Karan

Linux, Computers, Go, Backend Engineering, Jain, Learning new things every day :)

[Karan @karanssh]

Seriously. Had to do a double take. Price discovery means all participants can sell as soon as trading happens. Apparently, not the case? Wow.

[Deepak Shenoy @deepakshenoy]

How is this legal? Imagine a broker telling you that you can't sell a stock you got in an ipo in the first 15 days... Sebi will guy them down in a second in India

[stupid tech takes @stupidtechtakes]

Another case of vibe coders not knowing how anything works

Adblockers hunt the endpoint. This isn't unblocked because it's a stupid ASCII thing, it's unblocked because nobody uses your shitty ad network.

And no, a video will almost always be smaller than blocks of text with CSS

[Karan @karanssh]

Or, hear me out, just don't upgrade your phone if it works fine, or buy older phones that are still perfectly usable 😁

[Carl Pei @getpeid]

Memory is now the most expensive component in a smartphone. It's more expensive than the processor, more expensive than the display, and can account for more than 50% of the total hardware bill.

For Phone (4a), memory costs doubled between when we decided to build the device and when it launched. They've doubled again since.

I posted about this earlier this year. It's now playing out, faster than predicted.

Phone prices are going up, and they'll keep going up into next year. Since February, new phones have been launching up to $100 more expensive than their predecessors. In India, phones above ₹30K have seen price jumps of ₹7,000 or more.

The natural instinct is to buy ahead. It doesn't work that way. In a shortage, memory is allocated, not bought. You get what you're given, at the current price.

If you've been waiting to upgrade a device, the best time was yesterday. The next best time is now. This year's sale season won't have the discounts people are used to.

[Karan @karanssh]

Congrats on the launch!

[Sushant Vohra @sushantv94]

Excited to launch India’s best Air Purifier. It’s the need of the hour and we needed one like yesterday. So we designed, engineered and produced it. Almost 2 years of R&D and 100s of hours perfecting airflow.

Here is JB to the world.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Google Chrome 150 marks the end of full support for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively removing the remaining workarounds that allowed the original uBlock Origin to continue functioning in Chrome.

Starting with Chrome 150 (expected in late June 2026), Google will complete its transition from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3. This means the powerful webRequestBlocking API used by advanced extensions will no longer be available for normal Chrome extensions.

As a result, the original uBlock Origin will no longer work at full strength in Chrome. It relies on Manifest V2’s ability to inspect and block requests in real time.

Under Manifest V3, extensions must use declarativeNetRequest, which requires them to rely on predefined filtering rules instead of dynamic blocking. This improves security and performance according to Google, but it also limits what ad blockers can do, especially against complex ads and trackers on sites like YouTube.

The developer of uBlock Origin offers uBlock Origin Lite, a Manifest V3 version that still provides ad blocking but with the restrictions imposed by Chrome. Other ad blockers have also released Manifest V3 versions with similar limitations.

Users who want the full power of the original uBlock Origin can switch to Firefox, which continues to support Manifest V2 extensions, or use Brave, which includes built-in ad and tracker blocking.

Google has been gradually rolling out this change since 2024, and Chrome 150 marks the final step in that transition.

[Karan @karanssh]

Wolf ki beti wolf hi hoti hai like wtf
Is that seriously a dialogue 🤣😭

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

[Karan @karanssh]

@thekaipullai We don't even have good metro connectivity. What you are proposing is very common in countries like Japan. Fool's dream, it is 😁

[Karan @karanssh]

@victorian_memo unrelated but:

https://t.co/NRynpGfkvD

[Karan @karanssh]

i attended some motilal oswal mf call today by accident and the organizing lady kept calling the ceo sir sir

closed it instantly

there is no culture in indian companies, even non lala ones.

obviously finance is not my line of work but damn, that's pathetic

[Karan @karanssh]

@BefittingFacts Isko leke karenge kya bhai

15 rs ki baalti mei bhi scam 😭😭🙃

[Karan @karanssh]

Booked BTS concert tickets in CAT 1 via @KlookTravel
My wife is super happy 🤣
Just wondering, it felt too easy. Will it get cancelled? 🙃🙃

[Karan @karanssh]

i attended some motilal oswal mf call today by accident and the organizing lady kept calling the ceo sir sir

closed it instantly

there is no culture in indian companies, even non lala ones.

obviously finance is not my line of work but damn, that's pathetic

[Karan @karanssh]

@sumanthraman Imagine thinking of people as "resources".

Truly a WITCH moment.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back.
https://t.co/wmI82zWdcq

[Karan @karanssh]

Next level diet coke paglu spotted

(wish this was me)

[Nishant Kumar @nish_cool]

@dealztrendz Received! Isse jyada de hi nahi rahe the 😶
Give few to Delievery guy.
Thanks @dealztrendz

[Karan @karanssh]

@ankitdewan If you have a zero forex fee debit card, go to ATM, VPBank and TPBank are best as they have zero charges.

[Karan @karanssh]

@sumanthraman Candidate really dodged a bullet here. No point working at such organisations if you have the skillset.

[Karan @karanssh]

I burned like 1200 AI credits from copilot in one session. My org doesn't limit usage yet but that's more than an entire month's allowance 🫥

I can probably do this task without AI too, but that's the mandate 😂

[Karan @karanssh]

Sooo if this thing tanks it's gonna ruin the entire world? Nice

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

Here's my promised explainer. Doing my best to synthesize a lot of info here so check all my info; don't rely on it
So - the SpaceX IPO (SPCX:NASDAQ)

1/ Normally, a company with a massive valuation has to wait months to a year after its IPO before index funds are allowed to buy

[Karan @karanssh]

tale as old as time.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling.

All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Insta account takeover happening.