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PL R&D
Company blog · research.protocol.ai/blogprogrammingscience
PL R&D is the company blog at research.protocol.ai, writing about programming and science. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Largest deployed ZK-SNARK network to date (~134M constraints)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link PL R&D's research pages, including the Resilient Networks Lab job listing and the SNARKs project page. The comments use them as a hiring pointer and as support for a claim about Filecoin's network.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Largest deployed ZK-SNARK network to date (~134M constraints)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-13
What Hacker News says?
Protocol Labs is hiring a REMOTE Research Engineer for our new Resilient Networks Lab ( https://research.protocol.ai/research/groups/resnetlab/ ). Job description can be found here: https://jobs.lever.co/protocol/f39f7fe0-1805-40d2-9453-90fd2... ResNetLab supports the research efforts of two of Protocol Labs' flagship projects: IPFS and libp2p. Its mission is to build resilient distributed systems, by creating and o…
Comment linking /research/groups/resnetlab/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React as a story · 75 points
HN discussionYou should check out drand ( https://drand.love ), which is based on threshold cryptography and the group running the network is composed of 16 independent organisations, none of which can manipulate or predict the next beacon. Beacons can be consumed from the public HTTP APIs ( https://drand.love/developer/http-api/ ). Lots of exciting features to land very soon that include Timelock Encryption, among several other…
Comment linking /tutorials/resnetlab-on-tour/drand/
on “Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake”Submitted Largest deployed ZK-SNARK network to date (~134M constraints) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYep! The SNARKiest network out there I believe! https://research.protocol.ai/sites/snarks/
Comment linking /sites/snarks/
on “Filecoin Virtual Machine – Polyglot, WASM-based execution environment”Submitted IPFS-Fan: A Function-Addressable Computation Network [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single Secret Leader Election as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React as a story · 1 points
HN discussion