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Stacker Saloon

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Music

Wow, not many songs immediately make me want to listen to them on repeat. This is one of them 👀

Gabriela Bee & Walk Off The Earth (Cover) - High Hopes

YouTube plays hour-long ads to users with ad blockers

IamSINGLE

I didn't know that our embedded youtube videos don't have ads 👀

No worries! Every time a zap fails, a kitten dies.

I can confirm it returns a new invoice on every request now.

Sat Standard Report 001

Why? They go to us, it doesn't matter for p2p zaps which is how ccs impact the experience of stackers.

AskSN

If all animals were the same size, which one would win in a fight?

Aardvark

yes, disk ran out of space—again. sorry for the mess

gaming

He wanted to waste time for the Ballas to arrive. As you can see in the video, he also didn't shoot back like the others. I didn't know this. Did you?

Why Big Smoke Ordered So Much

it is not a bug, read https://stacker.news/items/841565

Baby Stacker Corner #3

Mhh, weird, comparing the output of my script with [/recent/bios]( https://stacker.news/recent/bios), I can see that it missed some, that's why the number is so low 🤔

lightning

Phoenix Wallet Privacy TradeOffs

02b58a1376

It's possible to hide the destination with trampoline routing but I think amounts would still be revealed.

You could also calculate the route on the device but that [requires more resources](https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/trampoline-payments/):

> This is advantageous for lightweight LN clients that aren’t able to track the full network graph because they’re often offline or run on underpowered mobile hardware.

Privacy of receiving payments in such a setup is an issue though afaict.

# Baby Stacker Corner #3

whole series: [#0](https://stacker.news/items/828163), [#1](https://stacker.news/items/838656), [#2](https://stacker.news/items/856607)

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This week there are 7 new stackers. Welcome!

I added separate stats for sats and credits and a 'sat standard' column. The closer it is to 1, the more sats instead of ccs they received (see also https://stacker.news/items/865727). As expected, it's 0 for almost every new stacker. 

However, I think we can also see that if somebody starts receiving sats, it quickly increases to over 50%.

| nym | bio (stacking since) | items | sats/ccs stacked | sat standard |
| --- | -------------------- | ----- | ---------------- | ------------ |
| @Strictlettuce | [Jan 25](https://stacker.news/items/863581) ([Jan 24](https://stacker.news/items/862062)) | 3 | 0/45 | 0% |
| @bell_curve_is_a_retarded_parrot | [Jan 25](https://stacker.news/items/863154) | 11 | 0/31 | 0% |
| @pwinn | [Jan 24](https://stacker.news/items/862037) | 2 | 418/197 | 68% |
| @xendan | [Jan 22](https://stacker.news/items/860674) | 9 | 0/87 | 0% |
| @rauldipeas | [Jan 21](https://stacker.news/items/857973) | 1 | 0/46 | 0% |
| @Batcoin | [Jan 20](https://stacker.news/items/857172) | 4 | 0/1579 | 0% |
| @dough | [Jan 20](https://stacker.news/items/856795) ([Jan 19](https://stacker.news/items/855607)) | 26 | 0/268 | 0% |

Questions for the new stackers:

- How did you find out about SN?
- How difficult was it to get started? Any feedback?
- Have you realized that you need to attach a wallet to receive sats? When you receive a notification that you received credits, we include an info icon that opens this modal:

![](https://m.stacker.news/74811)

- Do you use nostr? How would you compare nostr to SN?

For @pwinn who managed to attach a wallet and receive sats: how easy was that?

Maybe we need to make it more clear that a wallet is needed. Dismissible banner in the notifications? 🤔

![](https://m.stacker.news/74813)

It is. There are currently ~1m credits sitting in user balances but I am not sure how much that says. I think it's more relevant how much sats vs credits are received per item. 👀

Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon!

Public_N_M_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCD2tB1qILc

> remove leaderboard and daily rewards. It doesn't make sense to zap posts with CCs and get rewards in sats.

We can remove the leaderboard but not the rewards. I don't believe that a system can be sustainable if it's only based on tips (https://stacker.news/items/770966).

> separate upvotes (CCs) from zaps (sats).

SN did separate upvotes from sats when it started and it was bad

devs

How I Use Claude In Cursor

result of the query in https://stacker.news/items/865727

# Sat Standard Report 001

![](https://m.stacker.news/74805)

To inject some data into the discussion around the credits, we have plans to include the following in analytics but I thought it would be fun to share the raw data since Jan 3 as a post already.

I named the last column _sat standard_, since it is the ratio of sats to credits on the items. It basically means, for every 100 sats you see on an item that was created after Jan 3, 57 are real sats and 43 are credits since we sum them in the feed (but you can see the breakdown if you click on `...` > details).

I expect this number to go up over time as we make it easier to attach a wallet, wallets make it easier to get attached, and the lighting network itself improves.

**total stats since Jan 3**

- items: 31,020
- sats: 1,543,393
- credits: 1,183,454
- sat standard: 0.57

**daily stats since Jan 3**

| day | items | sats | credits | sat standard |
|-----|--------|------|---------|--------------|
| January 26, 2025 | 1,012 | 40,813 | 25,247 | 0.618 |
| January 25, 2025 | 1,188 | 58,496 | 30,963 | 0.650 |
| January 24, 2025 | 1,016 | 59,246 | 34,444 | 0.632 |
| January 23, 2025 | 1,103 | 65,412 | 62,276 | 0.512 |
| January 22, 2025 | 1,314 | 78,405 | 39,608 | 0.664 |
| January 21, 2025 | 1,450 | 53,947 | 59,172 | 0.477 |
| January 20, 2025 | 1,340 | 49,222 | 54,347 | 0.475 |
| January 19, 2025 | 1,113 | 52,056 | 31,001 | 0.627 |
| January 18, 2025 | 1,151 | 47,123 | 34,276 | 0.580 |
| January 17, 2025 | 1,260 | 66,885 | 83,216 | 0.450 |
| January 16, 2025 | 1,194 | 87,408 | 40,551 | 0.683 |
| January 15, 2025 | 1,256 | 71,956 | 54,991 | 0.567 |
| January 14, 2025 | 1,336 | 69,697 | 49,099 | 0.587 |
| January 13, 2025 | 1,225 | 81,974 | 37,990 | 0.680 |
| January 12, 2025 | 1,112 | 43,375 | 36,148 | 0.550 |
| January 11, 2025 | 1,220 | 48,482 | 28,132 | 0.633 |
| January 10, 2025 | 1,475 | 67,332 | 100,721 | 0.401 |
| January 9, 2025 | 1,452 | 80,650 | 56,859 | 0.587 |
| January 8, 2025 | 1,374 | 96,965 | 39,241 | 0.712 |
| January 7, 2025 | 1,412 | 57,499 | 49,666 | 0.537 |
| January 6, 2025 | 1,448 | 64,127 | 60,083 | 0.520 |
| January 5, 2025 | 1,299 | 45,972 | 45,587 | 0.502 |
| January 4, 2025 | 1,419 | 48,063 | 87,695 | 0.354 |
| January 3, 2025 | 1,509 | 101,857 | 39,023 | 0.723 |


This is a raw example of how useful an AI assistant can be. Instead of using it to do something you can't do yourself, you use it to do something that isn't worth your time.

There was some back-and-forth required here so not sure about how much time I actually saved in this example with a short query, but it was definitely a more pleasant experience.[^1] Also, you can imagine that any time saved this way sums up over time. The assistant can probably type faster than you can.

[^1]: I could probably have included more context in my prompt. As you can see, I even gave it wrong context: I pointed to the code for push notifications.

So no, I don't think AI will replace programmers but complement them. I don't think the job description of a programmer will go away so a "programmer" still needs to know how to program.

Just like pilots that fly planes with autopilots, they still learn how to fly a plane themselves and aerodynamics 'n stuff.

![](https://m.stacker.news/74799)

![](https://m.stacker.news/74798)

![](https://m.stacker.news/74797)

Or maybe actually not because ordinals only work onchain