Baskar Ganapathy retweeted
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
Baskar Ganapathy retweeted
multiple big tech companies have essentially one (very well paid) person who really knows how to use AI, and this “AI fixer” is their great hope — taking on projects and educating others.
problem is, some don’t have anyone, and a lot of those frontier people would rather work in a broadly AI-native company and find out what a team of people going this fast can do
This is INSANE. Cisco’s president Jeetu Patel has given a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to try to rewrite 98% of the company’s legacy code within 24 months, Fortune reports.
Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy thinks he can do it with a two-person team. He has just four weeks to prove the approach.
Baskar Ganapathy retweeted
Semler is driving user readiness with Whatfix Mirror.
The automotive giant knows you don’t hit the road without a test drive.
The same goes for new technology.
With Whatfix Mirror, Semler gives employees a realistic space to practice critical workflows without relying on sandbox environments or being interrupted by changes to the live platform.
Practice the workflows in a hyperrealistic environment.
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#whatfixmirror #digitaltransformation #whatfix
Baskar Ganapathy retweeted
Agaram 2.5B is out. It's a Tamil-first language model we trained from scratch at @MuraiLabsHQ , our small non-profit lab. As far as we know, it's the first Tamil model trained from scratch that can call tools.
It chats in Tamil, Tanglish and English, translates, and can call tools. We're releasing the base model, chat model and GGUF files under Apache-2.0. You can download it and run it offline on your own laptop.
The first chat model had a four-day public preview. Seeing where it fell short with real users helped us decide what to work on. We rebuilt the fine-tuning around what we saw, using 222,662 records.
Thank you to everyone who spent time with that early version.
The video walks through the model. You can try it here:
hf.co/spaces/mechramc/agaram…
நன்றி 🙏
When you have a unsubscribe link don't make it harder by having the user enter their email Id again etc. It will create more frustration and bad impression. #JustSayin
Baskar Ganapathy retweeted
Exactly one year ago , honorable PM of India appreciated my efforts in increasing green cover of the nation and also rejuvenating lakes in urban and rural areas. In this last one year @saytrees_ind has completed more projects and have strengthen our team to deliver more in years to come.
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಸ್ಥಿರ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸುವ ಶ್ಲಾಘನೀಯ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದ ಪ್ರಮುಖಾಂಶಗಳು.
#MannKiBaat
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LIVE: PM Shri @NarendraModi inaugurates Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan in New Delhi nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1RJjpbweg…
Baskar Ganapathy retweeted
The one who pays tax,will keep paying more & those who don't will continue to enjoy freebies too. System is rigged.
Wish @FinMinIndia @nsitharamanoffc use some common sense!
After all this Gok vs GoI conflict ends up with #Benguluru and honest taxpayer losing basic liveability.
@PMOIndia
For @RBI @RBIsays @FinMinIndia , making our lives worse. For India’s sake please get your act together. @nsitharaman @sanjeevsanyal @PMOIndia @narendramodi Our banks act like FEMA terrorists for inward remittance, make our lives hell. @RBi should penalize them for harassing us
Baskar Ganapathy retweeted
पूज्य गुरुदेव स्वामी चिन्मयानंद जी के होलोबॉट से पीएम मोदी ने की बात
1993 में हुई मुलाकात का जिक्र करते हुए स्वामी चिन्मयानंद जी ने क्या कहा? सुनिए
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Every forest has a story but this one is special. It was not an easy decision to plant 2000 saplings using Miyawaki method in 2016 in #Bengaluru.
What followed was endless efforts by many nature lovers to ensure that the patch of land in KR puram Bengaluru becomes an example for many plantations to come. Looking back, all I can say that it was worth it.
At Diesel Loco Shed, KR Puram, Bengaluru, @saytrees_ind began with a simple but ambitious idea: could a small patch of land grow into a thriving urban forest?
Nearly a decade later, the answer stands beneath a canopy reaching 30 feet.
🌱 The idea grew beyond one site. What began with 2,000 saplings became part of a larger journey in urban afforestation, with 60+ urban forests across Bengaluru and many more across India.
We plant the beginning. Nature builds what comes next.
#MiyawakiMethod #UrbanForestry #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #EcosystemRestoration #SayTrees
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PM @narendramodi will inaugurate the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan on 23 October 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. He will also address the gathering on the occasion.
The three-day Sammelan, being held from 23 to 25 October 2026, will bring together over 9,000 participants from India and abroad. It marks the culmination of the year-long celebrations commemorating 75 years of the Chinmaya Mission, a global spiritual movement founded by Swami Chinmayananda in 1951 to make the wisdom of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita accessible to all. Over the decades, the Mission has expanded its work across spiritual education, cultural preservation, youth empowerment and community service.
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