Zhixiong Pan
I turn curiosity into experiments, and experiments into tools.
I follow AI, wearables, biohacking, open source, decentralized systems, and games. I do not observe these shifts from the outside; I plug new tools and systems into my body and life, then test how they change the everyday over long time horizons. This site records experiments, tools, and research trails, along with the cultural, personal, and ordinary details that curiosity pulls into view.
Writing
- The Heart Study I Joined 11 Years Ago Became OpenMHC
My Heart Counts, a study I joined in 2015, has grown into an open wearable-research infrastructure containing roughly 60 million hours of data.
- A Biohacker's Guide to the Visual Interface: Treating Glasses as the Optical Layer of the Human I/O Stack
A systems-engineering guide to glasses: refractive correction, lens choice, fitting, maintenance, and ROI for biohackers and technical people.
- Prawn Crackers
A familiar childhood snack became a small reminder that food, memory, and culture are usually more migratory than local myths suggest.
- My Annual AI Bill, 2025 Edition
If AI is becoming everyday infrastructure like water and electricity, my real 2025 cost was about 3050 USD and more than 2 billion tokens.
- Why Everyone Should Pay Attention to Continuous Glucose
A biohacker's first CGM experiment: using continuous glucose monitoring to understand food, metabolism, and body feedback.
- Lighthouses Point the Way, Torches Fight for Sovereignty: The Hidden War Over AI Distribution
The split in AI is not only a conflict between tech giants and open source, but a redistribution of frontier capability, public baselines, and control over intelligence.
- AI Is Reshaping Crypto Development: At Least 14% of Top Projects Now Code with AI
A survey of 1,000 highly starred crypto repositories found explicit evidence of AI-assisted coding in at least 137 projects.
- Newshacker.me: Turning Hacker News into an Anti-Echo-Chamber Entry Point
The launch note for Newshacker.me, a Chinese Hacker News digest built around higher-quality sources and exposure to different points of view.
- Tianyuan Chemical Factory
A small trail of curiosity connecting Jimmy O. Yang's family history, Tianchu MSG, Tianyuan Chemical, and a familiar place from my school days in Shanghai.
- An Early Newshacker.me Experiment: Pushing Hacker News Digests to Telegram
An early experiment using the o3-mini API to summarize Hacker News discussions and push the results through a Telegram Channel.
- How I Received a Bitcoin Faucet Airdrop in 2011
A personal data archaeology exercise using old Google Reader and Dropbox archives to reconstruct how I created my first Bitcoin wallet in 2011.