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The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository

54 mentions on Hacker News by 48 people: 15 stories, 39 comments · first 2016-03-03 · latest 2026-09-08

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  1. …the bot that governed the Ethereum Improvement Proposals repo for a year with direct commit rights: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3351 - deno lsp go-to-definition from 32s to 131ms, six defects found by counting directory opens…
    comment by alita-moore · 2026-09-08 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
  2. …would be the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repo (where people submit proposals to change the spec): https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs Or the go-ethereum execution client (the most popular execution client):…
    comment by chrisco255 · 2024-03-20 · in Ethereum Foundation removes their canary
  3. …was ERC-4337, which has been in the works for some time and was recently publicly announced. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-4337.m... Before the contrarians come in for the quick gotcha and say that it bring in…
  4. Read through EIPs: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs Not just accepted and popular ones, but also on proposals and rejected ones. It’ll give you a taste of what people are thinking about and what’s upcoming.
  5. …ERC have improved on it. [0]: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/tokens/erc... [1]: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20
    comment by simonebrunozzi · 2022-01-08 · in In Response to My first impressions of Web3
  6. GitHub! It's all open source. EIPs are Ethereum Improvement Proposals. You can view them all here: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues Ethereum Foundation blog is a good read on technical detail with no price discussion:…
    comment by eterpstra · 2021-11-19 · in Notes on Web3
  7. …amount of other people's money and the community decided not to roll that particular mistake back: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md
    comment by brian_cloutier · 2021-10-18 · in I accidentally compromised my hot wallet
  8. …it out, but it is running on the beacon chain and the consensus upgrade spec has now been merged: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3675
  9. …definitely some limitations and it's not fully standardized yet. There's a tentative standard here https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1538 and OpenZeppelin also has their own implementation. Although neither of these things will…
  10. …not core developers or not able to attend. 2. Another important medium has been GitHub issues (e.g. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/2315 ). Proposals are submitted as a PR and, earlier in the evolution of the governance process,…
  11. Fwiw there is a proposal to add a return stack to the EVM: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-2315.m... Your evm-assembler looks pretty interesting. It's crossed my mind before to write an evm Forth, just for fun, and…
    comment by DennisP · 2020-12-01 · in Ethereum 2.0 launches
  12. …the "bad" key when you can just switch the reference? Eth draft for enabling cold storage relay https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1077.m... Decentralized ID https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ ^ both generally use the same…
    comment by rodocite · 2020-01-02 · in Event Sourcing (2017)
  13. That’s proved a little more perilous with Ethereum compared to Bitcoin, heh https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md
  14. Here's the EIP (Ethereum improvement proposal) causing problems. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1283.m...
  15. …also decreases the likelihood of a miner driven chain split as Ethereum approaches proof-of-stake. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1234.m...
    comment by jamespitts · 2018-12-22 · in Ethereum Constantinople Explained
  16. Looks like this a known issue : https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/763 although one of the proposed solutions involves having the contract maintain a list of owners. The list being maintained by ... the owner...<doh>:…
  17. …data structures are useful, but you are correct that the impact will be quite limited. [1]: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/225 [2]: https://wiki.parity.io/Aura.html
  18. Yes, that is true: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/999
    comment by ancorevard · 2018-04-18 · in Upgradeable smart contracts in Ethereum
  19. Related PR https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/999
  20. There's currently an EIP discussion regarding subscription payments: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/948
  21. …Dapps as possible and implement the latest enhancements to Web 3 API as quickly as possible. (e.g. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/712 - eth_signTypedData) I gotta say Status is a very cool project though (and really well-funded too…
  22. …attempts to make NFTs (non-fungible tokens) as interoperable as ERC-20-compliant fungible tokens. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/721
  23. …good chance that the unspendable ether problem gets solved in the next one or two protocol upgrades https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156
  24. …allow you to do this. I don't see the use-case though. Also, there are checksums for addresses: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-55.md I don't know anyone who would manually type an address though.
  25. …in this case where there the "rightful owner" is clear (like the other cases mentioned in https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156 ).
    comment by pietjepuk88 · 2017-11-08 · in Parity Wallet security alert
  26. …by others it's possible at some point (not any time soon) that this frozen ETH can be recovered ( https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156 ) by adding rules to recover it in the next Ethereum hard fork. Not creating a specific hard fork…
    comment by ve55 · 2017-11-07 · in Parity Wallet security alert
  27. …as something that could happen, and there is work looking into how to solve it going back a ways: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156 It looks like if this EIP is implemented in the future, the address that created the original…
    comment by Cshelton · 2017-11-07 · in Parity Wallet security alert
  28. …Where is the mailing list discussion? Where did community members have a chance to raise concerns? https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs https://github.com/ethereum/pm/tree/master/All%20Core%20Devs... These changes should be no surprise to…
    comment by Cakez0r · 2017-10-12 · in Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement
  29. I think the reference is EIP 101: Crypto Abstraction which is planned for the Serenity release. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28
  30. …to be a fixed size. See these issues for background https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/issues/164 https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/211 Also, the longer-term proposal is to adopt WebAssembly for EVM 2.0:…
    comment by cdetrio · 2017-07-24 · in Learn Ethereum smart contract programming
  31. …hardfork that adds an EVM opcode for effectively "const" call that is enforced by the runtime: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/214/files There are also proposals out for a number of the issues you have mentioned. I believe that…
    comment by MicahZoltu · 2017-07-21 · in 153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
  32. …transaction signatures in the segwit2x hard fork? Is there already some chain identity in it? [1] https://github.com/ethereum/eips/issues/155
  33. …(IIRC) the plan is to allow miners to accept whatever tokens they prefer for the gas payment. See https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28 and https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/572v7t/eth_as_an_...
  34. …[7] http://raiden.network [8] https://github.com/vbuterin/scalability_paper/blob/master/sc... [9] https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53 [10] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/03/05/serenity-poc2/ ) from March [11]…
  35. …https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-... and the improvement proposal is: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28 For #1, there are checksums now, but the more interesting question and challenge is how would a…
  36. …contribute, some details are: EIP 105 (Serenity): Binary sharding plus contract calling semantics https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53 Very technical open discussion here: https://gitter.im/ethereum/research I believe they also have…
  37. …the Frontier launch and I have some Ether holdings. 1. Checksums are available via the mechanism in https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/55 2. I don't have any experience mining. Maybe someone else can answer this. 3. If I recall…
    comment by pipermerriam · 2016-05-23 · in A Current List of Use Cases for Ethereum
  38. …issue.[1] Your criticism is the reason why (a subset of) WebAssembly is used, not LLVM IR. 1. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/48#issuecomment-1690...
  39. …any language with a llvm compiler (which is most of them) could be used to write contract code. 1. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/48