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[Sid @siddocode]

Who names a fingerprint reading machine Eklavya??😭😭

[Terribly Interesting @TerriblyHQ]

Before rain and after rain

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages.

The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse.

I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee.

There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true.

But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

Every technical founder who had stopped coding 10 years ago

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

sorry I'm late, I got stuck in a local minimum

[Fernando @Franc0Fernand0]

How does your software look when it has too many layers of abstraction

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

Every senior engineer I know is currently bottlenecked by code review, correctness, and trying to wrangle the output of their team in sound architectural directions

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

"Eight billion" is the second whole number alphabetically

[////////////////////////////////////// @fuckcomputer]

claude code is fucking insane

i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO. and i just built a fully functioning web app in minutes

http://localhost:3000/

check it out

[Klaas @forgebitz]

turns out that the backbone of agentic AI coding is grep

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

By the age of 40, you should have accumulated over 1 million unread pdfs

[Kasimir @kaschronicle]

Roommate’s ex majored in philosophy and is now a train driver. I said “you’re uniquely prepared for a situation where there are five people on one track and one person on another” and he politely chuckled. I’m unappreciated in my time.

[Karolina @karolinazrs]

gm, don’t forget to count your blessings

[athreya @athreya49]

A person with stage IV cancer has 19 lakh stuck with EPF. What a pathetic and heartless system have we created? EPF is nothing but a tyranny inflicted on salaried people by babus and politicians. It deserves to be wound up frankly.

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

"Sorry I was late for dinner, I got stuck in a local minimum"

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

a collection of set theorists who are so excited that they cannot contain themselves

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

6. Fast forward to the 20th century, Luciano Ventrone, an Italian artist born in 1942, is often referred to as the "Caravaggio of the 20th century."

Notice the extraordinary level of detail in this hyper-realistic painting of a pomegranate.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Japan has been collecting data on the date of peak cherry tree blossom since 812

See if you can spot climate change...

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

EPFO is a nightmare. I've been trying for over a year to merge two accounts (past and present employer).

All other information has been same for 20 years. Yet merger denied.

All I get is cryptic dismissals of complaints - case closed.

No interest paid for two years.

Between tax, epfo and every other government service - unending KYC and unending bureaucracy. It's fatiguing.