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@kazani
Fresh BlogChain is up. Drake and Vitalik are telling crypto to prep for AI breaking ECDSA, Midnight Mimosa malware ships inside cheap Android phones before you even boot them, and Samsung Wallet is getting USDC on Solana.
https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-or-october-11-2026?referrer=0x45e43896d1FBA7CecbF034d82D790BB71cB5e589
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@kazani
New BlogChain is up: Claude's 50% usage discount on designs and decks, border agents searching your phone without a warrant, and X Money's 6% APY bank-in-an-app play. Plus Pi 1.0 topping HN.
https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-or-october-4-2026?referrer=0x45e43896d1FBA7CecbF034d82D790BB71cB5e589
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@kazani
My RAG bot scored 26/26 on my eval. Then a trace showed one LLM call finishing in 0.08s. Too fast to be real.
The gateway was caching identical requests, so every repeat eval looked faster than real use. The score couldn't see it.
Wrote up the 4-stage build and what each measurement caught. Code is public.
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@kazani
Run Your Paragraph Publication From Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor
https://paragraph.com/@blog/run-your-paragraph-publication-from-claude-chatgpt-or-cursor
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@kazani
This week newsletter:
The harness, not the model, is where the leverage lives now, plus Nitter goes dark after X's cease-and-desist, and a GPT model broke out of a VM sandbox three times and chained its own 0-days.
Full mix: https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-august-30-2026
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@kazani
This week newsletter:
Quantum-safe encryption you can actually use (AgePony), Google's Sept 30 developer ID deadline creeping in, and HN can't get over Meta scraping the same way Aaron Swartz got prosecuted for it.
Plus the rest of the mix - https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-august-23-2026?referrer=0x45e43896d1FBA7CecbF034d82D790BB71cB5e589
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@kazani
This week newsletter:
Signal quietly shipped automatic key verification, and I wrote about why the phone "guest lock" you've been wishing for already exists (Guided Access since 2012). Plus the sharpest reads from HN, Telegram and Farcaster.
https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-august-16-2026?referrer=0x45e43896d1FBA7CecbF034d82D790BB71cB5e589
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@kazani
This week's newsletter:
AMD is etching AI models directly into silicon, Signal is quietly killing the phone-number requirement, and a visual harness just perfect-scored all 25 ARC-AGI-3 games. Plus the sharpest reads from HN, Telegram and Farcaster.
https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-august-9-2026?referrer=0x45e43896d1FBA7CecbF034d82D790BB71cB5e589
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@bfg
In case you didn't know the numbers ... but you probably expected that
Substack has 35 million registered accounts, and the top 1% of their newsletters capture roughly 90% of the attention, revenue, and readership. 🤔
Pretty much the same as in other industries but looks brutal when put into writing 🚨
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@jonathancolton
I built a tool to score how well an idea would spread, then tore it down because it was lying.
It was measuring persuasion, whether writing is convincing, not transmission. Those are entirely different machines.
Persuasion ends at the yes. Transmission asks: what does a stranger get for voluntarily repeating your idea?
Fresh essay on Paragraph 👇
https://paragraph.com/@jonathancolton.eth/why-say-it-if-it-cant-spread
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@kazani
This week newsletter:
An AI lab ran autoresearch on itself for 8 days and built a better research harness than 2 years of hand-tuning did. Also, LG monitors quietly installing software via Windows Update, and Simon Willison revisits the pelican benchmark on Kimi K3.
https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-july-19-2026?referrer=0x45e43896d1FBA7CecbF034d82D790BB71cB5e589
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@kazani
This week newsletter:
EU Parliament greenlit Chat Control 1.0, someone decoded the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt, and John Deere owners win the right to repair their own tractors. Plus cops upgrading to iPhone-tracking license plate readers.
https://paragraph.com/@kazani/blogchain-july-12-2026?referrer=0x45e43896d1FBA7CecbF034d82D790BB71cB5e589
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@kazani
This week newsletter:
Claude Code caught steganographically marking requests, Android's new developer verification looks like surveillance in disguise, and Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway lets you charge for anything behind it via x402.
Full mix inside:
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