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Igor Shtein
Personal blog · shtein.meprogrammingweb
Igor Shtein writes Igor's corner, a personal blog at shtein.me about programming and web. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The post describes an experiment in monetising a static blog with x402 payments, using a paid joke API. Comments discuss the API's implementation and an agent wallet service, not the writing.
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Igor Shtein's notes on backend development, Flutter, DevOps and self-hosting — things I know I'll want to reference later, and you 🧑🔧 may find useful too.
What Hacker News says?
You should give AgentCash [0] a spin. AgentCash is an x402 wallet + gateway for your agent. It can use any of the available paid APIs and even search them to find the right one for your task. Tell your agent "Set up agentcash.dev and use it to get a joke from http://shtein.me/api/joke " [0] https://agentcash.dev/
Comment linking /api/joke
on “X402, a static blog monetization excercise”Submitted X402, a static blog monetization excercise as a story · 2 points
HN discussionQuite apart from whether the concept can succeed after having failed a number of well-funded and well-publicised times— I open https://shtein.me/api/joke in a normal-enough browser (Firefox Nightly with Enhanced Tracking Protection and uBlock Origin). After loading its 2.3MB response (no useful HTML, just a huge inlined JS blob, and served without transfer compression), it asks me to select a wallet. There are two c…
Comment linking /api/joke
on “X402, a static blog monetization excercise”