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A provocative question is circulating in AI circles today: is the Model Context Protocol already finished? A post from engineering blog Quandri argues that MCP, the emerging standard meant to connect AI agents with external tools, may be losing momentum before it ever found its footing. With sixty points and fifty-two comments on Hacker News, the debate is clearly striking a nerve among developers watching the agentic AI space evolve in real time.
Meanwhile, John Gruber at Daring Fireball is asking a different kind of question — what exactly is a dickover? His piece, which climbed to forty-three points on Hacker News, unpacks the term as a specific flavor of bad-faith maneuvering in tech and business dealings. It's a short read, but the concept resonates with anyone who's watched a platform quietly change the rules on the people who built for it.
And in a story that sits at the uncomfortable intersection of crypto wealth and physical safety, reports are emerging of a sharp rise in kidnappings and violent attacks targeting high-value cryptocurrency holders. Unlike a hacked wallet, these are real-world threats — and they underscore how visible and vulnerable so-called whales have become as digital fortunes grow harder to hide.
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