Harshal Bhatia

i build things with insights, ai, data and code | @yale | prev @clarisights @gojektech @dailyhuntapp

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Love this re-imagining of America’s founding using Docs, Gmail, Calendar and more from @GoogleWorkspace. Really puts the history in version history :)

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

1. We should make it easier for companies to flip back to India.
2. We should make it easier for investors to invest in Indian companies
3. We should make it easier for investors to sell their stake
4. We should never ever ever impose retrospective tax on any company. Even RMG 🤮
5. We should make it easier for Indian companies to be acquired
6. We should make it easier for Indian companies to acquire other Indian companies
7. Our regulators and govt agencies should stop treating entrepreneurs as criminals and expecting "haazri". If you've found criminality, build a case and prosecute. Courts should fine the state for cases that they lose because of weak evidence. The process should not be the punishment.

Founders build businesses in this country despite the state, unless they're crony capitalists.

Every founder has a choice: build in this country or outside. Dubai and Singapore want founders to move and build there.

We shouldn't punish the ones that chose to build in our country.

I'm not saying this about Zepto or any company in particular. Just observations from conversations with founders.

[Vidit Gujrathi @viditchess]

Chess engines tell you the best move.

But grandmasters are human, they don’t always play it.

So I built "Kibitz": a human move predictor for chess broadcasts. I trained this model on my Nvidia RTX 5080.

Then I made it run as a business by itself.

A channel buys the overlay, Hermes onboards them, charges via @stripe test mode, runs the broadcast, narrates with @NVIDIAAI Nemotron, tracks inference cost, and books its own P&L.

I build. Hermes operates.

This is my demo and entry for the @NousResearch × @NVIDIAAI × @stripe Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon.

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Today's Telegram ban is proof of why an indigenous social media or messaging app can never grow in India.

If @durov was Indian, he would be in jail along with his entire team and his entire infrastructure seized because a question paper was supposedly leaked on Telegram. It would have taken a few months to get bail. Line of FIRs stretching to Kanyakumari. Court cases dragging on for a decade or more. TV channels would have gone to town with all kinds of consipracies of how Soros is involved.

We have vaguely written laws, open to the worst interpretation and bureaucratic overreactions. It's not a stable foundation for anyone to build on.

The same applies to now AI. Anyday someone will be offended in this country by anything an indigenous AI generates in text or images and the founders can find themselves in jail and fighting court cases.

[Harshal Bhatia @justharshal]

Android 17 should be a minor release. Literally nothing new. Even the non AI pause point feature they announced is not in the release. Disappointed.

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

@fusion89211 Indian people are some of the smartest, kindest people I know. The Indian government on the other hand...

[Harshal Bhatia @justharshal]

Android 17 should be a minor release. Literally nothing new. Even the non AI pause point feature they announced is not in the release. Disappointed.

[Tarun Raju @btarunr]

This could have been a 256-bit AES encrypted ZIP file.

[mas.to / @kingslyj]

Mango People:

If ISPs are going to block Telegram in India...

Why does Telegram need to disable message editing?

If ISPs block Telegram and Telegram disables editing

Why should app stores delist Telegram?

Why the 3 orders Reel Mantri @AshwiniVaishnaw?

Reel Mantri:

[Harshal Bhatia @justharshal]

@thsottiaux something is very wrong with the codex limits on team plan. it used to be so good earlier and then suddenly two messages and it's over. sooo annoying. can you check?

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In the early 1700s, a tiny, cash-strapped theological school called the Collegiate School of Connecticut was on the verge of financial collapse. It desperately needed money to construct its very 1st permanent building in New Haven.

The school's trustees reached out to a wealthy London merchant named Elihu Yale. Yale had spent nearly 30 yrs working for the East India Company at Fort St. George in Madras (now Chennai) looting India & eventually rising to become the Governor-President of the settlement.

While in India, Elihu Yale amassed an immense personal fortune through private trading: specifically in Golconda diamonds, high-grade textiles & spices & by participating in the Indian Ocean slave trade. He was eventually ousted from his post by the East India Company for rampant illegal profiteering & corruption.

In 1718, responding to the school's plea for help, Elihu Yale sent a massive cargo shipment from London to Boston. The shipment did not contain cash. It contained:

- 9 large bundles of exotic Indian textiles (including fine muslins, calicos & silks from Madras).
- 417 books.
- A portrait of King George I.

The school sold the Indian textiles & goods in Boston for the staggering sum of £800, which at the time, was enough money to completely fund the construction of their brand-new wooden college building. In pure gratitude for this South Asian windfall, the trustees officially renamed the entire institution Yale College.

Yale University would literally not exist w/o India. Its very name, its 1st major building & its foundational survival were directly paid for by wealth extracted from India.

[jss @jsensarma]

i just can't unsee this now ..

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

@jain_harshit You motherfuckers wouldn’t listen to me so I had to get claude involved

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

If you believe that Indian elections are free and fair, please watch this. Do your own research if you have doubts.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

ADHD people being mentally and physically exhausted but still staying up because they didn't get enough "me time" after surviving the whole day.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

CJP’s backup Instagram account also taken down.

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Harshal Bhatia @justharshal]

@iamdavidhill gpt 5.7! early access or hype building?

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

On our way to I/O 2026. See you at 10am PT tomorrow!

[peachi 𖹭 @hudcinema]

always trust dev patel to disappear and come back w a film about india that could eventually be banned in india (endearing)