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wbnns

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Founder mru.space • ran bitcoin.org, led teams at Coinbase • editor of Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum • software that outlives its makers
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wbnns··on GitHub Outage: Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
Same but w/ Claude Code. Was wondering why I was getting internal server errors when trying to push.
wbnns··on Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
I've had the complete opposite experience, where adults often tell us they feel like our kids seem much older than their ages.

We lived in different countries where people speak a different language, during their earlier years, though, so maybe that also contributes to it.

wbnns··on Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
We haven't ever regretted the decision to do it with our 3 kids.
wbnns··on Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
Congrats on the new one that's on the way and thanks!
wbnns··on Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
16, 13, and 7.
wbnns··on Best code editor without AI?
Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/

And you can do live preview via plugins.

wbnns··on Ask HN: Is Mockup Data a thing you can ask from SaaS Salesperson?
> Is Mockup Data a thing you can ask from SaaS Salesperson?

I don't think there's any reason not to ask, and the worst they can say is no.

If it's a no, they might have something comparable that'd be helpful that they can share.

And if they have nothing, that's also good information to help you decide. :)

wbnns··on Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
Most of the time I just give Claude Code the PR link and then do the human side of the review based on the feedback it gives me.

Sometimes I'll prompt again to scrutinize further.

wbnns··on old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
I'm visiting from EU in a private tab and not getting any login prompts or redirects, fwiw.
wbnns··on Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
GitHub CLI -- I'm using it every day and just about anything I'd want to do on GitHub, I can do straight from the command line

https://cli.github.com/

wbnns··on Ask HN: Move AI news from Hacker News to somewhere else?
I think it's very relevant, consider it hacking-related, and like to see it here.
wbnns··on Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
It depends on the areas of the codebase getting touched.

If something highly sensitive, yes, and in general, a tendency to review with more scrutiny on backend changes.

But for frontend, less and less every week.

wbnns··on Be honest: When was the last time you cleaned up obsolete code from your repos?
> What if you could just licence the code to Anthropic, OpenAI or any other AI lab and make passive income every time its sold.

This is basically what I'm doing with the existing subscriptions I have. I can't remember the last time I cleaned up obsolete code, my coding agents do it for me now.

wbnns··on Ask HN: How are you preventing brainrot?
What's working well for me (ymmv):

- Going for a walk at least 1h a day

- Sitting 20min first thing in the morning in sun doing absolutely nothing

- Working out every day, even if just doing some pullups or pushups

- Trying to only use social media for work, not for pleasure

- Talking to AI (Claude) while Claude Code is running in different session, about topics that are interesting to me

I spent about 6-8h online every day on average

Hope it's helpful

wbnns··on Ask HN: Small team devs – how do you collab with UI/UX designers in the AI era?
Claude can read Figma links, so for me it's made it much easier to work with UI/UX folks on small teams.

And Figma has an MCP server which they talk about in this blog post: https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-claude-code-to-figma/

Hope that helps.

wbnns··on Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?
Biggest one for me is em dashes all throughout the content.
wbnns··on Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
Business: $250 on Claude Max

Personal: $19.99 on Google AI Pro

wbnns··on Ask HN: What browser do you use?
Google Chrome on Mac

Safari on iPhone

wbnns··on Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
Particularly in tech companies, I think we're in the midst of a shift toward folks that can own the work end to end from product, design, engineering, and beyond including with going to market.

People that can do this with a verifiable track record I think are in a good position to connect with job opportunities right now.

wbnns··on Ask HN: What email provider do you recommend for personal email?
As others have also mentioned, Fastmail is reputable with the added bonus that they have an MCP server, which would combine well with what you mentioned about wanting to be able to use with your AI agent.
wbnns··on Ask HN: How much Adderall do you use?
Used to take 10mg throughout middle school, high school, and some college

Was prescribed for ADD

Glad I got off it

wbnns··on Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
I had the opportunity to maintain https://bitcoin.org/ for a few years. I'm proud that in that time I was able to help a bunch of new people all around the world learn about and get starting using bitcoin.

At the same time, it was difficult working with the domain owners behind it who at times were self-serving and very ad-hoc with respect to wanting to push their own agendas.

So definitely one of my most proud projects, but also bittersweet. :/

wbnns··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I left my job at the end of June; I'm tired of playing someone else's music and want to write my own songs (build my own apps)

So I'm building an app a week and focusing on solving niche problems I've experienced in my own life to start

I think it's never been easier to build prototypes, but because of all of the slop, building community and finding users around them are harder than ever before

This latter part I think is going to be the hardest part of going out on my own

But going to try

Things I'm working on right now:

https://a2ciple.pt/ - testing prep for a language exam required for residency & citizenship in Portugal

https://basehub.org/ - a docs site for agents to get the latest context on Base, an Ethereum L2

https://playgokab.com/ - a vocab game to learn words in diff languages

https://mru.space/ - a protocol to run software that gracefully degrades across failing hardware

https://shiponeshot.com/ - a framework to help me ship prototypes more quickly

Anyhow, cheers :)

wbnns··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
Congrats Yahia, cool to see all the progress and momentum behind what you all are building.
wbnns··on Show HN: 18 Words
Great game, well done
wbnns··on Show HN: Claude Extender – Autonomous Agent Management for Claude Code
Hey HN, I built Claude Extender because I wanted a way to run multiple instances of Claude Code (e.g. agents). The core idea: agents are markdown files. The YAML frontmatter defines schedule, tools, cost limits, and notifications. The markdown body is the instruction Claude follows. A daemon runs in the background, spawning claude -p when agents are due.

There are three execution modes:

* Scheduled, cron-based. For example, my daily email triage runs at 6 AM, processes ~50 emails, archives the noise, and sends me a Telegram summary before I wake up.

* Watcher, event-driven. A cheap check script (JS/Python) polls for changes. Only triggers Claude when something actually happened.

* Persistent, long-running sessions with heartbeats, checkpoints, and restart policies.

Tools use MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that you write and control. No plugin marketplace, no third-party code touching your credentials. Cost tracking is first-class. Every run logs its cost in USD. Per-run limits, daily budgets, monthly caps. The daemon pauses everything if you hit your budget. This matters when agents run unsupervised.

Everything is plain text, agent definitions, run logs, memory, cost ledgers. git diff your agents, grep your run history. I'm currently running this on a $5/mo Hetzner VPS.

Requirements: Node.js 20+ and the Claude Code CLI.

Anyhow, hope it's helpful and happy to answer any questions.

wbnns··on We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
The collected bounty on this should have been so much higher than $14K :/
wbnns··on x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments
Would you have said the same if I told you last year that the president and first lady would each have a memecoin?
wbnns··on x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments
Debatable but IMO Lightning is still nascent even to this day. There is no real large ecosystem of interactive web applications available in-browser that you can build 402 offerings on top of. The EVM is light years ahead.

I'm by no means against Lightning, it's just got a long road of ecosystem, development and better UX ahead of it before we see general mainstream adoption. At the moment, bitcoin's killer feature is holding bitcoin. Most people don't know what Sats are. There are few bitcoin-payable apps. Few stable assets that remove volatility for every day payments like you would need with 402. Stuff like that.

wbnns··on x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments
It's pretty trivial to set up, here's a link to the docs: https://x402.gitbook.io/x402

Transactions confirm every 2 seconds on Base, and preconfirm even faster (every 200ms); there's no lag from a peer to peer payments perspective since they settle so quickly.

Through account abstraction and spend permissions, you also don't have to wait and authorize every single payment. It's a customizable from a developer perspective depending on how they want to build out their application.

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