Daniel J Hunter

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

suprise and delight!

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

Always add easter eggs 🪄

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

Dirty Jobs, SF, Sept 23. @nyquishq is building the operating system for the grid, starting at the substation. Find me if you scale field ops or underwrite hardware honestly.

Thank you @JayKapoorNYC for the invite!

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

👇

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

For the past several months I've been working on this hypothesis that agents need to be constrained by a harness of deterministic tools that force them to follow a strict process. Gherkin, Code, Unit Tests, Crap, Mutation Tests, etc.

But while I've been hammering away on that, the models have gotten astronomically better. I'm starting to think that I'm over constraining them. Perhaps vastly over constraining them.

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

don't let your dreams be memes

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

Astra is a step function improvement.

It rendered this oscilloscope in 3D from two reference photos in a single prompt 🤯

One more prompt for the interactivity and animation (which I already had in code). Definitely rough but still... OpenAI really cooked with this one.

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

Super excited to be a part of this with @nyquishq!

[Google for Startups @GoogleStartups]

AI is a generational opportunity to redesign the global energy system. ⚡

Meet 28 startups across North America and Europe joining the Google for Startups Accelerator. From modernizing the grid to cutting power bills, they’re building the foundation for clean, reliable power for everyone.

Start fast. Scale faster. 🌍 https://t.co/i4Sb0nqrHi

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

Excited to use this!

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Today we’re announcing SPC Fund IV: $575M to help founders find their life’s work.

A decade of guiding founders through -1 to 0 brings @SPC to $2B in AUM and, more importantly, a 1200 member community of the world’s most talented technologists. We strongly believe that:

→ The person comes before the idea. At -1, generational founders are often busy reading, prototyping, discarding, and earning the right to their own conviction.
→ Ambition is social. The people you surround yourself with in the early days play a big part in inflecting your ambition.
→ Patience compounds. It is better to work on something you have deep conviction in rather than simply sprint at the first idea.

The quiet months we protect at the beginning have produced three funds in the top 10% of their vintages, and companies like @baseten, @GammaApp, @render, @GoodfireAI, @LumaLabsAI, and @profound. We are proud to have worked with all these founders in their -1 phase and beyond.

While we defined -1 to 0, we're no longer bound by it. Fund IV allows us to partner with companies well beyond launch.

We're doing this now because we've never seen a wider gap between what's possible and what's being attempted. Intelligence is abundant. The cost of trying ideas keeps falling, and problems that seemed insurmountable a few years ago are quickly becoming solvable.

To our members, to the founders who trusted us before anyone else did, and to the LPs who had conviction in our own -1 journey: thank you. This milestone belongs to you as much as to us.

To the builders looking to find your life’s work: let’s get started.

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

Somewhere a New Mexico co-op lineman is filing an outage report where the cause code just says ‘bear.’

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

At least 12 dead in Almería, Spain (the region’s deadliest wildfire ever). Witnesses say it started with a downed power line in dry brush. Victims were caught fleeing by car and on foot. 3,200+ hectares burned amid a brutal heat wave.

https://t.co/sOwMdlIpUI

[South Park Commons @spc]

The time to be maximally ambitious is now.

The $1M Founder Fellowship is open for Fall 2026.

Applications are due August 2nd.

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Every founder I meet worries about missing this moment.

The best worry about wasting it. There’s a difference.

It’s a waste to ignore how much the world has changed. It’s a waste to think you can capture value with pure software the same as 5 years ago.

It’s a waste to build something small.

We have seen the shift slowly and then very quickly at @spc.

Here’s who we want in the Founder Fellowship now: hardware tinkerers, mad scientists, obsessives, biohackers, people who build nuclear reactors in their basements.

People who want to get their hands dirty and touch grass and atoms.

If you are only building software, then please (for your own sake!) have a thesis that all your friends laugh at you about. Heresy is the price of ambition.

Then put yourself in the right environment to maximize your ambition.

(Apply by August 2nd)

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

A low-cost FPV drone achieved direct access to a major substation with no effective resistance.

How resilient is the American grid?

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

Happy 250th! @LawDawgWyatt

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

0/2 @elonmusk, love the service when I can get it.

[Daniel J Hunter @danjohnhunter]

Data centers are straight-up rewiring America’s electrical grid.

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

1/ Today we're announcing Gigascale Capital's $250M first institutional fund to back early-stage founders rebuilding the physical economy.