Zhixiong Pan
I turn curiosity into experiments, and experiments into tools.
I write and build around AI, wearables, longevity tech, open source, decentralized systems, games, and how new technologies enter personal life.
Independent Researcher · Data-driven Biohacker · Cyborg
AI-native Builder · Crypto-native Thinker
Writing
- 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.