Amritesh Shukla

Present: IAAS, Govt of India | Past: Co-f The Mauhallewale | Alum: DCE

[Amritesh Shukla @fubar_44]

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[Yash Bhardwaj @ybhrdwj]

I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops

before you became fancy and started visiting salons. you once went to a 'saloon'. ₹20 haircuts. simple hairstyles with music that could fix your soul.

https://t.co/j3E8VfwiUU

[Yash Bhardwaj @ybhrdwj]

I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops

before you became fancy and started visiting salons. you once went to a 'saloon'. ₹20 haircuts. simple hairstyles with music that could fix your soul.

https://t.co/j3E8VfwiUU

[Konstantine Buhler @Konstantine]

Should you chase hype or ignore it? The tech industry has been debating this for decades. So at @Sequoia, we dug into 20 years of hype data.

This summer, I worked with Sequoia intern @ochonaut to measure hype over the past 2 decades. The chart below ranks the most hyped topics on Hacker News for every year since 2007. Under each year sits the most valuable company founded that year.

Here are a few observations:
1/ The top company founded in a given year is rarely related to the hype of that period. Airbnb was founded in 2008, when the top topic was Google. Uber arrived in 2009, while the conversation revolved around low-level programming. Anthropic came in 2021, while the internet was consumed by crypto. Chasing hype rarely leads to enduring outcomes. The top companies of recent years have yet to be decided.

2/ New trends announce themselves five to six years early. LLMs first cracked the top 15 in 2016 and took until 2022 to hit #1. AI coding entered at #12 in 2021 and tops the list in 2026. Crypto entered in 2011 before 2017 and 2021 peaks. “New” trends don’t appear out of nowhere, and internet subcommunities are often the first to know where the puck is headed.

3/ Long-term “hype” is a durable signal. The “Musk-Verse” has been a top 15 topic for every one of the past 14 years. Sustained attention on the internet is rare and tends to mark something real.

Next up, we want to run the same analysis with sources like X and LinkedIn. If that's of interest, give us some encouragement and we'll share the results.

[Amritesh Shukla @fubar_44]

Long way to go for us.

[Harrapa Civillisation Times @harrapasabhyata]

Amazing that instead of East Asia, AMD wanted to Make India its Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub and was investing 3 Billion$ in a Fab in India back in 2005 but it all fell apart just because,

When their Equipment came it got stuck at customs and wasn’t cleared leading to return!

[Ramakrishna kompella @jojokompella]

I was gonna be quiet but seeing this I felt like I shouldn’t. I run a bootstrapped startup and we imported two Nvidia Jetsons. It’s been held up at customs for two weeks now. Reason? They want us to give them three certificates: EPR, WPC, and BIS. The thing is, it doesn’t apply to us, none of them do. We’re importing them for prototyping and R&D. EPR is an environment certificate for waste, it’s for producers and sellers. It’s exempt for internal use. WPC similarly needs only a self declaration for devices operating in unlicensed bands if they’re for internal use. For BIS, the Nvidia Jetsons are already registered on bureau of indian standards. We’ve filed a dozen responses, we got rejected with no explanation. Just a one liner: customs has rejected your letter, please furnish EPR, WPC, BIS. Or meet the officer directly. Now i need to go meet the customs officer at the port of entry, which I would’ve if I wasn’t traveling all the time.

Building in India is an absolute pain in the ass.

[CAG of India @IndiaCAG]

At the Valediction Ceremony:
• Gold Medal (CAG of India’s Gold Medal for General Proficiency) was awarded to Mr. Amrutesh Shukla, presented by the CAG of India.

[Amritesh Shukla @fubar_44]

You walk this path, we will send you to the same heaven. No issues

[Tim @ITaimoorReal]

May his soul rest in heaven.

[Varsha Singh @varshaparmar06]

A wholesome thread on Simple Ideas can have big Impacts

Don't open if you can't handle too much excitement 🧵

1. Boston moved it’s highway underground in 2003. This was the result.

[Parul Gautam @Parul_Gautam7]

In Switzerland, 1 in 7 adults is a millionaire.

This is 5 times more than in the US.

So, I wanted to learn their wealth-building habits.

Here are 7 ways the Swiss approach money to become richer than you:

[Amritesh Shukla @fubar_44]

Amidst the unending faf that AI will take over jobs, breach privacy (which is an actual risk), this story is a perfect example of reaping benefits of tech-aided government. Kudos, KP

[Siddharth's Echelon @SiddharthKG7]

A brilliant triple-murder case solved by Kerala Police after 19 years using AI tools.

Probably the first of its kind in India. 🧵

A big lesson to police forces of India and beyond.

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[Siddharth's Echelon @SiddharthKG7]

A brilliant triple-murder case solved by Kerala Police after 19 years using AI tools.

Probably the first of its kind in India. 🧵

A big lesson to police forces of India and beyond.

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[Earth_Wanderer @earth_tracker]

The real size of Animals ~ A Thread🧵

1. The size of Crocodile 🐊

[Amritesh Shukla @fubar_44]

Mr Kelly is keeping the space alive

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Astronaut Mark Kelly once smuggled a full gorilla suit on board the International Space Station. He didn't tell anyone about it. One day, without anyone knowing, he put it on.

[Amritesh Shukla @fubar_44]

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[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

Can’t get it out of my head ❤️

[Amritesh Shukla @fubar_44]

Immaturity is finding such flashy tweets cool. India has a history, a history way different from the west, and consequences which can’t be simply equated to ‘GDP R&D %’

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Maturity is realizing that if India had spent 3-4% of GDP on R&D, not on schemes like Laadli Behna Yojana, these two would be here building the nation.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

They are ants solving a geometric problem and it is mind-blowingly colorful...

The results indicate that ants significantly improve their performance when working in groups, while human groups do not, and in fact, when our communication is restricted, performance worsens.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Some kind actions by adults can make kids happy for a long time.

[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

The terrifying beauty of wildlife ~ A thread🧵

1. Moms always behind us ❤️

[Yusuf Unjhawala 🇮🇳 @YusufDFI]

Gukesh rearranges all the pieces back on the chessboard, and then does Pranam to the board, gestures gratitude before rising to celebrate his win.

Well done mate. Congratulations.

[eye zen hour 🥶 @eyezenhour]

These kids begged Yahoo to buy their website for $1 Million in 1998.

Yahoo's CEO called it "worthless."

Today, that little site is worth $2 TRILLION dollars.

Here's why they still send Yahoo a "Thank You" card every year: 🧵