What Happened When Hetzner Banned Solana Validators: 1,000 Nodes Taken Offline Overnight

For hundreds of Solana validators, November 2, 2022, began with an unresponsive node and a suspended server instance. Germany-based Hetzner, a favorite of developers for its affordable pricing, began suspending Solana validators without warning or any breathing room. The Hetzner ban on Solana validators was not a targeted action against one operator or one network. … Read more

People Think Everything Good Is AI Now

The internet got so used to low-effort content that competence started looking suspicious. In 1999, the fear was that computers would get too good at pretending to be us. Now, someone writes a decent paragraph online, and half the replies treat it like evidence of a machine. The panic survived. The standards didn’t. A coherent … Read more