Hamza Ghufran

currently building -

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@joshelman AI’s disruption to all technical work is entirely a function of the speed that non-coders begin adopting.

Post Astra/Opus, it is already sufficiently capable; it’s now only a user experience and learning curve barrier.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The most important technology problem of the next 5 years:

Creating a broadly accepted standard for agents to identify themselves to service providers, so that providers can adjust the way they interface with clients (as compared to human-based traffic).

In the interim (i.e., for the next 6 months), there will be a cat-and-mouse game that agents will play -- to circumvent detection and maintain their product's utility during this growth phase.

However, this will only be a stopgap and it will not be the terminal state of the world.

[Hadi Khan @hadikhantech]

I recently understood the concept of ‘upstream’ and ‘downstream’. First heard it from Jensen Huang mention it at Dhwarkesh’s podcast.

Really helpful to distinguish between them and manage my tasks. It is important not to let them bleed into each other. Most engineers spend more time on their downstream - which is not optimal.

Upstream = demand, or who you sell to.
Downstream = fulfilment, what you sell.

In the context of a coffee shop, upstream is customers and downstream is supply chain.

In the context of Nvidia, upstream is datacenters, AI companies and downstream is developers, development ecosystem (languages, frameworks), supply chain (TSMC).

Some industries are ‘upstream heavy’, some are ‘downstream heavy’. I am not 100% sure but I believe Nvidia is downstream heavy.

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For a startup/ consultant selling to businesses (non-tech), upstream may be on LinkedIn, and downstream on X.

All these are downstream (for me):

- Education (technical)
- Community work
- Research
- Twitter/ news
- Podcasts
- Actual engineering, client deliverables

Upstream:

- Outreach
- Content (aimed at ideal clients)
- Discover calls
- LinkedIn use

I generally time block my downstream work first thing in the morning, first half of the day, and upstream work (calls, socials) in the second half of the day.

Which I believe, is common with other professionals.

Lately, I have been removing all tech connections from LinkedIn, and heavily flagging content that is not related to upstream (legal, private equity, finance).

[I believe it pollutes the LinkedIn algo]

Once you understand this concept, it really makes a lot of decisions easier and helps clear some confusions.

Most tech people sell to other tech people, so it is natural for the downstream and upstream to appear to converge. But both still require different way of dealings.

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Some other concepts that I am very fond of and keep relating to:

- High ticket low volume Vs. low ticket high volume.

- Head and tail in a power law distribution.

- Goodhart’s law | Campbell’s law.

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To operate AI to the max - humans must develop a deep understanding of some concepts and beyond. And that understanding needs to be polished and checked over and over.

{rough notes mostly for personal ref}

[DHH @dhh]

The p(doom) discussion gets all the headlines, but the p(abundance) scenery is far more like and deserves much more engagement.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

https://t.co/md25hcoBb4

[Zaid @zaidmukaddam]

I made a Mac app for fx, the coding agent from Vercel.

fx-ui runs libfx inside the app and draws every pixel on the GPU through GPUIX. Bring a Grok or Codex subscription, or a Vercel AI Gateway key.

It's open source: https://t.co/gTrZemooFD

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

I’m working on something massive.

Here's a quick teaser:

[Choudhary Abdullah @seeforcat]

Someone asked me recently, "What are you planning to do next in life?" I said, "I am trying to be more sincere."

He probably expected a product, a launch, or a bigger purpose. A year ago, I would have given him one. I did not have this clarity then. I do now.

We’re trying to bring the same idea to our little community, https://t.co/j4fE5KdhWD, by keeping it small, keeping it intentional, and keeping it purposeful. Because small sincere things often grow bigger than big things chased for their own sake.

[ᴛᴏʟʟʏ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) @tolly_xyz]

ox-alpha

[Keskin @craftian_keskin]

Nazgul

Lord of the Rings

[Palak @Palakonweb]

Made with @ChatGPT

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

For the first time ever, clean energy capacity in India has taken the top spot. That’s a 12x expansion over 25 years.

Everyone’s talking about the environmental side of this shift, & that is big, of course, but I think the real story here is grid sovereignty.

Scaling renewables at this pace moves energy away from being a volatile, imported commodity & turns it into a domestic advantage.

When 1.4 billion people pivot their base energy capacity toward clean power, it completely redefines energy security.

Huge milestone for India’s power landscape, & an even bigger blueprint for the rest of the world.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we’ve ever recorded. Studying the world’s oldest trees suggests we could be due one of these gargantuan events soon https://t.co/6z9H1nwonr

[Mitt @MittCPA]

somewhere between the mountains and the sea

[DHH @dhh]

For anyone with endless ideas, this agent age is nirvana as those ideas are met with endless execution, endless exploration. I've never had has much fun working with computers as I do right now. What a time to be alive.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Reall

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.

New Delhi, 24 July 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.

The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.

Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.

BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.

The order is illegal on at least four grounds.

1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.

2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.

3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.

4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.

The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.

IFF demands that the Government of India:

1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.

We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The faster we reach better intelligence, the faster we reach abundance, and the faster we stop having to fight over anything at all.

[Bilim Atlası @bilimatlas]

Fotoğrafçı Rachel Moore, bir balinanın gözünün şimdiye kadar kaydedilmiş en etkileyici yakın plan görüntülerinden birini yakaladı.

Bu nadir kare, balinaların göz yapısını ve etkileyici detaylarını gözler önüne seriyor.