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montenegrohugoon Show HN: Peanut – A Modern Money App

Thanks! Do you like the flashy design, or the actual UX of the app?

US and EU banking rails are both fully supported!

montenegrohugoon Show HN: Peanut – A Modern Money App

We're literally adding it this week! Give me your email or some place to reach you, i'll notify you

You can also try the dev build at https://staging.peanut.me but it's quite unstable atm

montenegrohugoon Show HN: Peanut – A Modern Money App

neat technical sidenote: to stay non-custodial, the "key" parameter in these links is after a # hash. This ensures servers don't actually see this link-secret and steal the funds!

montenegrohugoon Show HN: Peanut – A Modern Money App

Just to show how easy it is to send/receive money with Peanut, here's a few links with $2 each.

(they are only claimable once, so please be courteous and don't claim all, leave some for other users!)

1. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5778#p=ms74xIbdGVSK...

2. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5779#p=G7V82WybXthy...

3. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5780#p=Rgpymby5wBbO...

4. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5781#p=6F5nKWjx2Kf6...

5. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5782#p=DtdJ0y2Ufayu...

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

Peanut | Froject Manager | REMOTE | Full-Time | >= $40-110k + 0.5-2% equity

We're bringing currency back to cryptocurrency. We care a LOT about UX and are at the forefront of chain and account abstraction. We’re making crypto actually usable as a currency and not just a degenerate gambling fiesta.

We are VC-funded ($1.4m pre-seed), advised by heavyweights like ex-venmo CTO, and founded by Harvard alum.

Apart from Project Manager, we have some other roles we're hiring for. Review and find them here: https://peanut.to/jobs (and list HN as the place you learned about us!)

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: What browser to use after Google limits adblockers?

Today Google Chrome disabled my adblocker, and the internet with ads experience shocked me.

I can still re-enable it, but it seems like June 2025 is the actual deadline for support removal. Ostensibly because uBlock Origin doesn't comply with Googles "best practices", but in reality because it threatens their business model.

Now I'm faced with the personal question of which browser to migrate to. The whole ecosystem seems very unhealthy to me, with Firefox getting 80% of their revenue because of Google, Brave being based on Chromium, and there virtually not being any other independent browser because writing a browser is an insanely complex undertaking.

Thoughts from the HN crowd?

montenegrohugoon How do I pay the publisher of a web page?

Honestly this is one of the main usecases of crypto, in my opinion. And it's only in 2024 where the transaction costs are cheap enough that it's worth it.

Still, fragmentation of crypto makes the whole experience shitty - but we've been working on this to fix that: https://docs.peanut.to/checkout-api

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

Peanut | Founding Software Engineer (Frontend Web3) | REMOTE | Full-Time | >= $60-110k + 0.5-2% equity

We are VC-funded ($1.4m pre-seed), advised by heavyweights like ex-venmo CTO, and founded by Harvard alum.

Please fill out the form at https://peanut.to/jobs and list HN as the place you learned about us. We're excited build together!

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

We'll have the JD up on Monday, in the meantime you can apply to the "General Nut" position!

Self-taught is perfectly fine, as long as you're really good :)

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

Peanut | Founding Software Engineer (Frontend Web3) | REMOTE | Full-Time | >= $70-110k + 1-2% equity

We are VC-funded ($1.4m pre-seed), advised by heavyweights like ex-venmo CTO, and founded by Harvard alum.

Please fill out the form at https://peanut.to/jobs and list HN as the place you learned about us.

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

More about us: - https://x.com/uwwgo - https://x.com/0xkkonrad - https://x.com/peanutprotocol

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

Peanut | Founding Software Engineer (Mobile, Fullstack) | REMOTE | Full-Time | >= $70-110k + 1-2% equity

We're bringing currency back to cryptocurrency. We care a LOT about UX and are at the forefront of chain and account abstraction. We’re making crypto actually usable as a currency and not just a degenerate gambling fiesta.

We are VC-funded ($1.4m pre-seed), advised by heavyweights like ex-venmo CTO, and founded by Harvard alum. There are two official roles, but we welcome conversations with anyone interested in joining the team.

Please fill out the form at https://peanut.to/jobs and list HN as the place you learned about us.

montenegrohugoon Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty

Certik has a terrible rep in the crypto ecosystem

They're ostensibly an audit/security firm, but miss many vulns

Most egregiously recently they tried to blackmail Kraken, a big exchange, for $2m

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)

Peanut Protocol | Senior Backend/Full Stack Engineer | FULLY REMOTE (Europe) | https://peanut.to

We're a pretty early stage startup in crypto. We make payments easier. We love an aligned team, good vibes, and shipping well. High equity & token comp if you want it (we'd love that).

please reach out here: https://www.notion.so/peanutprotocol/Fullstack-Generalist-93...

see you!

montenegrohugoon Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow

That's a number wrong by an order of magnitude - there's been 118 starlink launches (with many of those being rideshares).

Falcon 9 costs 67 million for external customers, for internal use the cost will likely be lower. Let's say 50. 50 * 118 gives us a HIGH estimate of 5.6 billion, but i'd expect it to be much closer to 3-4 b.

Satellites are relatively cheap. Total cost below 10b, certainly not 40b

montenegrohugoon France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language

This doesn't feel like legislation meant to protect the consumer, at all.

montenegrohugoon Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator

Have loved HTMX for small projects so far, quite delightful.

Does anyone know what they have on the roadmap for 2.0? I'm curious what they are working towards.

montenegrohugoon Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99

Do it! Put your money where your mouth is and get ez $ (and help shape a more accurate estimate!)

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)

Peanut Protocol | EU-based REMOTE | Full-time | https://peanut.to/jobs | https://peanut.to

Bring currency back to cryptocurrency. Build a world where value flows freely through buttery smooth transactions.

At Peanut Protocol, we’re mission-driven. We’re seed stage hiring our first employees.

1. Product Obsessed Frontend Engineer

2. Privacy and Crosschain Obsessed Protocol Engineer

3. Senior Growth

# You want to:

- be super early, founder-lite experience as one of the first (lots of equity, lots of ownership)

- ship fast and have fun

# This is what you get: - lots of equity so you can grow with us 1000X

- base salary range 60-120k + equity. Pay depends on skills, experience, location, preferences, our business needs etc.

- job at company called Squirrel Labs (how cool is that?!)

- remote-first

- unlimited holidays

- equipment, learning and other biz-related expenses

- team events (mostly US & Europe)

- important comms typed all in lowercase and with obscure emojis xdd

Pls fill out this form: https://forms.gle/XJS4HHdn6xPV3z6p6

montenegrohugoon Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99

Manifold markets jumped to ~40% likelihood (briefly around 60%) after this paper was published.

montenegrohugoon Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, science and technology

Can't access this from Europe - why not?

montenegrohugoon How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset

Yup, totally. This is a form of knowledge distillation. Openai, or other foundational model providers, can't really do anything about it.

montenegrohugoon How to do hard things

Sounds like Naval Ravikant - it's a method that has struck a chord with me too.

montenegrohugoon PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”

And people ask why we need decentralized payments.

We're building Tools to get rid of paypal/visa/mastercard and other rent seekers.

Here's mine: https://peanut.to

There's lots of other people building useful stuff in the space.

My dms are open if anyone wants to chat

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

https://peanut.to

Project Description: We make it possible to send crypto ($ or NFTs) with just a link.

How to test: Connect your wallet and try sending some small $ amount to your friends :)

Also would love any type of feedback! What features would you like to see, what integrations do you are possible with these type of magic links?

thanks!

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

For now we're on EVM's, yes (Ethereum but also it's Layers 2s and sidechains)

But we really want to deploy on all sorts of chains and offer very very simple UX for users. No one should have to care about bridging between chains or swapping or what currency they are getting paid in. If crypto is to get mass adoption, stuff should be dead simple.

Rest of the stack: - postgres DB - Flask Backend - Alpine JS / TailwindCSS / HTMX / ethersjs / web3modal on Frontend (and then obviously the decentralized smart contracts)

Happy to answer other questions!

montenegrohugoon Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

I'm trying to make a dent in the UX of crypto. Currently, it really really sucks.

The first thing we've built is https://peanut.to - a way to pay people with just a link.

Happy to take feedback and suggestions!

montenegrohugoon Evolution of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus protocol

What's the hangup with normal tutorials? There's a plethora of tutorials online.

People recommend ethernauts[1] and cryptozombies[2], but I found those quite slow when I was learning. Most useful for me was reading existing implementations of smart contracts, and learning from there.

M1guelpf wrote these a while ago, might be helpful examples: https://github.com/m1guelpf/lil-web3

happy to chat if you need help

[1] https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/

[2] https://cryptozombies.io

montenegrohugoon State of the Sanderson 2022

This is the stuff I love. Sanderson doesn't _have_ to take a stand against Audible , and yet he does. Of course he is in a position of privilege to be able to do it, but so many other people are too and act very differently.

Audible giving creators only a 25% cut (or 40% if they sign an exclusive deal) is absolutely exploitative. For a DIGITAL product! That's insane.

Props to Sanderson, and props to all the other people with integrity.

montenegrohugoon Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

Instead of using "manmade", which further promotes male-dominated language, they propose using "hand made".

Isn't hand made ableist? What about the people with no hands? Can't they create things without the usage of hands?

This is a never ending rabbithole of idiocy.