Zhixiong Pan turns curiosity into experiments, and experiments into tools.https://zhixiongpan.com/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/prawn-crackers/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/prawn-crackers/A familiar childhood snack became a small reminder that food, memory, and culture are usually more migratory than local myths suggest.Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:43:00 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/annual-ai-bill-2025/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/annual-ai-bill-2025/If AI is becoming everyday infrastructure like water and electricity, my real 2025 cost was about 3050 USD and more than 2 billion tokens.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:03:00 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/everyday-biohacker-cgm-glucose/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/everyday-biohacker-cgm-glucose/A biohacker's first CGM experiment: using continuous glucose monitoring to understand food, metabolism, and body feedback.Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:48:55 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/lighthouse-torch-ai-distribution/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/lighthouse-torch-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.Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:07:00 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/ai-coding-in-crypto/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/ai-coding-in-crypto/A survey of 1,000 highly starred crypto repositories found explicit evidence of AI-assisted coding in at least 137 projects.Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:01:00 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/newshacker-me-anti-echo-chamber/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/newshacker-me-anti-echo-chamber/The launch note for Newshacker.me, a Chinese Hacker News digest built around higher-quality sources and exposure to different points of view.Sat, 25 Oct 2025 08:55:00 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/jimmy-o-yang-tianyuan-chemical/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/jimmy-o-yang-tianyuan-chemical/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.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:09:00 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/newshacker-telegram-hacker-news-digest/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/newshacker-telegram-hacker-news-digest/An early experiment using the o3-mini API to summarize Hacker News discussions and push the results through a Telegram Channel.Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:33:00 GMThttps://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/bitcoin-faucet-2011-data-archaeology/https://zhixiongpan.com/en/writing/bitcoin-faucet-2011-data-archaeology/A personal data archaeology exercise using old Google Reader and Dropbox archives to reconstruct how I created my first Bitcoin wallet in 2011.Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:00:00 GMT