Thought of the weekend: Excel made it so easy for people to manipulate data. With the advance of AI+software engineering, what is the Excel equivalent? Is it something like MCP that also writes a bunch of code as a mean to an end; or is it something more specialized?

GOOD MORNING AND GOOD NEWS!🌞 💐 We are relieved to see the French National Assembly vote against the dangerous backdoor amendments in the Narcotrafficing law. To all of those who saw sense and stood against these pernicious proposals late into the evening, thank you!

This gotta be the best one yet 😭🤣 #ashtonhall #MorningRoutine

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🚨 NEW THREAT REPORT: Contagious Interview (DPRK) Launches a New Campaign Creating Three Front Companies to Deliver a Trio of Malware: BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, and OtterCookie. Full investigation: hubs.ly/Q03jNjVT0

🧵 1/3 Noir Research Grants #4 is all about developer tools. $200k pool to fund open-source tooling for the Noir zk language - things that make building faster, smoother, and more reliable. Sponsored by: Aztec Arbitrum Stellar | EthCC Cannes 📍 World Here’s what qualifies 👇

we've seen nothing yet! hosted a 9-13 yo vibe-coding event w. Robert Keus 👨🏼‍💻 this w-e (h/t Anton Osika – eu/acc Lovable Build) takeaway? AI is unleashing a generation of wildly creative builders beyond anything I'd have imagined and they grow up *knowing* they can build anything!

Real-Time Ethereum Proving is here. INTRODUCING: SP1 Hypercube

I canceled my HBO subscription because of this

Providing access to world class security audits to basically every builder. It sounds boring like any critical infrastructure. Happy to see this growing

We’re excited to share PayPal is bringing its stablecoin, PYUSD, to Stellar. When you need infrastructure that works beyond the hype—real payments, real merchants, real global reach—you build where millions already transact daily. stellar.org/press/paypal-p…

holy shit

AI has been chronically overhyped until about 4 years ago, but underhyped since then:

Pretty good alternative to ramp up on something new

It was this day 10 years ago, 30th of July 2015, that we changed the world forever. We were a small team of hackers in an office in Kreuzberg in Berlin and we had just launched the Ethereum network. The rest is history. Looking back at the last 10 years, I am excited about

Missed collab. This would be a hybrid proof of work with slashing (that takes a whole different meaning)

It's sometimes hard to grasp the significance of the reasoning and logic updates that are starting to emerge in powerful models, like GPT-5. Here's a *very simple* example of how powerful these models are getting. I took a recent NVIDIA earnings call transcript document that

In software this is called eventual consistency

The discipline required to be an open source contributor is also one of those things that feeds into a bunch of virtuous circles . Once you’ve experienced it favoring open source is just the “safe good default”.

Question of the day. Does vibe coding change the shape of the Ballmer peak drastically?