Akram Hussein

CPTO @ @NirvanaLabsai, ex-founder @VektorFinance (acq. by Nirvana Labs)

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

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[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

I updated my iOS and it said “We need to verify you are over 18”

I clicked “OK”.

“We confirmed it due to the age of your account”

[Nirvana Labs @nirvanalabsai]

New from Nirvana Cloud ✨

🛠 Equivalent Code panel
🔐 API key permissions
💼 SIEM integration
🚪 JIT provisioning controls
🐙 GitHub sign-in
💾 Volume attach/detach

Check it out:
https://t.co/TLNy88RB43

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

@MikeSilagadze Had many of these:

1. Their LinkedIn has low connection count. Also profile tends to 404 after months
2. Ask for number and work email of past colleagues (who still work there). They never can.
3. They can do interview at any hour of any day with no pushback.

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

@emcross23 Pretty sure @nubank offers this and more.

You can Pix using your credit card, you can retrospectively split up a payment etc.

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

When I worked at Dyson I heard a story James would claim the iMac G3 was inspired by the DC02. Steve Jobs told him to stop. So James forwarded him Jony Ive's email saying it was true.

[Sam Haveson @samhaves]

Apple 50th anniversary installation at the office featuring classic Mac lineup

[Nirvana Labs @nirvanalabsai]

NKS is live 📣

If you’re using #Kubernetes, this just makes it easier.

Same configs. No control plane to manage. Scales with you. No extra cost.

Spin up a cluster on Nirvana now: https://t.co/KtWqcJGv1b

#K8s #DevOps #Cloud #Infrastructure

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

Natural conclusion of this is Apple releasing an Agent app on iOS that securely communicates to your mac or mac server where a local modal runs trained on how to navigate the mouse and your data while taps into a low-level/latency screen feed so it can skip higher layers.

[Felix Rieseberg @felixrieseberg]

Today, we’re releasing a feature that allows Claude to control your computer: Mouse, keyboard, and screen, giving it the ability to use any app.

I believe this is especially useful if used with Dispatch, which allows you to remotely control Claude on your computer while you’re away.

[Nirvana Labs @nirvanalabsai]

📣 Product Update:

Organizations, Projects, Member Management, Audit Logs, and SAML SSO are now live.

Everything enterprise teams need for better control, security, and visibility when running production infrastructure.

🔗 Details:
https://t.co/fm6PHddsqO

[Nirvana Labs @nirvanalabsai]

Nirvana ABS is live. 💾🔥

Accelerated Block Storage built for always-on blockchain workloads.

[Nirvana Labs @nirvanalabsai]

New site, who dis? 👀👇

Explore how the Performance Cloud actually works, from full-stack cloud to nodes, clients, and real-world case studies.

You can also reach us directly on Telegram for a chat or to spin up a node 💬

Check it out now: https://t.co/yfSOYfkuuL

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

This could be baked into stablecoins directly - merchant agrees to receive 10 installments of USDC but your crypto wallet invests it in lending market over that period and you collect and share the yield with wallet, merchant and yourself that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

Just the start. Higher rates make newer fintech plays viable.

In Brazil, Nubank gives cardholders a ~1% discount if they pay off their 10-month installments early.

Customers front Nubank the money, Nubank invests it, pays the installments themselves and pockets a spread.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Good post on evolving stablecoin market structure. I would extend it further: yes, I think that stablecoin issuers are going to have to share yield with others, but this is just one instance. Everyone is going to have to share yield. Today, the average interest on US savings deposits is 0.40% (FDIC data), and $4T of US bank deposits earn 0% interest.* Things aren't better in the EU: 0.25% average interest on non-corporate deposits; corporate deposits just 0.51%.** In my view, this is going to change: depositors are going to (and should!) earn something closer to a market return on their capital.

(Some lobbies are currently pushing, post-GENIUS, to further restrict any kinds of rewards associated with stablecoin deposits. The business imperative here is clear -- cheap deposits are great -- but being so consumer hostile feels to me like a losing position.)

* See FRED's memorably-titled QBPBSTLKDPDOFFDPNIDP time series.
** MIR.M.U2.B.L21.A.R.A.2250.EUR.N and MIR.M.U2.B.L21.A.R.A.2240.EUR.N from the ECB.

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

Big day!

Vektor's been acquired by Nirvana Labs!

Looking forward to combining the power and speed of Vektor's extensive DeFi APIs with Nirvana's best-in-class low-latency RPC nodes and high performance cloud infrastructure to empower customers around the world.

[Vektor @VektorFinance]

We've been acquired!🎉

Vektor is joining @nirvanalabsai, the leading web3 cloud infrastructure provider.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

Stanford and Berkeley students start companies at 5x the rate of Oxford and Cambridge.

Why the smartest, most technical people in the UK should take more risk 🚀

https://t.co/c9wk0UfrUA

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

Tried to raise in 2010 - ghost town. Got ~2 meetings and laughed out the room.

Felt like all the dot-com era founders who made some money had ploughed most of it into UK/Spanish property and very few if any startups.

Tried raising in 2016 - better but still not there, super risk-averse.

Raised in 2021 - was 100x better. Still not SV but @mattjackrob @soundboy @matthewclifford etc were a breath of fresh air.

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

Finally met @thinkingvols.

Was everything I hoped for and more.

#AchievementUnlocked

[Vektor @VektorFinance]

You asked, we delivered.

@solana support coming 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯™.

Sign up now to be notified for early access 👇

[Akram Hussein @ahussein]

@eddylazzarin @haydenzadams Echos what @boztank said about Thrift's development on @lennysan podcast - over-optimized on encoding at cost of devex when bandwidth & storage would get cheaper anyways.

https://t.co/TlvUGwEWPe