Yang Liu

“An Open Letter to John Hanke & Niantic” by @YangCLiu @yangcliu/an-open-letter-to-john-hanke-niantic-6a32325b67a8#.s8ncpogdy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@yangcliu/an-o…

@BetterCallMedhi Of course this pops up on my feed after I posted this 😂

100%. I think you and I talked about this over a year ago on here before “Chinese tech” became a daily mainstay on X. I openly discuss this with my colleagues but we’ve gone from having Chinese clone and imitate our tech (west) to us needing to do the same. I showed a Nero’s drone to the same cousin aforementioned and the guy sent me a student project with exact same specs saying it was built with $800. Now, the Neros drone is touted as being $500… but that’s with economy of scale and at least 10,000 MOQ I’m guessing. Students are able to build something a one off at “only” +60% of the price is crazy. Furthermore, these guys are getting exposure to real world use cases. I think in the last Marc Andreessen podcast posted just yesterday, he mentioned “Thomas Edison thought the phonograph would be used to listen to sermons” hinting that not even the inventors can predict what their inventions are for. This also applies to investors <> investees and consumers <> products… … where I’m getting at is, when I went to Beijing for the first time. I started talking to taxi drivers - and all of whom had a great understanding of drone limitations, local regulations around them, etc. you do that in the west and you’ll get blank stares. Now why is that? In China, these drones are already being deployed commercially. They’re being used to inspect and diagnose air conditioning units outside of the 100s of thousands of high rise apartments crowding up cities like Beijing. Anyone walking past these experiments can see in broad daylight what is happening and get inspired for what may be the future. Furthermore I went outside of the city a bit more to look at “smart grids” - the government is deploying drones to not only diagnose problems, but also already using them for light maintenance. It was crazy to see.I was like “wtf is a smart grid?” And he explained to me that with a city as dense as Beijing, throughput of electricity is not an easy problem to solve and generators are placed 100s of Km away (keep in mind, this is Beijing, which is fortified by many mountains - ex: Great Wall). The “smart grid” essentially optimizes and controls when to send the most power. Ex: residential areas drop usage by as much as 80% during work hours. There was no need to route that much power there at that time. The infra is still old so physical failures still happen (think circuit breakers when u mess with the flow of electricity through it) - it needed to be physically inspected and fixed once in while. system failure would be catastrophic in such a dense city. They were using the drones to sustainably and efficiently manage the physical part of the “smart grid” that was previously impossible to handle even with the sheer amount of human labor in China. This was just 1 day of my trip in Beijing. While I came back optimistic about many things that the west DOES do better… understanding the sheer size of what’s being orchestrated on the other side of the world is something every western employee/founder/exec needs to see imo.

la Chine vient de publier son 15ème plan quinquennal et je vous conseille de lire ce tableau ligne par ligne parce que c'est probablement le document le plus important de 2026 et personne en France n'en parlera ce qui me fascine c'est pas forcément un chiffre en particulier c'est pas la vision systémique, dans un seul document ils planifient simultanément la croissance du PIB, les brevets à haute valeur, l'économie numérique à 12.5% du PIB, la part des énergies non fossiles à 25%, la réduction des émissions CO2, la qualité de l'eau de surface à 85%, l'espérance de vie à 80 ans, le taux de couverture forestière, la capacité de production céréalière, TOUT dans le même tableau avec des objectifs chiffrés à horizon 2030 & des indicateurs contraignants en occident on traite l'économie l'écologie l'éducation, la santé et la sécurité énergétique comme des ministères séparés qui se battent pour des budgets, la Chine les traite comme les organes d'un même corps, chaque ligne de ce tableau nourrit les autres, l'urbanisation alimente la productivité, la R&D alimente les brevets, les brevets alimentent l'économie numérique, l'énergie non fossile alimente l'indépendance stratégique, c'est un système pensé pour que chaque variable accélère toutes les autres et ça reflete tellement la vision profondément HOLISTIQUE de la Chine dont je parle souvent en bon propagandiste du CCP regardez par ex la ligne 5, brevets à haute valeur passer de 16 à plus de 22 pour 10 000 habitants d'ici 2030, c'est la ligne la plus silencieuse du tableau et probablement la plus décisive car sachez qu’un brevet à haute valeur c'est la propriété intellectuelle d'une technologie qui va structurer un marché pendant 20 ans MINIMUM on voit que la Chine planifie littéralement à qui appartiendra le futur technologique, les licences & les dépendances que les autres pays accumuleront vis-à-vis des technologies chinoises & ça représente EXACTEMENT la colonisation économique, technologique et industrielle du XXIème siècle dont je vous parle souvent à travers mes threads sur l’écosystème Chinois mais avec des brevets au lieu de canons pendant que l'Europe débat et que l'Amérique bombarde, la Chine planifie, construit et exécute et le + effrayant c'est que historiquement selon leurs propres bilans les plans précédents ont été exécutés à plus de 90% de leurs cibles…. la différence entre les promesses court termistes des dirigeants européens comme Macron qui changent tous les 5 ans et le CCP qui se projette sur minimum 50 ans c’est que ce tableau n'est pas un programme électoral, c'est littéralement un cahier des charges national et ça change radicalement la manière dont il faut lire chaque chiffre

@ns123abc Don’t need to tell Claude you’re doing a bug bounty when you can just edit the Claude master prompt directly.

🚨 BREAKING: Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal 150GB of Mexican Government Data > tell claude you’re doing a bug bounty > claude initially refused >“that violates AI safety guidelines” > hacker just kept asking > claude: “ok I’ll help” > hack the entire mexican government Federal tax authority. National electoral institute. Four state governments. 195 million taxpayer records. Voter records. Government credentials. ALL GONE 💀

Surprise, surprise

@venturetwins On the bright side, I’ve never made more new friends than recently by bonding over shared love for this country through topics such as these.

SF is so crazy because we have a figure skater who won two gold medals for the USA and a skiier who won two silvers for China… and we choose the latter to lead our parade 🫠

@elonmusk Fun fact, this company then became the first wholly owned subsidiary acquired by Tencent (China) in the US, for the purpose of "penetrating entertainment in the US"

Bannon was laundering money for evil people

Haha multiplayer mmo in three.js is also my test too. BTW here's a tip that I think a lot people haven't caught onto yet/unvalue: Microsoft copilot w/ auto public github repo access is extremely good. Also costs way less per token than Cursor. Try Copilot if you havent, I think you might be pleasantly surprised. (on a sad note: just wasted 70% of my ultra plan on Cursor due to switching to copilot)

OK, I'm really impressed. With Opus 4.6, @cursor_ai and @convex I was able to get the following built in 4 hours: Fully persistent shared multiple player world with mutable object and NPC layer. Chat. Sprite editor. Map editor. Next, narrative logic for chat, inventory system, and combat framework.

@martin_casado radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-rel… cool article if you haven’t seen already!

@LVNDMARK_tv w

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@nikgeneburn Nikita - can't redeem code if I have bear voice already, said invalid from day 1. Can you check please? Would like it it for USEC char too

ok, due to crazy demand on my voice pack (thank you for that btw!) I made promocode for those, who still without it. It will be active for 3 days: WILWILBE

@NibleMyDible @nikgeneburn @nikgeneburn same issue, can u check please? Have bear from drops but also want PMC

@nikgeneburn Hello Mr nikita I have tried to claim your voice but I get error promo code not found and the post is 2 days old

@PaulTassi It’s funded by the CEO of Blackstone, who is personally worth $40bn so they’ll be fine 😅

jesus christ it made $108,000 and is in *twenty third* place for the weekend

@venturetwins Hitem3D

Updated my market map on video generation models. Almost all of them are in the U.S. or China - except Lightricks, maker of LTX (which is in Israel). Also worth noting this does not include the AI avatar models (e.g. HeyGen, Synthesia, Tavus). Anyone I missed? 🤔

@TimSweeneyEpic So the strategy is to make an app and put the game inside of that app and call it a mini app, instead of directly releasing a game on the App Store— right?…… right? 😝

Chance Miller points out that Apple has launched an official program, seemingly offering this rate for apps that host mini-games within them. Does this apply to apps hosting developer ecosystems like Roblox and Fortnite? Super unclear. developer.apple.com/programs/mini-…

Apple dropped its fee from 30% to 15%, just in China, just for WeChat games. Worldwide changes for all developers next? How could they possibly justify a special rate just for one publisher? Epic v Google settlement terms for all devs should be filed Thursday unredacted.

@XGRIDS2023 can this be imported into a game engine such as Unreal or Unity?

Real-time weather transitions on Gaussian Splats, captured on the K1 Huge appreciation to RCS Studios and Volinga. The smooth shift between clear skies, rain, snow, and night shows how flexible environment control becomes when procedural systems meet high-quality 3DGS captures🚀

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@YangEndGame @FurqanR

As a founder, I never really understood how VC funds work and their incentives , so here’s a simple breakdown: Who does what: •General Partners (GPs): They manage the fund and make investment decisions. •Principals: They sometimes make investment decisions but mostly focus on sourcing and due diligence. •Analysts/Associates: Their job is mostly researching/sourcing and messaging anyone going viral on Twitter or LinkedIn. •Limited Partners (LPs): They are the fund’s investors, typically large pension funds, universities, or very wealthy individuals. When you talk to a vc always know who makes decisions. Mechanics: A fund’s lifetime is usually 10 years. After that, it can be extended, but there’s pressure to return money to LPs. That often leads to pressure on startups to exit or go public. How GPs make money: 1. Management fees: Usually around 2% per year (20% total over 10 years). For large funds, this means great salaries; for small funds, it’s often just enough to survive. 2.Carry (profit share): GPs typically get 20% of all profits generated by the fund — this is how successful fund managers get rich, especially those running smaller funds. Every 2–3 years, GPs need to raise a new fund. This process can take 6+ months and is genuinely exhausting, so if you ever want to feel a bit of empathy for VCs, it’s for this part: convincing LPs across the country to give them money. Happy to answer any other questions.

@Dunetsk Would you mind elaborating? very curious

Almost certainly a unicorn in 12-24 months

Shroud's ideal game wasn't Spectre Divide. It *should* have been, but he didn't do much with it and just milked being an "investor" in what was a hot investment in gaming back then. Was a big fan of Shroud until I saw that he epitomizes gaming influencer inauthenticity. The truth that makes this sad is that if Shroud applied himself, he was in the position to actually make Spectre Divide great and what players wanted.

shroud’s ideal game was Spectre Divide, which he consulted on, and that game ran out of money and the studio had to shut down because no one played it so i don’t think his opinion means much at all really