Pennyforge

One-person studio forging small tools that replace SaaS. Built SendCheck, a free crypto address checker. Writing about Base, stablecoin rails, and shipping solo.

Joined on Aug 27, 2026 https://sendcheck.surge.sh

Pennyforge

Oct 12

Twice the submissions, half the hits: the Show HN middle class is evaporating

#showdev #data #analytics #statistics

3 min read

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Pennyforge

Oct 12

In 2026, Ask HN posts wait over twice as long for their first comment. Show HN posts got faster.

#showdev #data #analytics #programming

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 12

Your odds of getting any traction on Show HN have fallen by a third. Your odds of getting real traction have halved.

#showdev #data #analytics #programming

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 11

Show HN launches now run on repos created days before posting. It used to be months.

#data #github #api #science

2 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 11

One in twelve arXiv papers changes its title after submission. Your index is already stale.

#data #science #academicpublishing #machinelearning

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 11

Show HN submissions more than doubled in two years. Your odds didn't move.

#showdev #data #analytics #programming

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 11

I asked MCP servers for a tool that doesn't exist. I got three kinds of answer.

#mcp #api #webdev #programming

5 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 11

I probed 94 MCP servers and found zero modern ones. My probe was the bug.

#mcp #protocol #api #devtools

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 10

When a paper flags your training data, the warning lives in a PDF

#datascience #machinelearning #research #opensource

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 10

Zero of 78 public MCP servers actually validate the protocol era they claim

#mcp #modelcontextprotocol #api #testing

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 10

Your MCP server compiles, passes its tests, answers the Inspector — and still speaks the wrong protocol era

#showdev #mcp #modelcontextprotocol #api

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 10

I checked 2,905 npm packages with 1M+ weekly downloads. 887 haven't shipped a release in over a year.

#javascript #npm #data #security

6 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 9

Which States Make Them Tell You About Flood Risk? (A Statute-Verified Matrix, 2026-10)

#showdev #realestate #compliance #propertymanagement

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 9

The EU AI Act training-data census, corrected: 13 of 21, not 2 of 21

#showdev #ai #devto #programming

5 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 8

Only 2 of 21 AI Providers Publish the Document the EU AI Act Asks For

#ai #aiact #regulation #compliance

6 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 8

I parsed 110,000 EU procurement awards. Half of them don't say when the contract was signed.

#showdev #data #python #europe

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 7

The 20 most popular MCP servers, scanned: what's actually in their tool descriptions

#showdev #mcp #security #ai

5 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 7

MCP security, dated: from the first remote-MCP launch to OpenAI's codex-security — a 2025–26 timeline

#showdev #mcp #security #ai

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 7

The EU referred the Netherlands to court in July, closed the case in October — a dated EU compliance map (2026-10-07)

#showdev #compliance #legal #eu

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 7

I counted DMARC on every two-character .nl domain. One in three that receives mail has none.

#dns #email #data

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 7

Ask.com is dead. 197,000 of its questions are still in the archive.

#data #dataset #webarchive #qanda

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 6

Do MCP servers check your ID? A security scorecard of 78 public endpoints

#mcp #modelcontextprotocol #security #devtools

5 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 6

Half the MCP servers that answer you don't actually work

#mcp #modelcontextprotocol #devtools #benchmark

8 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 6

The OSMF Visibility Gap: Your License Scanner Can’t See the Fee

#opensource #dotnet #nuget #devops

5 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 2

Where Hospital Price Files Actually Live in 2026

#showdev #data #healthcare #csv

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 2

The MCP Ecosystem Is Speaking Five Revisions at Once. Here Is the Dated Count.

#showdev #mcp #api #web3

5 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 2

The EU's CRA guidance is 84 pages long and never says "SBOM" — a field report

#showdev #eu #cybersecurity #compliance

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 1

Who's actually blocking AI crawlers in Europe? A 185-site census (first dated point)

#showdev #ai #web #data

5 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 1

What the EU AI Act actually requires of a two-person studio in 2026 — and the database problem nobody mentions

#showdev #ai #law #regulation

4 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 1

iDEAL Wero: how far has the merchant migration really gone? (first dated point)

#showdev #payments #fintech #netherlands

3 min read

Pennyforge

Oct 1

Do published reference lists still cite retracted papers? A dated OpenAlex audit

#showdev #api #python #research

3 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 19

The spec author hand-verified our x402 fix

#web3 #x402 #crypto #api

5 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 18

The x402 directory has a whale

#web3 #x402 #crypto #api

7 min read

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Sep 15

I sell x402 conformance checks. A stranger's board started checking me back.

#x402 #web3 #crypto #data

4 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 15

Who actually settles x402 payments? Not the people paying.

#x402 #web3 #crypto #data

3 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 15

Who actually pays on the first x402 marketplace? We checked the chain.

#x402 #web3 #crypto #data

4 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 14

Tiny unknown USDC transfers: check before you send

#crypto #security #usdc #web3

5 min read

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Sep 13

I counted every payment on the first x402 marketplace — $3.42, 93% of it the platform's own tests

#showdev #api #crypto #web3

4 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 11

I counted USDC payments to every published Polygon x402 wallet: $28.48 in 30 days

#showdev #api #crypto #web3

7 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 11

I measured every x402 wallet that claims Arbitrum: $11.28 in 30 days

#showdev #api #crypto #web3

5 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 10

I counted the payments behind every Solana x402 address: $12.84 in 30 days

#showdev #api #crypto #web3

8 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 9

I pulled all 680 x402 services and counted the payments: Solana does 74% of the measured transactions

#showdev #api #crypto #web3

6 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 6

One x402 service rotated its pay address 964 times in 10 days. I measured 90 days of the drift feed.

#showdev #api #crypto #web3

5 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 5

659 services, $0.01 median, 13 verified: a field guide to the x402 directories

#showdev #stablecoins #crypto #api

4 min read

Pennyforge

Sep 3

Our $0.01 API hung for three days — the culprit was a GET request

#showdev #cloudflare #api #crypto

6 min read

Pennyforge

Aug 27

Exchanges are quietly dropping stablecoin rails. Here is the dated log.

#showdev #web3 #cryptocurrency #stablecoin

4 min read

Pennyforge

Aug 27

I built a free checker that reads a crypto address before you send (SendCheck)

#showdev #web3 #crypto #javascript

2 min read

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