Eknath Iyer

Security @stripe. personal opinions only. Activity here doesn't reflect opinion of my employer.

[Ravi @10xravi]

New York is going crazy over invite-only supper clubs right now. Strangers at one long table, a meal that comes with a story. Hyderabad has been doing this quietly for years, and most people here still don't know it exists. Good to see our food finally going beyond the biryani.

My top 03 worth knowing:

1. The Long Table by Pragati Mitta. A lawyer who quit law to cook. She builds every dish around the Indian seasons, with a few international touches, and talks you through each one as it hits the table.

2. Pazirai by Samiya and Yunus. Dinner inside a 127-year-old heritage home. The old Hyderabadi recipes (Biryani, Kebabs, Marag and few surprises) most families stopped making, served the way they used to be. Dress traditional, they mean it.

3. Vinnu's Kitchen Saga, the 1st Telugu supper club and the newest one. Eight strangers, eight dishes, 8 PM. You walk in alone and leave with people you'll actually text again.

Hyderabad never lost the art of feeding people like guests. New York is selling it back to the world as a trend. We've just been calling it Sunday.

[Lakshya A Agrawal @LakshyAAAgrawal]

Excited to see the use of GEPA-optimized LLM judges for data filtering in MAI-Thinking-1 model's pre-training pipeline!

[Eknath Iyer @eknath]

@OldTamilPoetry What timing.. perfectly describes my confusion regarding whether or not I should trade in semi conductor industry ( $MU $SNDK $INTC etc)

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Will Smith eating pasta is now the official benchmark for AI progress.

This is actually insane.

[Old Tamil Poetry @OldTamilPoetry]

Thirukkural - 514. "All the tests in the world cannot predict how a man will act once he is on the job

[Rahul Sanghi @RahulSanghi1]

For the last three years, a startup in Bangalore has been obsessed with a pursuit that typically invites raised eyebrows, naked skepticism, and accusations of stealing from sci-fi:

@dognosis is training dogs to detect cancer.

And until you've spent time at their facility - a former pomegranate farm in the outskirts of Bangalore - perhaps skepticism is the rational response.

But Dognosis isn't betting on some pie-in-the-sky idea or some charming novelty act, they're betting on evolution.

@akadogluk and @Itamar_Bitan based their company on the fact that the dog's nose - a product of fifteen millennia of co-evolution with humans - can detect the faint chemical trace of cancer in your breath at a resolution that our machines, algorithms, and laboratory tests have never come close to matching.

We've known this fact for decades. We've consistently failed to do anything meaningful with that knowledge.

The missing link has been figuring out what the dog's nose knows, and applying it in a standardised, scalable, and clinically validated way.

Dognosis is building this missing piece of the equation i.e. the translation layer that allows the dog's nose to speak a language medicine can understand, enabling us to harness an ancient biological intelligence and plug it into our modern medical infrastructure.

Maybe you've read the paragraphs above and retained your skepticism. That's fair. But this past Friday, the Journal of Clinical Oncology - the world's most influential cancer journal - opted to make life much harder for the skeptics.

On Friday, the JCO published Dognosis' landmark study on breath-based multi-cancer detection - the largest of its kind ever conducted - showing that a team of trained dogs, equipped with sensors and AI, could detect multiple cancers from breath alone at 90%+ accuracy - including at Stage I, when it matters most - for $2 a test.

According to Akash, it proved "that everything we’ve known about the dogs is true".

Needless to say, it's a genuine milestone for Indian healthcare, health-tech, deep-tech, and, uh, dog-tech, that deserves far more attention than it's gotten so far.

To help change that, we were lucky to have Akash stop by the Tigerfeathers editorial desk this past week to unpack the Dognosis journey - helping us understand what they're building, how they're doing it, why it matters, and what comes next.

From where we're sitting, Dognosis is an n-of-1 Indian startup with an n-of-1 story that everyone in the Indian tech ecosystem should be aware of. If you've been intrigued by what you've read so far and you're keen to go deeper, dive into our piece here👇

https://t.co/limlGrgxJ1

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Gama @GamaCahaya]

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[alex zhang @a1zhang]

https://t.co/p98KzjT73k

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

I've been saying for 2 quarters, this is the theme of 2026.

(Hence my obsession with DSPy...)

[spacy @dosco]

vibe coding tips
- always use the biggest model
- spend max time on plan
- actually read the plan
- include integration tests
- ask to do a second, third, forth pass
- know your codebase
- have good taste
- understand the thing

[james hawkins @james406]

i just woke up my daughter (2yo) to tell her i'd just discovered a new agentic AI framework that will 10x my productivity

rubbing her eyes, she said, “dad, you haven't shipped a single meaningful feature that supports our KPIs for FY26. i'm struggling to believe a new framework you haven't tested will deliver meaningful shareholder value”

hugging her, i started crying. they grow up so fast.

[DEBASHISH NEOGI @DEBU_NEOGI]

*Sanju Samson*: "

When people talk about my journey, they usually start with stadiums.

*For me, it always begins with a bus.*

I was eleven. My kit bag felt heavier than me. *I would leave home in Vizhinjam before the sun came up, change two buses, and reach the Medical College ground by 6 in the morning. Some days I was sleepy. Some days I was sore. But I don’t remember ever wanting to skip it* .

After practice, I would bathe under a small tap at the corner of the ground. No dressing room. Just cold water, a towel in my bag, and a quick change into my school uniform. Then I’d walk to catch another bus to St Joseph’s. School, homework, and then back again for evening nets.
That was my life. Every day

I didn’t think of it as a sacrifice. I just thought — this is what it takes.

*My grandfather was a fisherman. Watching him, I understood something early. You can’t control the sea. You can only control how prepared you are when you go out. Some days you come back with nothing. But you still wake up the next morning and go again. That stayed with me* .

There were phases when I felt close to my dream. And phases when I felt very far from it. Being dropped. Sitting out. Hearing opinions. Smiling outside but questioning yourself inside.
I won’t lie, it hurts. I’m human.

*But every time I feel that doubt, I go back in my mind to that small tap at the ground. To the buses. To my parents adjusting their lives around my practice. I remind myself that this journey was never built on comfort. It was built on consistency* .
When I play in Thiruvananthapuram and hear the crowd shout my name, it feels personal. They didn’t just see me succeed. They saw me grow. They saw the process.

I am still that boy from Vizhinjam. I still love batting the same way. I still get nervous. I still want to prove myself. The only difference is the stage.

*The fight hasn’t stopped. It probably never will* .

*Because for me, cricket was never about fame* .

*It was about a dream I chose , and keep choosing : every single day* . "

*~ Sanju Samson*

[Nimish Dubey @nimishdubey]

“That’s out and thank you for a wonderful match.”

Umpires are supposed to be neutral and Dickie Bird certainly was, but even he could not but smile as he raised his finger to give Michael Holding out leg before to Mohinder Amarnath, handing India the World Cup on 25 June, 1983. A distraught Joel Garner watches.

India’s control of the game in the final session was a masterclass in strangulation. The West Indies had gone in to tea at 76-5 in 25 overs, needing another 108 to win. With Bacchus and Dujon at the crease and the very handy Marshall and Roberts still to come, they were still favourites to win as the asking rate was barely 3 an hour.

Kapil Dev however marshalled the field and bowling brilliantly, so much so that not a single four was conceded in the 27 overs bowled after tea. Dujon did hit a six, but apart from that runs came in a trickle, and l towards the end, the asking rate actually became an issue. Binny did not open the bowling but came in late with a brilliant spell of 10-1-23-1, and then there was Mohinder with 7-0-12-3.

When Holding was last out, West Indies needed 41 at almost five an over, so badly had the most attacking in the world been starved of runs that day at Lord’s.

In his book “That’s out,” Dickie Bird remembers Kapil Dev telling him at the end of every over after tea, as the umpires changed ends “We have got them now.”

They did indeed.

#cricket #WorldCup #1983worldcup #India #KapilDev #Nostalgia

@Raja_Sw @anandkumarn @VatsMusings @tds122 @Koushik_laribee

[Nico Bailon @nicopreme]

Created an agent skill called “Visual Explainer” + set of complementary slash commands aimed to reduce my cognitive debt so the agent can explain complex things as rich HTML pages. The skill includes reference templates and a CSS pattern library so output stays consistently well-designed. Much easier for me to digest than squinting at walls of terminal text.

https://t.co/TsbtZwCtxg

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

🇮🇳 Good morning India! A lot of you asked for full-length mock JEE Main tests in @GeminiApp at no cost - done! Good luck on your prep!

Last week, SAT. This week, JEE.

What other global exams would be most helpful?

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

This is ridiculously well done.

https://t.co/EIkvGOtCsz

[Guido van Rossum @gvanrossum]

The *typeagent* project implements long-term memory for agents that's better than RAG. We extract "knowledge" using an LLM which gives better precision/recall. Find code and presentation at https://t.co/VVbAATAcIP

[Sinatras @myainotez]

PMPP-Eval is live, together with pmpp env and dataset,

Releasing "Programming Massively Parallel Processors" book turned into environment that lets your LLM practice over QA/Coding exercises. Touched the whole process of going from a book to a optimized CUDA env over on blog.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

i'm really tired of ragebait on how advanced china's industrial base is.

let's dispel this by diving into NIST's MIC report.

note: do not read this if you're a gullible euro VC or western exec who would back down after a factory visit to china. we still need to act NOW.