InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·2d agoThe King Is Dead: Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Ousting and the Holy Grail of Founder ControlWhy Nvidia’s board could remove its founder CEO, and how startup founders can use dual-class shares, board seats, and voting control to…
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Nov 4SpaceX Wants to Be Your Phone Company. It Just Hired Qualcomm to Build the Radios.The company that put thousands of routers in orbit is now coming down to earth: steel towers, rooftop leases, zoning boards and all. Here’s…
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Nov 3Guido van Rossum: Why Python’s Creator Quit as Dictator for LifeHe wrote Python over a 1989 Christmas break. By 2018 it ran AI and the web, and a fight over the walrus operator (PEP 572) drove him to…
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Oct 26Starship’s Heat Shield: Can 18,000 Tiles Escape the Space Shuttle’s Fatal Flaw?A broken heat shield doomed Columbia. SpaceX’s Starship rebuilt it with a steel hull and pinned hexagonal tiles, but experts say rapid…A response icon1A response icon1
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Oct 21Is Diffusion LLM the speed demon as promised?We test Inception’s Mercury 3 against the fastest autoregressive models from Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI, and Cerebras to find out
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Oct 19Moxie Marlinspike: The Anarchist Sailor Who Built Signal and Encrypted Billions of ChatsMoxie Marlinspike, a dreadlocked squatter who sailed a $1,000 wreck to the Caribbean with bags of bricks for anchors, built Signal and the…
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Oct 8Is Mobile Eating the PC? The MacBook Neo, the Googlebook, and the Laptop That Became a PhoneFor forty years we told ourselves a comforting story. There were real computers, and then there were phones.
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Oct 5OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows PC. Its Creator Trusts No One.OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt was pushed out of NetBSD, lost a DARPA grant and fought half of open source. Now his paranoid code guards the…
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Sep 30I Built My Own “Muse Charm” on an ESP32 Stick: One Fast Brain, One Slow BrainTL;DR:A response icon1A response icon1
InThe Low End DisruptorbyZheng "Bruce" Li·Sep 24I Wanted the Phones to Stop Dropping. I Got WhatsApp Instead.The curious story of Erlang, told from inside the head of the man who built it.
