Hao Tang

Enjoy every single day. I’m definitely the top 10 happiest person on Earth right now.

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@tobi @adamwathan Claude is not quite good in terms of of value gained from money spent

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

Love this!
They're addressing the right issue at the right bottlenecks.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Singapore just went all in on birth rates
Fertility fell to a record-low 0.87 in 2025. Birth rates have fallen seriously low

That’s not just a dip. That’s a whole country nowhere near replacing itself. It's a massive problem for the country

So Singapore is going directly after the biggest things making parenthood harder: money, time, childcare and housing

Money:
- Every Singaporean child will receive around S$70,000 in direct financial support from birth to age 17
- S$10,000 Baby Gift during the first year
- S$2,000 every year from age 1 to 16.
- Plus MediSave, CDA support, Edusave and another S$10,000 education top-up at 17
- And every child gets the same baseline support regardless of whether they’re the first or fourth child

Time:
Childcare leave is increasing to:
• 8 days for one child
• 10 days for two
• 12 days for three or more
And it now covers children all the way through age 12.
The government will cover the cost of statutory child-related leave up to the reimbursement limit, taking that burden off employers

Housing:
- First-time families will get an extra BTO ballot chance for every child they have or are expecting.
- More kids = more chances of securing a home.
The BTO income ceiling is also rising from S$14,000 to S$16,000

Childcare:
- Government-supported full-day childcare is being pushed toward S$150/month and infant care toward S$300/month by 2030

Cash alone was never going to fix collapsing birth rates.
Singapore is attacking the actual friction around having children: the cost, the time, childcare and getting a home

If you want people to have more children, make having children easier
Singapore is actually trying that

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

Love this! ❤️
Healthy and happy nuclear families are essential to a functioning society.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

Be a chainbreaker - Dad’s are everything ❤️

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

You’re a useless taker, Bernie. You don’t have the credibility to blame the great makers like these billionaires.
You’re taking salary from tax payers and are doing terrible job and failed all performance metrics of your job! You will be fired, soon!

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Since Trump won in 2024, this is how much richer the oligarchs have become:

Elon Musk: $531 billion
Larry Page: $139 billion
Jeff Bezos: $60 billion
Sergey Brin: $128 billion
Michael Dell: $107 billion

FIGHT FOR AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR ALL, NOT JUST THE FEW.

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@mazemoore LA Lakers are blessed to get rid of him!

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@PressSec @EricLDaugh You did a GREAT job, Karoline! We’re going to miss you!

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

Great thing is coming!

[DHH @dhh]

THE ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in! https://t.co/zuf5h9ClWX

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Ben Thompson on the two things Silicon Valley relearns every 10 years:

1) "Consumers do not want to pay for software"
2) "Consumers do not care about being productive"

"If you're going to be in the consumer market, you have to be doing advertising.

We went through this in early SaaS. The canonical company for this is Dropbox.

They had to rebuild the whole thing and realize the only way we're going to make money is by selling to companies.

You literally had OpenAI replaying the Dropbox story, but at like 100x the size.

We're going to sell subscriptions to consumers. And they did. They sold a lot, but they didn't sell enough.

If they had leaned into advertising immediately, as soon as ChatGPT was a hit, I think they would have a great ad product right now.

Charging people money is hard. Giving people things for free is easy."

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@WesRoth JDD: @claudeai Codex did a great job at $12k. What is your cheaper and better solution? 😄

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

They ignored Elon’s warning and now have to learn the lessons in the most expensive way: losing a lot of diamond/platinum loyal customers.
Same story for the Lidar guys. They have been warned too.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Elon Musk was right. He warned Delta this would happen, and now his prediction is coming true.

Delta is losing customers to competing airlines specifically for Starlink. And as Elon warned, it will only get worse.

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@readswithravi "My wife once told me"??? Lol, your wife must be a philosopher 😂

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@paulg YC can vibe-clone any app ideas of the founders once they found out PMF and let one CEO/partner + tons of AI agents running the new companies right?

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@TechCrunch Will they use Relay to automate their bankruptcy process?

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Cursor close celebration meal. Sunday for 1 hour over $12 pasta. Then back to work …

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

This a good suggestion. WNBA should consider.

[dank @cptdankkk]

Shaquille O’Neal says the solution to making the WNBA more exciting is to lower the rim so players can dunk

“In men’s beach volleyball and women’s beach volleyball, the net is lowered just a little bit”

“The only thing missing from the WNBA to the NBA game is the dunk. I’m not saying lower it to 9 feet or 8 feet… so they can dunk”

“I think if they did that, it would make the game more exciting. They got the handles, they got the shooters, they got the showmanship, they just don’t have the dunk. Just imagine if you lower the rim just a little bit”

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@elonmusk @mntruell Looking forward to get more in-app discount for Grok Build 😘

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@Highway_30 You go girl! @WNBA let her play!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

He was a wise man

[Hao Tang @haotangio]

@paulg Ask Fable to solve it huh? 🤔