Sign up for 3DN — DutchBud wallet and 1000 Ƀ welcome
General 3DN signup is coming: Authentik identity, automatic DutchBud account, 1000 DBB on completion — plus hidden objectives for extra virtual credits. Announcement and roadmap.
The Future doesn’t need your Roadmap
By 11 August 2031 the main path for Chinese frontier AI does not depend on smuggled NVIDIA boards and Western HBM. The race is the memory wall, packaging, megawatts, and the compiler — not the next gadget roadmap.
Open weights are not open minds: the neural net cosplay
Open-weight models are sold as more open than API models. A neural net is billions of opaque floats either way. Open mostly means run it yourself — usually on NVIDIA, sometimes the Ascend bet.
Vibe coding meets production: databases are not dead because your demo fits in localStorage
A hot take said databases are dead and vibe-coded apps should live in browser storage. That works for one user — not for a hundred thousand. Engineering with a coding agent is the spearpoint; cosplay scale is not.
The 3DN network comes to life — Berlin PolitiCap edge is born
Melodrama with a hostname: 3DN’s European infrastructure just drew breath. berlin.germany.politicap.eu is live on a node in Germany. Managed hosting, digital sovereignty, and trading soon to follow.
Regional ECN edge for PolitiCap Bangkok — wire, proxy, policy
How 3DN runs a PolitiCap regional ECN at bangkok.thailand.politicap.eu: load-balancer web proxy, Go node binary, Redis cache, and server-imposed content policy with accounts on the apex.
DeepSeek returns on Huawei iron — we told you the bus was the story
DeepSeek’s new model generation, tuned for Huawei Ascend, is the software half of the NVLink-vs-open-bus fork. How likely is Chinese hardware independence? High for a sovereign inference lane; contested at the deepest manufacturing layers.
Why long sessions make AI coding cheap: prompt cache hit-rate
If you run coding agents day in and day out, you eventually notice something odd. Some weeks the bill looks almost boring. Then a few sharp spikes appear — usually on days when someone reopened an old chat on another … Continued
NVLink for the rich cats, PCIe for the rest — and Huawei opens the bus
Pulling NVLink from RTX 40-class GeForce was not a gamer gift. It reserved multi-GPU fabric for enterprise inference while home labs got PCIe 5.0 ×16. Huawei’s open UnifiedBus 2.0 specs point the other way: link many NPUs as one machine.
The Ghost in the Lattice
I stopped measuring GPUs in FLOPS and started seeing trillions of transistors as analog neurons. Then I trained a ghost that learns from every conversation at once — and does not forget.
