Harish achutham

hi I am a guy next door who loves to surf .My love is technolgy talk and forecasting . RT!=endorsement

[Harish achutham @har777]

@_amitbehere We? You live in the US

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@MinhazMerchant Wow 😳 surprised you turned on Israel. What's the government's view on Israel?

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@Cloudwatch199 How was he delivering pizza in OPT. That amount of effort even by racists sounds suspicious. There's gotta be more.

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@palepurshankar They'll lose east Turkestan too. I suspect unless India becomes strong enough to challenge China and cause a rebellion to break up China i can't see it happening.

[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.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Can AI Save More Energy Than It Consumes? https://t.co/8xOcUQWapd

[Harish achutham @har777]

@AsYouNotWish I think the government already did this and you're a couple of years late.

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@RMantri What about oil priced in USD which affects food and transportation cost affecting all sectors of the economy.

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@Troploen @LPI4India

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@aravind No cuz they are dumb to know the difference. They need content that will get engaged by many people.

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@jcrajan00 Dude this is the dumbest take. Indian coal is a bad grade hence Import.

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@malpani So fuck every week or even more 🤔

[Harish achutham @har777]

@malpani All safe rail coaches only in 8 years, says CAG; Modi govt had promised by 2022 https://t.co/R0vjJG6RJt

[Harish achutham @har777]

@malpani That's actually one thing this government has spent money on: replacement of unsafe coaches. Just not enough money to do it fast.

[Harish achutham @har777]

@arunpudur I dunno how you can deliver pizza while working in the US. Seems too planned to be a random act. There's gotta be more as even for a racist this is a lot of work.

[Harish achutham @har777]

@mediacrooks @narendramodi You are missing the biggest difference: China is business friendly unlike India.

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@DA_Stockman Sometime it would be really interesting to hear about what you think about the Chinese economy and if it's in a debt bubble waiting to explode.

[Harish achutham @har777]

@Schandillia Who told you fewer people means limited competition

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

Hypothetically, if Tibet were to become an independent state, it would host a massive American military base. Imagine the US controlling such a strategic piece of territory in the heart of continental Asia. Do we really need more destructive conflicts being waged on the India-China periphery and Eurasian heartland? It is unthinkable.

During the early Cold War, India — irresponsibly one might add — got caught up in a proxy role to destabilize China’s control on Tibet. How did that end up ? A major India-China war in 1962, while the U.S. washed its hands off the whole affair. Did India receive any benefits from its sacrifices to help in the U.S. containment of China? To the contrary, other than inviting permanent hostility from China and precipitating a dramatic strategic partnership between China and Pakistan, India was also cut down to size by U.S. military allies and technologically checked from developing itself. In substance, this basic US policy framework remains intact. India has found self-deceptive ways to build the U.S. relationship.

As for the India-China frontiers, this has a long history tracing back to British India and there have been several attempts to solve this dispute. Many of those instances would have actually left India in an advantageous geopolitical position but from various reasons they did not yield any positive results. Nevertheless, India’s core interests are likely to be addressed in a final settlement of the dispute.

What the past decade also shows is there is no military solution to the boundary question. After a prolonged period of tension, the LAC is a zone of stability today, particularly when compared to other escalating conflicts around the world. The policy challenge or rather opportunity for India and China is to craft a renewed policy framework that brings a level of stability and forward looking goals to guide the entire relationship. The rapidly changing world order obliges both countries to attempt a meaningful process of rapprochement and normalization. This is in India’s vital interests too.