Vishal kumar

Engineering @meta, prev @Bloomberg

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

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[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

One of the hardest city to drive in. Every time I enter Boston my GPS gives up immediately.

[cynthia⁷ @storysofus]

i didnt even have to look at any of this to know where that is

[Daksh Gupta @dakshgup]

boris cherny goes on a podcast every three months and says something like “i’ve stopped breathing now i just wrote a breath.md” and the next day everyone in sf stops breathing

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

Lmao 🤣

[Anshu @anshuc]

@github holy shit, how did the attackers find a large enough uptime window to get in?

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

2 cycles behind lol.

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

My take is AI-assisted interviews are harder than leetcode based interviews. Curious to hear other people's views on this.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Meta finally abandoning LeetCode for AI-assisted coding interviews.

Biggest big-tech advancement of 2026.

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

This is how you drive engineers morale to the ground. If you put a price on the mistake everyone will be afraid to make the change since you don’t know what will break. Quoting Linus here, “problems are fact of life, there is no perfect”.

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

A buddy of mine ran a large part of the DoorDash engineering org. When an engineer caused an outage, they knew exactly what the revenue cost was, and that revenue cost was hung on that engineer.

They didn't do fines, per se, but it went into performance reviews, and it definitely negatively impacted future promotions / raises - so essentially it was a delayed fine.

More orgs should do this.

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

Really terrible. Can’t believe a company who is into trading would allow such things. DR is the first thing you do before going live. Totally crazy.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Can we for a second appreciate how Robinhood took no responsibility for being down, and tried to put the blame on AWS.

However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Can we for a second appreciate how Robinhood took no responsibility for being down, and tried to put the blame on AWS.

However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

cc @RobinhoodApp

[Michael Sikand @michaelsikand]

$KRKNF another 6% pop today 🦑

Since I posted about Kraken on Monday we're up 35%

The market is slowly becoming less Anduril blind

My PT remains firm at $40 USD

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

Very well articulated @RajatSethi86.

[RajPattem @pattem_raj]

The reality of NRI/PIOs wanting to return to India is well articulated by @RajatSethi86. Highlights the challenges we face with industry, academia, bureaucracy and a politics driven by vote banks, freebies, caste census, and reservations with no urgency to reform for today’s or future challenges.

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

I am very bullish on Zoho. They have a great vision; not getting tied down in making the most exciting app but rather focusing on core infra first. Rarely a company would invest in compilers, low-level networks R&D, but to build a great product, you need to start from 0.

[Ganesh Sonawane @ganeshsonawane]

prediction: zoho will be the most valuable software company ever built in india within a decade

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

This is a great vision. The focus should be on creating a foundational infrastructure which might not make money in short term but it would pay immensely in long term.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

We understand the push for Zoho to go public. But let me state the reality: Arattai would very likely not have been built by a public company that faces quarter to quarter financial pressure. It was a "hopelessly foolish" project, and even our employees had expressed scepticism that Arattai would ever gain any traction.

We built it because we felt we need that kind of engineering capability in Bharat. We need a lot lot more of such capabilities in Bharat and we are on it.

We have some very ambitious, long range R&D projects going on in Zoho, including compilers, databases, OS, security, hardware, chip design, robotics (not to mention AI) and on and on. In addition, we have invested in many R&D intensive companies that we know won't make money soon.

Zoho is a kind of an industrial research lab that also makes money to fund itself. We essentially ignore short term profits, as long as we don't lose money. And we have a culture of founders and senior executives living frugally, like how good scientists and engineers in ISRO would live. To us that is the essence of Bharat. Japan operated that way when it was developing.

Imagine saying all that to Wall Street or Dalal Street!

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

Incorrect, we wanted all. Sure, that loss hurt us the most, but we never ever “only” wanted that.

[Joe @josephradhik]

In the last 31 matches in multinational tournaments, India has won 30 and lost one, while winning 3 tournaments.

But that one we lost, is the only one we wanted. :)

#indvspak2025

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

I don’t think any sports streaming platform is as good as @JioHotstar. @willowtv is same, the streaming stops mid way and when you exit-enter the app you need watch a 5 sec app.

[Venkata Krishna B @venkatatweets]

Sony Liv is awful. It force stops and you have to start the app again and watch the ads for two minutes, catch live action for two balls and start all over again. @SonyLIV

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Inheritance is the root of all evil, use composition as much as possible.

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

Lol

[Carbon Finance @carbonfinancex]

@TheLongInvest Both. Call the left one Warren and the right one Buffett 👌

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

welcome to the team @hwchung27 @_jasonwei and @EdwardSun0909!

some may recognize them from various recent livestreams :)

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

Congrats to all $UNH holders 🚀🚀🚀

[GURGAVIN @gurgavin]

BREAKING: WARREN BUFFETT JUST TOOK A $5 BILLION DOLLAR POSITION IN $UNH

THIS IS THE MYSTERY STOCK THAT HE HAS BEEN BUYING FOR THE LAST 2 QUARTERS

[Laura Kirk-Francis @LauraKirk12]

*runs to LinkedIn*

WHAT CHRIS WOAKES BATTING WITH ONE ARM TAUGHT ME ABOUT B2B SOFTWARE SALES

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

Hmm, pulling out from $HIMS was right after all?

[Vishal kumar @Vishalkmr304]

@TheLongInvest I pulled out from $HIMS today and moved it into $OSCR, will buy $HIMS again if there is downside. I think both have good upsides.