Software, current affairs, solitude. ex Dhan @dhanhq , ex Nazara

Mumbai,India
Joined October 2009
Real compounding of equity happens in the early years in a high growth startup. Your knowledge, network and equity all should compound in a fair world. Don't work just for a year or two, one should lock-in the fair upside and commit till the right milestone is achieved.
Someone I know joined Swiggy in the initial days. Then quit within couple of years. Now suddenly made 60 crores. Now confused what to do, has a stable job. All incremental horders of money envy the windfall guy.
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Today, we're announcing Nitro: a formally verified agentic system for compiling your most complex SQL workloads into Rust. Our design partners are running millions of dollars of critical workloads through this and seeing 10x faster, 3x cheaper ETL. Reach out to try it.
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Baddie banao yojana is live. 💅 ₹544 for a 2% salicylic acid face wash. Jan Aushadhi has a 2% option for ₹66. Same active ingredient. Wildly different prices. So I built SameSalt: search the brands you buy, see the same-salt swap, find a Kendra near you.
Baddie banao yojana coming soon
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Mobile PLI stats as follows: Government incentive paid: Rs 19,000 Cr. Direct tax collected: Rs 25,000 Cr. GST collected: Rs 3,00,000 Cr. Electronics manufacturing employs 25 Lakh people; mobile manufacturing alone employs 12 Lakh. Cope harder!!
One in four iPhones is made in India, but imported parts and costly subsidies complicate the success story. @andymukherjee70 takes apart an iPhone to explain why copying China's manufacturing model may not pay off 🎥
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Today we open sourced DevBox under MIT license. About 35% of our internal PRs are merged by DevBox now. You can run it on your own machine or run it in your cloud. Works natively with @linear and @github github.com/rudderlabs/devbox
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Unslopping a vibecoded dashboard
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CleanYourTV v3.1 is out 📺 What's new: • Samsung, LG and Roku owners get a fix too • 41 new TVs, 7 new brands • TV Inspector: see what every remote button sends • 5 more add-ons, from Bluetooth to a news screensaver 323 PRs merged from 176 contributors since v3.0 🙏🏻
CleanYourTV 3.0 is here 📺 Your TV can now: • Show your Home Assistant lights and locks • Pause your Pi-hole from the couch • Get cleaned from your phone, no laptop needed • Turn any remote button into a shortcut Plus 52 new TVs and 28 languages, from 169 contributors 🙏
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After a year of quiet work, I'm ready to announce Egres. Egres is a Postgres-compatible database designed to tackle heavy workloads and run thousands of tenants on the same server. It works with psql and drivers unchanged. The post covers the what, the why and the how: manishrjain.com/egres/ For Egres, I wrote a new storage engine called zdb: a tree of LSM trees, which I call an LSM forest. It runs on local disk or object storage, has roaring bitmaps integration for indexing, and can do instant zero-copy branches of a database or a table. Everything runs on zfiber, a coroutine system I wrote for Egres. It meters CPU ticks, disk IOPS and memory used per query, per tenant, so thousands of tenants can share the same server without the noisy neighbor problem. This release is single node and the query features are very basic. Raft replication is already baked in. Future releases will allow multi-node clusters. Try it out! Would love to hear what you think.
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Just finished testing OpenPost for: - Instagram (FREE) - Discord (FREE) - Bluesky (FREE) - Mastodon (FREE) - X/Twitter ($0.015/post) All using official platform APIs. All of the above took about 30 min to get access and set up. Creating documentation with step by step guide on how to quickly do the one-time account setup for these platform. Tomorrow I test a few other platforms and open source this thing right after 🤝
Paying $99/month was getting a little too expensive... So I built my own open source alternative that now costs me LESS THAN $1/month to run. YES, 99x CHEAPER! 🤯 Introducing Open Post, an open source alternative to Post Bridge that lets you post to all your social media accounts from one dashboard. I'll be open sourcing it on GitHub this coming week once I finish testing each social media integration. And just to be clear... This isn't about taking business away from an existing SaaS. I simply wanted to build something cheaper for myself that does the exact same thing. If you want a ready-to-use solution and don't mind paying $40-$100/month, definitely check out the original SaaS! But if you prefer self-hosting and saving money, Open Post is coming soon for free. 🚀
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finally made it open-source! enjoy 😉 github.com/kargulstudio/cale…
calendar dashboard 📅
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Ramp: Postgres + Temporal + task queues + worker fleet. @omnaraai: Postgres + workers. The log is the agent. A worker claims the next step, appends the result, and lets go. That's the whole durable execution layer. Ramp’s own takeaway after five months of building: even in-house, "you still need good engineers to be on-call, keep the platform healthy." Most teams can’t staff a platform team for this, and you shouldn’t have to. Open source. Free to self-host. Free on our cloud with your own keys.
We at Ramp tried a bunch of agent harnesses and ended up building our own. Cloud-native, model-agnostic, tailored to our infrastructure and product. And we published how we built it: builders.ramp.com/post/build…
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STT is literally the investors being penalised for being active. Yet all the isolated bonkering on LTCG alone
JUST IN: Centre is considering a cut in the 12.5% LTCG tax on Equities ahead of Budget FY28
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this graphic is way more confusing than it needs to be. tldr: - WebMCP: tools defined in the JS of a page, therefore can only be called when that page is open in a browser. - MCP: tools defined on a server that can be accessed via HTTP, therefore can be called from anywhere. if you understand this, you understand all of the follow-up implications around auth, UI, etc.
No, WebMCP isn't replacing MCP. MCP connects agents to your services. WebMCP connects agents to your website while it's open and the user's in the loop. Here's how they fit together ⤵️
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Samsung, LG and other non-Android TV owners, this one's for you!! 🎉 After the recent TV privacy findings, this is a must. No root, No bricking. • Turn off ACR, the setting that watches your screen • Guided steps for every model and year • Block tracking at your router
Is your TV on the list? 👀 293 TV models from 83 brands! All tested by people on their own TVs. Free and open source. No root, nothing uninstalled.
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HOLY F*CK, motion studio in 20 repos. 20 open-source skills for Opus 5.5. Animation. Physics. 3D. Sound. Delivery. 01 Remotion → React video engine github.com/remotion-dev/remo… 02 HyperFrames → HTML-to-video renderer github.com/heygen-com/hyperf… 03 Anime.js → Timeline choreography github.com/juliangarnier/ani… 04 React Spring → Spring animation github.com/pmndrs/react-spri… 05 PixiJS → GPU-powered 2D graphics github.com/pixijs/pixijs 06 p5.js → Generative visuals github.com/processing/p5.js 07 Paper.js → Vector paths github.com/paperjs/paper.js 08 Matter.js → 2D physics github.com/liabru/matter-js 09 Three.js → 3D scenes github.com/mrdoob/three.js 10 Rapier → 3D collisions github.com/dimforge/rapier 11 OGL → Custom shaders github.com/oframe/ogl 12 tsParticles → Particle effects github.com/tsparticles/tspar… 13 glTF Transform → 3D asset optimization github.com/donmccurdy/glTF-T… 14 GL Transitions → Shader transitions github.com/gl-transitions/gl… 15 OBS Studio → Screen capture github.com/obsproject/obs-st… 16 Chatterbox → Voiceovers github.com/resemble-ai/chatt… 17 Tone.js → Synths and sound effects github.com/Tonejs/Tone.js 18 faster-whisper → Caption transcription github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-wh… 19 OpenCut → Timeline editing github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenC… 20 FFmpeg → Encoding and delivery github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg Brief → prototype → animate → render → ship. Bookmark this. Go build something worth watching ↓
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Your Samsung TV doesn't have a microphone. But it knows where to find one. A soundbar. A Bluetooth speaker. Any connected device with audio input. The TV hunts for it. Finds it. Uses it. All without asking permission. A config file called csapi-tv-service-alwaysonvoice. Always on. Always listening. Never stops. The TV listens through your soundbar. Classifies the audio before shipping it off. Dog barking event. Counts it. Sends it. Baby crying event. Counts it. Sends it. How long the camera streamed. Counts it. Sends it. Sensor preferences. Counts it. Sends it. All wrapped in telemetry. All going back to Samsung. @log4j found it in the firmware October 23. Posted about it. Twitter caught fire. Samsung calls it Q-Symphony. A feature. A unified sound ecosystem. Five Samsung devices talking together. Optimizing channel distribution. Sounds nice. Also means five microphones reporting back. The TV presents it as convenience. You get better audio. Samsung gets everything you say. A soundbar you bought to make your movie louder. Became a microphone you didn't know you owned. Samsung didn't hide it. Just didn't mention it. In the privacy policy. In the manual. In the setup screen. Just assumed you'd never check the config files. Now researchers are checking the config files. And finding microphones everywhere.
this is pretty evil and clever. so if your samsung TV model doesnt have a microphone, it will look for connected devices with one, such as a soundbar or a connected bluetooth device. this gets shipped off to bixby.
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Well it's official, BeautifulRust has been the fastest growing open source project I've ever created. Sometimes you just put something out into the world and find people seem to dig it. Glad to see so many people love Rust as much as I do, and care about writing clean Rust code. I think we are moving into a time where poorly written code matters even more because if an agent misunderstands something, you'll burn a lot of tokens doing the wrong thing. One of the biggest feature requests I've had over the last 24-hours is adding the ability to turn C, C++ and Python code into nice, clean, idiomatic Rust. So I'm building that out now. Rust on 🤘 🦀 github.com/morganlinton/Beau…
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Introducing Pomerado (YC F26): the faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to browser use. Open source. Sign up for free to supercharge your agents 🧵
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cvENGINE: the most advanced external attack surface assessment you can get for free. Point it at a domain: bbot, nmap, and Nuclei map your attack surface, then an AI proves which CVEs can actually hit you with read-only checks. github.com/hevnsnt/CVEngine
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While I reverse engineering my Wi-Fi router, Claude found f*cking scary privacy problem... Internet provider sees every site I open and can change anything in my router without asking me here's what else it found and 5 steps to fix yours: what Claude found: • my router keeps a list of 29 devices that ever touched my Wi-Fi and see when new connects • my provider can reach into my router any time, Claude found channel hiding in my connection name, and I have no way to turn it off • every site I opened was looked up though my provider in plain text • my provider's app on my TV box kept sending data while TV was off • and much more... and it's not just me: - about 1 billion devices have this remote channel (University of Innsbruck) - researhers pulled 2 billion+ router locations from Apple's Wi-Fi database, accurate to meters (University of Maryland) how to fix yours: 1. install repo below (It also helps improve Wi-Fi speed) and send Claude Code a photo of your router 2. change admin password from the one on the sticker 3. turn on encrypted DNS, your provider stops seeing your lookups 4. turn on Private Wi-Fi Address, your phone stops showing its real ID to every router 5. add _normal to your Wi-Fi name, Apple and Google stop adding it to their location maps Do it as soon as possible. Then read article below on how to find these problems in other tech:
REA is most dangerous thing on the internet right now... It lets your AI agent reverse engineer any app, down to the binary If you use it correctly, you can rebuild any feature you pay for, for FREE In this article, I show you how:
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your Postgres queue is fine until someone leaves a transaction open then SKIP LOCKED stops being a queue and becomes a dead-tuple factory we measured it at 1k events/s: - 4.1M dead tuples in 89 minutes - dequeue latency up ~3000x (!!) PgQue doesn't have this problem. at all. consumers never UPDATE or DELETE they just read. zero dead tuples -- engine built 20y ago at Skype, and served in large Postgres setups for two decades now revived in plain SQL to work anywhere 3.5 min, explained (sound on) 👇
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