS SOMETHING THE AGENTS GET INSTANT FEEDBACK AND LOOP FIXING IT TILL IT ALL POSSIBLE BUGS IN THE DESIGN ARE PATCHED LOL THIS IS OP

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Raul Riesco, PhD
Raul Riesco, PhD@rriescog·
Clearly that single checkbox is not enough to protect users. We should never allow such a swap without enough “high level quality consent” despite permission-less nature.
Stani.eth@StaniKulechov

Earlier today, a user attempted to buy AAVE using $50M USDT through the Aave interface. Given the unusually large size of the single order, the Aave interface, like most trading interfaces, warned the user about extraordinary slippage and required confirmation via a checkbox. The user confirmed the warning on their mobile device and proceeded with the swap, accepting the high slippage, which ultimately resulted in receiving only 324 AAVE in return. The transaction could not be moved forward without the user explicitly accepting the risk through the confirmation checkbox. The CoW Swap routers functioned as intended, and the integration followed standard industry practices. However, while the user was able to proceed with the swap, the final outcome was clearly far from optimal. Events like this do occur in DeFi, but the scale of this transaction was significantly larger than what is typically seen in the space. We sympathize with the user and will try to make a contact with the user and we will return $600K in fees collected from the transaction. The key takeaway is that while DeFi should remain open and permissionless, allowing users to perform transactions freely, there are additional guardrails the industry can build to better protect users. Our team will be investigating ways to improve these safeguards going forward.

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John Hilliard@praetorian·
Instead of freeing us for higher-level thinking, there is a risk that AI is degrading the quality communication. Instead of crisp, hard-won insights, we're trading 10-page AI-drafted memos that nobody has time to read wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-isn… via @WSJ
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vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin·
"Friendship ended with drawio, vibecoded SVG is my new friend"
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TODO auto research style agent for performance optimizing the cache / db configs for a given server
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stacksmashing
stacksmashing@ghidraninja·
Simple age check for Linux: Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot. If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip addr they deserve to be restricted from their computer 😇
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Mudit Gupta@Mudit__Gupta·
If you don't get to the point in first two sentences of your message or email, you're not getting a response.
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Variety
Variety@Variety·
#BillDuke, the character actor best known for playing Mac in “Predator” and Cooke in “Commando,” now has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ⭐️
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John Hilliard@praetorian·
Tried out Kimi, Codex, GLM, Gemini, and Opus for a LaTeX template. The only one that worked in one shot is Opus.
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John Hilliard@praetorian·
@eduadiez Opus and GLM were the only models that didn’t render a blank page lol. Opus was basically perfect. GLM looked wrong but would probably be easy to fix.
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@eduadiez I didn't. I'll give it the same prompt and see
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TracketPacer@TracketPacer·
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Chris@criccomini·
The 2nd edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by @martinkl and me, is finished and sent to the printers! Ebooks available next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
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Polygon | POL
Polygon | POL@0xPolygon·
BREAKING: Polygon to become U.S. regulated payments platform We’re acquiring Coinme and Sequence to move all money onchain. → Regulated money movement in 48 states → Fiat on/off ramps → 50,000 fiat-to-crypto locations in the U.S. → Easy onboarding with wallet infra → 1-click crypto transactions across chains All vertically integrated in the Polygon Open Money Stack.
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