Yesterday I was talking to a friend who's grinding MERN, expecting it to land him a startup job and yk most engineers still prep for interviews like it's 2020
YC founders today don't care if you can reverse a linked list or spin up a basic server. They care if you can ship something that survives real traffic, and if you think like you own the problem instead of waiting to be told what to do.
Change my mind.
We can measure what part of the shelf gets customer attention without any additional hardware. Just your normal CCTV cameras and a digital twin made with the phone in your pocket.
@CactusXR will absolutely revolutionize how well stores can do their merchandising.
Hi, I'm Riya — an SDE-1 @ Zomato.
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I’m planning to open-source the repo so we can all learn from it. Drop a comment with any features or improvements you'd love to see, and I’ll try to bake them in! 🛠️
I’ve been building my own AI coding agent (think Claude Code/Codex) over the last few days! 🚀 Most of the heavy lifting is done—now I’m just fine-tuning the toolset.
X just open-sourced its entire recommendation algorithm
No more black box — see exactly why your feed is rage bait, memes, or genius (or all 3). Who's diving into the code first? Devs building better feeds
Conspiracy theorists hunting "shadows"
#XAlgorithm#OpenSource