Jason Hansen

Passionate, driven, creative thinker. Die Hard Cubs Fan, Edsel & Tesla Owner/Enthusiast, CTO for Utility/ISP, Small Business Owner, Dad/Husband

[Cable TV Pioneers @CableTVPioneers]

The cable/broadband industry has connected communities while becoming more environmentally responsible. The #CableTVPioneers celebrate innovators and companies working to build networks that are not only powerful and reliable, but also more sustainable for the future. #EarthDay

[Sam Bernero @sambernero]

Unbelievable Javy!! El Mago👏👏

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Today, every player will be wearing number 42 to honour Jackie Robinson

Ken Griffey Jr. started the tradition of wearing #42 on April 15th to honour Jackie Robinson.

[Jason Hansen @JasonWHansen]

@CableTVPioneers @MatthewMPolka Hopefully one day! 27 years in the industry and have seen a lot change.

[MLB @MLB]

Wrigleyville, this one’s calling your name 👀

We are giving away a signed Pete Crow-Armstrong bat just for you! Repost and reply for a chance to win!

[Kent Murphy @KentMurphy]

When Yu Darvish took out the batter, catcher, AND the umpire on the same pitch 😭😭

[UMW Athletics @UMWathletics]

𝘼 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙚’𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 🤩

@UMW_Basketball was honored in front of the Division I national championship crowd during the first half of Monday’s game!

#GetDirtyGoWash 🦅 x #d3hoops 🏀

[NCAA Division III @NCAADIII]

AT THE BUZZER.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROGRAM HISTORY, THE @UMWathletics EAGLES ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🏀🏆

#WhyD3 | #D3mhoops

[UMW Athletics @UMWathletics]

𝙂𝙤 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 👊

📸 » @d3photography

#GetDirtyGoWash 🦅

[Jason Hansen @JasonWHansen]

Anyone looking for a referral for the Founders Card.

https://t.co/jSvEV6wTYw

[Jason Hansen @JasonWHansen]

@Creed_Thoughts2 https://t.co/5eLx57QcVC

[Dwight’s World @Creed_Thoughts2]

You can no longer copy the link of a video anymore on X 😢

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Anthropic leaked 512,000 lines of Claude Code source code yesterday.

What happened in the next 12 hours is absolutely wild.

4 AM. Anthropic pushes an update to npm. Inside the package: their entire codebase. A 60 MB debugging file accidentally bundled in.

23 minutes later, researcher Chaofan Shou spots it. Downloads the zip.

Posts it on X. Within 6 hours: 3 million views.

By the time Anthropic’s team woke up, the code was forked 41,000+ times across GitHub. Anthropic started firing DMCA takedowns. Too late.

A Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up to his phone exploding. He’s Claude Code’s biggest power user.

WSJ reported he burned through 25 billion tokens last year.

He read the leaked code.

Rewrote the entire thing in Python in 8 hours. His repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any GitHub project in history.

Then he rewrote it again in Rust. That version now has 49,000 stars.

Someone mirrored it to a decentralized platform with one message: “will never be taken down.” The code is permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back.

Here’s the part I can’t stop thinking about: Anthropic built something called “Undercover Mode.” Its only job: prevent Claude from accidentally leaking internal secrets.

They shipped an entire anti-leak system in their own product. Then leaked their own source code in a .map file. Irony is beautiful

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

150 years of Cubs memories.

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

These grandkids planned to surprise their grandma at the airport dressed as T. Rex, but she found out and came up with her own surprise

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

September 2009. Jensen Huang walks onto a small stage at the Fairmont hotel in San Jose. About 1,500 people are in the room. He runs a company that makes chips for video games.

He spends the next 8 minutes doing math on a whiteboard, explaining why the future of computing won't come from making CPUs faster. He calls it "CEO math" and apologizes in advance to every computer science professor in the audience. Then he lays out an argument that almost nobody took seriously at the time: the way to make computers dramatically faster is to pair a regular CPU with hundreds of tiny parallel processors, the kind that already exist inside graphics cards. One CPU for the sequential stuff. Hundreds of GPU cores for everything else. He calls it "heterogeneous computing."

He shows the math. A workload that can be split into many pieces at once gets up to 200x faster on this combined system. A workload that has to run one step at a time loses nothing. "The most important thing in creating a new architecture," he says, "is to make sure it does no harm."

This was the first GPU Technology Conference. NVIDIA had launched a software platform called CUDA three years earlier, in 2006, to let developers write programs that run on graphics cards instead of just regular processors. Almost nobody cared. GPUs were for rendering Call of Duty, not for scientific computing. The academic world was polite but skeptical. The enterprise world ignored it entirely.

By this point, Huang had been making this argument for years. NVIDIA was a $7 billion company. It competed with AMD and Intel for market share in the graphics market. That was the whole business. Jensen kept saying the GPU wasn't just a gaming chip; it was a computing platform. He kept saying parallel processing would reshape every industry from medicine to finance to physics simulations. People kept nodding, then doing nothing.

Then deep learning happened. Around 2012, AI researchers discovered that training a neural network, which means teaching a computer to recognize patterns by running the same calculation millions of times across huge datasets, was exactly the kind of workload Jensen had been describing. GPUs can train AI models 10 to 50 times faster than CPUs. The architecture he outlined in this 2009 talk, with one CPU handling step-by-step tasks while hundreds of GPU cores crunch through massive amounts of parallel data, is now the literal blueprint for every AI data center on earth.

ChatGPT runs on NVIDIA GPUs. Claude runs on NVIDIA GPUs. Gemini, Llama, Midjourney, nearly every major AI model you've heard of was trained on NVIDIA hardware using CUDA, the software platform Jensen built for a market that didn't exist yet.

NVIDIA was worth about $7 billion when Jensen gave this talk. It is worth over $4.4 trillion today. That's a 600x increase. Jensen Huang, who founded the company at a Denny's in 1993 with two friends, now has a net worth of over $160 billion. He made Forbes' list of the 10 richest people for the first time this year.

GTC 2026 is currently ongoing. 17,000 people are packing a hockey arena to watch the same guy explain what comes next. In 2009, 1,500 people showed up at a hotel ballroom, most of them for gaming graphics.

[Jason Hansen @JasonWHansen]

A community of innovators and problem solvers!

[Cable TV Pioneers @CableTVPioneers]

✨Nominations for the 2026 Class of #CableTVPioneers are OPEN! ✨

📍Inducted at the 60th Annual Banquet
🗓 Sept. 28, 2026
📌Atlanta, GA

🔗 Learn more and nominate: https://t.co/rsoMHNgWDH…
☑️ Nominations open until April 15, 2026

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[Jason Hansen @JasonWHansen]

@DavidFWeiss @rachel_schilke Truthbomb!

[Jason Hansen @JasonWHansen]

@obvious_shirts Idiots!! 2016 WS would be #1

[Cable TV Pioneers @CableTVPioneers]

Happy #NationalInventorsDay! The #CableTVPioneers celebrate the innovators, engineers, and visionaries who imagined something better, and built the cable industry from the ground up. Here’s to the pioneers who dared to invent and inspire.
#InventorsDay #Broadband #WeBuiltThis