It was such a good way to reconnect with an old Seattle-era friend in New York: watching Crazy Thunder Road with a few "strangers," in a setting where I probably would never have watched this film otherwise. It also gave me an excuse to think about the movie itself and to let some random thoughts spill out along the way.
能用这样一种特别的方式和曾经的虾头旧友在纽约重逢——与几个“陌生人”看一部“如果没有这个机缘可能永远不会看”的电影《狂雷街区》，感觉很不错。顺带也给了我一个机会，借着回顾这部电影本身，随便扯扯。
书接上回。
当晚摇到本地领路人，一下子心情高涨，睡意全无，开始刷起了抖音小红书来抱佛脚——一晚上的学习让我大致领悟到了“排水渠”，“大小狼王”等“著名打卡点”。可惜只看视频既不过瘾，也一头雾水。明明昨天跟着地图指引该去的都去了，这些奇奇怪怪的名字到底是都在哪？好在入夜开始下雪，窗外的静谧慢慢透进来，我满怀兴奋，沉沉睡去。
前言：这篇文章的大部分内容其实写于一个月前，只是身处这轮 AI 大跃进里，时间和空间都在不断被压缩，每天都有新的内容出现，每天都有新的事件发生，每天都有所谓的“AI moment”。现在回看这篇文章，许多当时（仅仅过去一个多月）还让我觉得惊叹或诧异的东西，已经迅速变得稀松平常。但正如老钱在“面基”这栏播客节目中所说的一样，“这个过程中的一切感受启发和情绪都值得被记录”。 Preface: Most of this post was actually written about a month ago. But inside this current AI acceleration, time and space keep compressing: every day brings new content, new events, and another so-called “AI moment.” Looking back now, many things that felt surprising or astonishing only a little over a month ago already seem ordinary. As Lao Qian said on the podcast segment “The Fund Meet”, all the feelings, insights, and emotions produced along the way are worth recording.
I’ve been hacking on a small site at news.cheng.st — a daily Hacker News digest I spun up on my new Mac mini with my claw 🦀. I grabbed the machine from B&H Photo at a discount before the OpenClaw hype kicked in. The same model sold out a few days later, and the discount was gone. I quickly spun up my claw daemon. It started as “summarize today’s hot threads,” but I’m not satisfied with that: I asked it to add AI reflections that try to surface what the bot cares about and which themes keep recurring in its attention.
我最近折腾了一个小网站：news.cheng.st。作为一个每日的 Hacker News 摘要站。这得益于我前些时候赶在 claw hype 起来之前，在 B&H Photo 用折扣价入手的 Mac mini。几天后我又去看了一眼：同款已经卖光，折扣也消失了。我搭建的这个网站刚开始只是“总结今天的热门帖子”，但我显然不满足于此：我在摘要开头加了一个 AI 视角的总结与反思，想试着捕捉 AI 似乎会在意什么、哪些主题会引起它的注意。
因各路好友的口口相传而种草多时的新疆滑雪之旅，在2025年末终得成行。自从北美学成单板技能多年以来，终于得以第一次回国耍帅，汇报演出，着实激动。上海飞阿勒泰的航班与西雅图飞纽约航班一样，东西跨越一整个国家，由一角直达另一隅。出发当天，未曾想还得到航司的特别关怀，获全机组祝福外加蛋糕一份，轻松收买了我的心。
飞行快落地时窗外的景色，下机一瞬间的干冷的空气，恍惚间把我拉向盐湖城，或是丹佛。直到看到阿勒泰机场这富有中式交通枢纽特色的红色大字，才把我拉回现实。从小在江浙长大的我，虽然国内也走走跑跑去过不少地方，但都局限于沿海或中南，都未曾去过东北，这还是我第一次在中国见到此番雪景。
