suresh chintada

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[India First Post @ifpost47]

Indian-origin restaurant manager in London sprinted across rooftops and caught a 3-year-old girl as she fell from a second-floor window after dangling for nearly 9 minutes.

While onlookers watched in horror and police struggled to reach her in time, he acted without hesitation. The rescue ended with an emotional hug from a police officer.

Funny how anti-India clips go viral worldwide within hours, but stories of Indians saving lives rarely get the same attention from major Western media or social media algorithms.

Courage doesn't trend as easily as propaganda. But this hero deserves to be seen. 👏

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@arshdeep3444 💯 He is proof that India doesn't have a dearth of talent, just a lack of appreciation for grassroot sports. Neither the state, nor the private investment want to spend the money to bolster the infra, not just the buildings, but the coaching pipeline, technology, skills training.

[India First Post @ifpost47]

Indian worker Vipin Kumar has been awarded honorary citizenship by the city of Craiova, Romania, after he jumped into an icy lake and saved the life of a 5-year-old girl. 🇮🇳🇷🇴

For nearly 30 minutes, he held the child above freezing water until rescuers arrived.

This is the side of Indians the world rarely sees in headlines: courage, sacrifice, compassion and humanity.

Yet stories like this seldom receive the attention that anti-India narratives do. No coverage from Western media outlets.

As India's envoy noted, Vipin's actions embodied the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam "The World is One Family." ❤️

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@joybhattacharj I am the proof🇦🇷

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@paulg LoL

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@YostinNBA Terrible

[suresh chintada @csknet]

Just shows that there is no point fighting over BLR vs HYD, real fight should be to fight our ability to tolerate this nonsense as tax payers

[Prasad Peketi @PrasadPeketi]

#HyderabadRains

Rain of 4cms in this season, City is on the knees . Unplanned growth + removal of FSI and concentration of companies at just west of Hyderabad. In this same area recently one acre of Govt land was sold for 240 Crores

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@manujosephsan Thanks for bringing this out. It's for everyone to see on any city roads. It almost feels like traffic police are asked to turn a blind eye to the wrong side driving. @btppubliceye

[प्रणव @PranavaBhardwaj]

Khushwant Singh😀

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@MrSadanand @vavasthi That itself shows a narrow mindset, c'mon.

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@elonmusk What are you implying? Also sounds a bit, shallow argument

[Sundeep Misra @MisraSundeep]

I thought you knew better.

This ₹8 crore announcement is nothing but a cheap populist gimmick masquerading as a sports development strategy.

Let’s be honest, for West Bengal’s sports minister, this is a completely risk-free promise. It costs the state exchequer absolutely nothing right now.

It’s just pure political point-scoring.

After an athlete wins an Olympic medal, the market takes care of them (you know that). The endorsements, the corporate sponsorships, the brand deals, it all flows naturally. They don’t need the money then. They need it at age 16 to buy equipment, get proper supplements, and afford flight tickets to competitions.

Instead of hanging this ₹8 crore carrot, why aren’t we giving monthly or yearly stipends to 16-year-olds tracking toward the Games? We should be using data and sports science to understand athlete performance and predict who can actually make it to the elite level.

Just for a second, imagine taking the budget of one hypothetical Olympic gold and silver medal which is roughly ₹14 crores. If you distribute that across 15 sports in various junior and senior national championships as ₹5-10 lakh cash prizes, you will instantly create a rock-solid domestic ecosystem. Kids don’t drop out of sports because the Olympic gold reward isn’t high enough; they drop out because winning a national championship gold doesn’t pay their rent or buy their kits.

Look at Great Britain. They use a sports lottery to calculate exactly how much a track athlete, shooter, cyclist, or rower needs to live comfortably, access high-performance coaching, and train full-time without needing a second job. They fund the preparation. The medals are just a byproduct of that preparation.

We need to stop blindly applauding these massive numbers. It's time to stop supporting administrators who pretend they care about sports with flashy headlines, while refusing to do the actual hard work of building tracks, modernizing university sports, and establishing a real local club infrastructure.

#prizemoney #westbengal2026

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@ananyashasau Zero bribe.

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.

May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?

Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?

In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?

The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.

It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.

Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.

Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?

India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.

[suresh chintada @csknet]

@abk6580 @mihirsv Looting public money is the name of the game. It gets different hues and shades, but most of the time it's the people in power who exploit the 'opportunity' to plunder.

[Bangalore Development Authority @BDAOfficialGok]

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[suresh chintada @csknet]

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