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new @METR_Evals research note from @whitfill_parker, @cherylwoooo, nate rush, and me. (chiefly parker!) we find that *half* of SWE-bench Verified solutions from Sonnet 3.5-to-4.5 generation AIs *which are graded as passing* are rejected by project maintainers.

@Corpetty Nice. Just found your site for the first time. Use Claude to update the links to your academic papers. I'd read them.

For a while I thought something was wrong with me. I had the relationships, the work, the purpose. And I was drowning in a loneliness that didn't make sense. So I wrote about it. About the armor men build, the armor women build, why neither of them can take it off, and what happens when someone finally sees it and can't unsee it. This is the most personal thing I've published. It's about masculinity, tenderness, and the courage it takes to stay soft in a world that rewards rigidity. bayesianpersuasion.com/posts/the-emot…

To combat the growing "age verification" threat to our personal sovereignty, users need to fully take back control of both the application they run and the data they store. This can be achieve by running decentralized software using a local-first, p2p data store.

Very cool proof of concept by EF researcher @nero_eth, our co-author on the stealth address ERC standards, demonstrating privacy preserving agentic interactions using stealth addresses. This leverages our SDKs under the hood. Very nice!

@austingriffith You found your people, Austin.

🤣 my ADHD ass is so good at flipping between seven different telegram chats talking to different bots doing different things all at once. 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞 let em cooook ⚙️

for the release of the Whole Earth Redux, I OCRed/indexed/embedded all 22,000 pages of the Whole Earth Catalog and built a searchable archive — it’s up at searchwhole.earth !

@avsa I sometimes walk the six blocks to City Hall to pay my city taxes at a teller window--no lines. It's literally 1,000 times better than using the internet for the same task. Plus, I get a paper receipt without having to use my flaky printer. I'm American.

Is “mailing a check” an actual thing Americans do in 2025 or is this only in tv shows?

I'm not sure I believe this (yet), but I've been thinking along these lines for a while. The argument that AI naturally builds on crypto rails seems like wishful thinking to me. Thoughts? ai.gopubby.com/anthropic-is-k…

@CupOJoseph Admittedly, this may be dated, but are you sure you want to use the word "all"? @tjayrush/trueblocks-comparison-with-alchemy-covalent-and-etherscan-8a0e68fa69d3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@tjayrush/true…

@banteg @CupOJoseph Or you use the unchained index, Jesus God

@CupOJoseph i must've missed the part where you can run alchemy on your computer? oh wait you can't. this is literally the symptom of the problem i'm describing. you can sync a 3tb node and it's still useless for account-centric querying unless you rely on some third-party indexers.

@banteg This is literally why I built the unchained index 10 years ago. Blockchain’s are not databases. Things that are not databases cannot serve applications. Something like the unchained index should be part of the node and should have been from the first day.

just had a mind-boggling realization that i had used and developed on ethereum for almost ten years and the default rpc experience hasn’t improved even a little bit over that time.

Rather than wait around hoping the city or other news orgs will start producing this info with the consistency and detail that we need, we’re just going to start reporting the news ourselves, hiring freelance writers for monthly meeting beats and publishing it all on Substack

@Degen_CPA I’m not sure of the math, but I think if you go 3/4 of the speed of light, then show your ruler to whomever you want to show it to as long as they’re stationary that would work as well. But maybe you have to be stationary. YMMV.

Hi guys, I want to buy a 12 inch ruler, that has all the marks on it, showing the inch, half inch, and quarter inch lines up to 12 inches. But I don't want it to be 12 inches, I want it to be 9 inches in total length, so that each inch is actually 3/4th of an inch. So like a 12 incher ruller that is fake, so that it would make whatever I'm measuring appear larger than what it is. Does anyone know of a place that would sell this?

@the_transit_guy The 1800 block of Delancy Street in Philadelphia, just after sunset when the lights come on.

If an alien came down and asked you to show them the most beautiful neighborhood in all of the United States, where would you take them?

@fubuloubu I'd sell my Ether, then I would ask you how you run the AI locally, then I would regret selling my Ether. :-) Can you run the AI locally? If not, it's the same exact problem.

@heynmodi Exactly my point. Plus, I think starting from a pure greenfield is the key. No legacy code. None.

@trueblocks start thinking purely in product logic, you actually understand the system architecture better. The abstraction level forces clearer thinking about what you're actually building vs how

I've been 100% pure vibe-coding for more than a month, by which I mean I don't look at a single line of the AI's code. I understand my code better now than I ever have. The conversation is at a much higher level. I tell it what I want...I get exactly what I want.

@heckerhut @meinharrd @IPFS @ethswarm You may find both of these articles interesting. We've been thinking of exactly this idea for a long time. Since before Mist even died. tjayrush.medium.com/mist-ii-reveng… tjayrush.medium.com/final-report-f…

A few weeks ago @meinharrd reached out to me with an exciting idea: a new browser built specifically for the decentralized web, with local nodes for @IPFS and @ethswarm I immediately requested access to the codebase to start contributing 👩🏻‍🍳 Today we release Freedom Browser 👇🏻

@Nh_Ngocc18 I've become convinced that someone will find my work, rusty and stone-encrusted, underneath an Incan Pyramid 22 centuries hence. I await the day...

@trueblocks infra ahead of its time always feels lonely before the meta catches up

I just published "Final Report for EF Grant FY24–1558 — TrueBlocks MiniDapps" This is how Ethereum dApps should work. 100% decentralized. 100% private. 100 times faster. medium.com/p/final-report…

@panditdhamdhere I’ve never in my life, seen a more perfect example of the idea of “middleman”. In this image, “server” is the middleman. The chances of this turning out to be in the benefit of the “client” in the future is exactly zero. Go back to the drawing board.

x402 V2 just opened the door to what an internet-native payments standard should actually look like. After processing 100M+ transactions in six months, the team didn’t just upgrade the protocol; they redefined how payments work for APIs, apps, and AI agents. Well, v2 expands far beyond single-call payments -- multi-chain support EVM, Non-EVM chains, fiat compatibility via CAIP, dynamic payTo routing, a fully modular SDK, extensions for identity & discovery, and most importantly, wallet-based access that eliminates repaying on every single request. If the agentic economy really takes off, payments can’t stay in the “send-and-wait” model. They need to be instant, identity-aware, access-based, and extensible. x402 V2 is moving exactly in that direction.