🔥⚒️ NEW FOUNDRY RELEASE 🔥⚒️ Announcing Anvil, a blazing-fast local testnet node implementation, in Rust! You can consider Anvil a drop-in replacement for `ganache-cli` or `hardhat node`, for deploying & testing your contracts from frontends or interacting over RPC. 1/N

Regardless of the track record, super cool to see Susan Wojcicki getting involved with the ban.

really does feel like everything everywhere all at once

If you could only attend 100 crypto conferences per year, which would they be?

Un/der collateralized web3 loans are a prerequisite to any debate about the viability of mortgages on the blockchain.

Lots of discussion of pandemic growth having been "pull forward" vs "new trendline". However, one place where latter story seems true is entrepreneurship: Stripe @Atlas incorporations were +90% Y/Y in Nov 2020, roughly flat in 2021, and now up *another* +54% Y/Y in Nov 2022.

LeetCoders around the world rejoicing

thread/ the biggest opportunity for generative AI x games is unlocking new categories of play 🎮 we're seeing early glimpses of new AI-first games and the potential is massive. innovation > saving time or money a few areas we're excited about 👇 a16z.com/2023/07/19/the…

The SST developer experience is one of the best I’ve seen in awhile. Always hated building serverless until now.

All eight authors of the transformer paper have now left Google.

Since upgrading our platform from GPT 3 to 4, it’s amazing how much better the starting point is for new features and experiments.

Nat Friedman Some colleagues and I have been studying the impact of ChatGPT on SO using data on posts, not views: arxiv.org/abs/2307.07367 Besides a big decrease after ChatGPT, we observe a completely flat 2022, and earlier a big bump in activity during early Covid.

I know we aren't at 100% yet but has anyone else mentioned that we can build the solar array in the Sahara to power the whole planet now if it works

For everyone wondering how to invest in room temperature superconductors right now: stockx.com/nike-air-mag-b…

Wild to witness the PR push by @Cruise since the cones on hoods trend. Full page ad in NYT, impact/social good commercials, patches on SF Giants jerseys. Wonder the ROI so far

it's public - udacity (a real site with users) is hosting their NextJS application through SST and OpenNext on AWS they're not the only ones - we've seen huge deployments going this route seeing a path where this becomes how the majority of NextJS projects are deployed

Gaming devs giving OSS Godot Engine extra attention after the Unity pricing debacle!

Clever hack takes advantage of UI to hide exfiltration. Many won’t even inspect tool args in the first place. Lots of opportunity for security-minded MCP middleware. Tool hashing, toolbox isolation, runtime proxying list and execution requests.

Wild that Google allows newlines in OAuth app names

Is your app’s home screen a vertically centered textbox with round buttons underneath? OpenAI and Anthropic are chasing you.