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Urban Peasant.

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Barkha Dutt's twitter handle is @BDUTT - not @bdutta

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@Kuma50531Kumar Whitefield is hallis and agraharas.

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@itsnitinverma Without the second , the first remains an elusive number.

[Amar Govindarajan @amargov]

Every time someone in India loads a website, the DNS query routes to a root server in the US to get resolved. One of the world's largest internet populations has zero root server clusters of its own - and India is now pushing ICANN to change that.

- MeitY wants a root server cluster in India for the first time
- ICANN runs clusters in Singapore, Europe, the US, Egypt and Kenya, none in India

- India could get 18 servers mirroring all 13 root servers that underpin the internet
- In-country servers cut DNS latency and let ISPs contain cyber attacks at the gateway

good move

https://t.co/FaFwcQDXMd

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@vivekraju93 Next up data on quality of power supply. Frequency of outages fluctuations etc

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@namma_vjy @krishnabgowda @ChristinMP_

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@DrVaishnavi14 @DKShivakumar 👍

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@chandrarsrikant @ChristinMP_ @krishnabgowda Which interest groups want the city littered with garbage?

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Same reason why New Zealand has a cricket team but Brazil does not.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

India: Why a country of 1.4 billion is not in the football World Cup https://t.co/gQ6uYJmF2V

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@sahil_vi Wipro would be indirectly funding Anthropic.

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@amargov @iitbombay cc @nano_arun

[Amar Govindarajan @amargov]

One of the most fun things you'll read this week:

A bunch of @iitbombay 20-somethings spent their college year building an actual semiconductor fab of sorts. They're now weeks from their first working transistor.

Technically it's a "hacker fab".
-basically a semiconductor fab you build in a college for not a lot of money (it's hard work though)
-it makes scrappy chips but who's asking state of art
-open source framework that started in the West.
-only some seven such fabs exist
-the IIT-B one is first outside West.

What @hackerfabindia have built:
-lithography machine = an old projector with the optics flipped, printing at 3–4 microns (a human hair is ~100)
-a 1,100°C furnace built by two first-years from cement, ceramic wool and 50m of resistance wire
-a sputter built in-house
-a vacuum chamber

Whole toolkit:
-Rs 15–20 lakh - roughly a campus racing team's annual budget
-First devices (a diode and a MOSCAP) came off their own tools on 12 June
-Full transistor due by end of summer
-2nd in the world to do it on the open HackerFab framework

Tagline:
Why should TSMC have all the fun? 😎 (good one @aryamman_bhatia & team)

@astrokaran's story 👇

https://t.co/EWcBnKDoPv

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@TXingh @REDBOXINDIA Unless politicians get educated stooges in the sat industry to get cut on every launch we should be OK.

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@YusufDFI Atithi devo bhava

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@microcp2mltibgr Who bought from FIIs ? Retail?

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@DanBochman And it keeps taking tokens. The AI company makes more money with every mistake its model makes.

[Dan Bochman @DanBochman]

Typical coding day with Claude (Opus 4.8)

- explain to Claude the task (5 minutes)
- Claude implements task (10 minutes)

me: "Why is this necessary?"
Claude: "You're right to push back! I over-engineered this!"
- Repeat x87 times (13 hours)

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@therealdanvega Foresight

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@AryamanBharat Others are busy doing share buy backs.

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@bykarthikreddy Idli kadai was a damn good movie

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@davepl1968 @GunnelsWarren They dont need to take. They just need to print. Thats an indirect way of taking.