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Repeating once a year shouldn’t be too much, right? On June 24, 2021, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily was shut down, and my column #decentralizehk came to an end along with it. Unwilling to simply stop writing, I launched DHK Newsletter #0 the very next day, June 25. Since then, I’ve written one piece every week without a single break. In other words, this issue, #261, marks DHK Newsletter’s fifth anniversary. Following past tradition, I’ll close with an annual review. Previous reviews: Year 1 · Year...

In November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT and raised the curtain on generative AI. Its user numbers have led the field by a wide margin ever since, and ChatGPT became a byword for AI itself. Three and a half years on, ChatGPT still commands the largest market share, but its revenue has been caught up by the far less famous Claude — and OpenAI may even be beaten to an IPO by Claude’s developer, Anthropic. How Claude Was Forged Anthropic has always occupied the moral high ground, emphasising th...

I'm an imperfectionist: perfection is a direction, not a destination. Ship first, then improve it with your users—from my column to 3ook.com's Cantonese AI narration to staying to mend an imperfect society. The crack lets the light in.

WordPress was created by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little and launched on 27 May 2003 — making today its 23rd anniversary, to the day. Apart from old salts like me who still use it daily, plenty of people wrote WordPress off as outdated long ago. Last week, WordPress 7.0 — codenamed Armstrong, a tribute to jazz legend Louis Armstrong — shipped with a suite of generative-AI features. Is this a has-been uncle dressing up in trendy clothes, all awkward imitation? Or a veteran NBA player who’s just...

Tomorrow is the 16th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day. I reread the three pieces I’ve written on the topic over the years — nothing to add, nothing to correct. Rather than rehashing the same tune, I’ll just relink the old pieces for anyone interested:We Are All the Protagonists of Bitcoin Pizza DayThinking Fast and Slow on Bitcoin Pizza DayBitcoin Pizza Day, 15 Years On: The World Has Learned Not to Buy Pizza with BitcoinBesides, with Bitcoin’s price in the doldrums right now, writing about B...

Last November, a fire tore through Wang Fuk Court — a residential estate of eight high-rise towers in Hong Kong — killing 168 people and displacing all 1,984 households. Hearings over the past few days have revealed only fragments of what went wrong. Residents had complained, repeatedly and to multiple government departments, about the renovation works long before the fire. None of it was enough to prevent the disaster. Whether anyone should be held responsible is for the independent commissi...

“Dear magical algorithm, where can I find the best bubble tea?” Back when Facebook was still the place to be, posts like this were everywhere — people speaking, half in jest, to the algorithm itself. At first everyone understood it was just a figure of speech. The post was really aimed at friends who might see it and chime in with recommendations. Social networks, after all, were where people talked to people. But a decade and change later, users seem to have forgotten the rhetorical sleight ...

Some truths are simple, yet hard to act on. Everyone knows that buying assets at the bottom is how you make money, but humans always only pay attention to opportunity at the top, itching to buy in — while at the bottom, we focus on risk and find every reason not to touch it. Bitcoin is the perfect example. At the end of 2024 it broke through $100,000 for the first time, and everyone was either scrambling to buy or thinking it had risen too high and vowing to buy on the pullback. As I write th...

This year’s Easter coincided with the Qingming Festival, creating a five-day “super long weekend.” The mainstream news reported the number of people traveling abroad with a celebratory tone every day. Final statistics showed that during the five-day long holiday from April 3 to 7, a total of 2.36 million people departed Hong Kong. Among them, 77%—more than 1.81 million people—headed north, over-fulfilling the “integration KPI”. No wonder officials were so self-satisfied; meanwhile, Hong Kong’...

Last month, Meta announced that it would terminate the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature for Instagram DMs on May 8. I don’t personally use Instagram DMs, but given its massive user base, I expected at least some outcry. Instead, beyond the usual voices from “privacy hardliners” like Proton and Mozilla, there hasn’t even been a ripple on social media. I couldn’t find a single complaint, let alone any talk of a boycott. I’m not just talking about a lack of discussion within my own echo cham...