Surith

code , coffee , movies
Engineering @ Sei AI (YC W22)

[Surith @lgsurith]

Got my hands on @OpenAI DALL.E
Created these beautiful images with just a string of words

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking.

The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports.

This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp.

Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users.

Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/0DyFIXJueI

[Surith @lgsurith]

Claude just became a teensy bit dumber ?

[TVK Vijay @TVKVijayHQ]

பன்னிரண்டாம் வகுப்புப் பொதுத் தேர்வில், விடாமுயற்சியால் வெற்றிக் கனியைச் சுவைத்த என் அன்புத் தம்பி, தங்கைகளுக்கு நெஞ்சார்ந்த வாழ்த்துகள்!

இந்த வெற்றி, உங்கள் கடின உழைப்பிற்குக் கிடைத்த அங்கீகாரம். உயர்கல்வி எனும் அடுத்த கட்டத்தை நோக்கி, நம்பிக்கையுடன் அடி எடுத்து வையுங்கள். அதே நேரத்தில், வெற்றி பெறத் தவறியவர்கள் மனம் தளர வேண்டாம். மீண்டும் முயற்சி செய்யுங்கள். வெற்றியின் அருகில்தான் இருக்கிறோம் என்பதை நினைவில் கொள்ளுங்கள்.

உங்கள் அனைவரின் எதிர்காலமும் பிரகாசிக்கட்டும்!

நல்லதே நடக்கும்!
வெற்றி நிச்சயம்!

[Dr Mouth Matters @GanKanchi]

Confessions and realities

42M, 55LPA

I am a 42-year-old man with a senior job in IT. I have a house in Chennai, a supportive wife, and two children. On paper, everything about my life looks perfect. I have achieved all the things society says a man should achieve.

In my twenties, life felt different. I had friends to spend time with. We would hang out at Marina Beach and Besant Nagar beach, watch movies at Rohini, Udayam, and Kasi theatres, and ride around Mount Road on my RX100.

In my thirties, I had colleagues to talk with over tea breaks. We would discuss apartments, onsite trips, and share random stories about life and work.

But now, in my forties, life has turned into a quiet routine. My phone rarely rings for anything personal. Most calls are about office work, bank alerts, or someone from home asking me to pick up milk on the way back.

The loneliness of a man in his forties is unusual. I am not physically alone, but I often feel like a machine.

When I enter my home, I am simply “Appa.” I am the person who pays school fees, fixes the Wi-Fi, and handles repairs. My wife is busy with her work and the kids. My children are teenagers now, living in their own worlds and their own rooms. They love me, but they mostly see me as the person who provides comfort and stability. They no longer see me as an individual.

At the office, I am the senior person. I am expected to have all the answers. I cannot tell my team that I feel tired. I cannot tell my boss that I sometimes struggle to keep up with new technologies. I must appear confident and strong, even when I quietly worry about the future.

Sometimes I drive home slowly from work just to spend a few extra minutes in the car. I listen to songs from my college days.
For those fifteen minutes, I am not a manager or a father. I am simply myself again.

I realize that I have not had a real conversation about my feelings with anyone in years.

My old friends now exist mostly as names on WhatsApp. We send “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations” messages, but rarely talk. When we meet at weddings, our conversations revolve around our children’s grades or the cars we drive. We never talk about what we actually feel.

The hardest part is that I cannot even complain. If I tell my family that I feel lonely, they look confused and say, “But we are all here with you.”
They do not understand that a person can be surrounded by people and still feel like they are on a desert island.

Society teaches men that if they provide money and security, they have succeeded in life.
But no one teaches us how to deal with the silence that comes with it.

I have built a beautiful life for everyone around me, but sometimes it feels like there is no space left for me inside it.

And maybe… this is what life in your forties feels like.

[Surith @lgsurith]

Tested across 30+ PRs : each review cost < $0.001 using Gemini Flash.

🔗 https://t.co/vcgw5ACsAU
🔗 https://t.co/xdUuwhnwCB

Would love feedback from people who review code daily !

[Surith @lgsurith]

i built an open-source AI code review bot that actually reads your codebase before reviewing.
When you open a PR, Verix doesn’t just look at the diff. It follows the import chain, explores related files, and leaves inline suggestions like a senior engineer would.
#buildinpublic

[Surith @lgsurith]

What’s under the hood:
→ Agentic AI that decides what context it needs
→ Dependency graph (Postgres) mapping imports across the repo
→ Inline suggestions with one-click apply on PRs
→ Works with Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, or local models via Ollama
→ BYOK + fully self-hostable

[K A L E O @CryptoKaleo]

So Google TurboQuant is basically Pied Piper and just hit a Weismann Score of 5.2

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

@AbhiCodes15 Not everything needs to make money. Some folks just do it for the love of it.

[Malte Ubl @cramforce]

https://t.co/UKlVUi3rsq

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

> walk around your city catching pokémon
> game asks you to scan a fountain. sure why not
> 30 billion scans later
> niantic owns a more detailed map than any government
> sells game for $3.5B
> spins off a spatial AI company
> your pokéwalk is now classified infrastructure
> delivery robots now navigate using your walks
> you were never the player. you were the product.

[Swapna Kumar Panda @swapnakpanda]

If you are a software engineer who wants to upskill in system design, bookmark these 13 sites:

[Surith @lgsurith]

@j_yunth onwards and upwards

[Ashutosh Maheshwari @asmah2107]

For people who keep asking what to build in AI Engineering

> Build your own Reasoner (Chain of Thought implementation)

> Build your own Agent loop (ReAct pattern)

> Build your own Inference Server (in C++/Rust)

> Build your own Transformer from scratch (Attention is all you need)

> Build your own Vector Database (HNSW index)

> Build your own RAG pipeline

> Build your own Flash Attention kernel (CUDA)

> Build your own Quantization library (Int8/FP4 implementation)

> Build your own Mixture of Experts (MoE) routing layer

> Build your own Distributed training loop (FSDP/Tensor Parallelism)

> Build your own KV Cache paging system (like vLLM)

> Build your own Speculative Decoding system

> Build your own State Space Model (Mamba implementation)

> Build your own RLHF pipeline (PPO implementation)

> Build your own Small Language Model (SLM)

> Build your own Matrix Multiplication kernel

> Build your own LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) trainer

> Build your own Code interpreter sandbox

> Build your own DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) loss function

> Build your own Graph RAG system

> Build your own Model merger (Model Soups/Spherical Linear Interpolation)

> Build your own Interpretability tool (SAE - Sparse Autoencoders)

> Build your own Synthetic data generator

> Build your own Function Calling router

> Build your own Structured Output parser (Context Free Grammars)

> Build your own Multi-modal projector (CLIP implementation)

> Build your own LLM Eval harness

> Build your own Guardrails system (Input/Output filtering)

> Build your own Prompt caching mechanism

> Build your own Tokenizer (BPE implementation)

> Build your own Autograd engine (like Micrograd)

> Build your own Diffusion model (UNet + Scheduler)

> Build your own Vision Transformer (ViT)

> Build your own Whisper-style ASR model

> Build your own Text-to-Speech pipeline

> Build your own Semantic Router

> Build your own Knowledge Graph builder

> Build your own Data curation pipeline (MinHash/Deduplication)

> Build your own AI Gateway (Load balancing/Failover)

> Build your own Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) library

> Build your own Text-to-SQL engine

> Build your own Recommendation system (Two-tower architecture)

> Build your own Embedding model

> Build your own Logit Processor

> Build your own Softmax kernel optimization

> Build your own Adversarial attack generator

> Build your own Audio Spectrogram transformer

> Build your own Neural Architecture Search

> Build your own Model Distillation pipeline

> Build your own Feature Store

> Build your own Database driver (for Vectors)

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Wild.
The guy who literally coined vibe coding says it's already outdated.
Says he can't keep up.
Bro, if Karpathy is struggling the rest of us are cooked!

[Mau Baron @maubaron]

life after you install claude code for the first time

[CG @cgtwts]

pov: it’s Valentine’s Day and you’re locked in building with Claude

[nizzy @nizzyabi]

when the wife asks what i'm getting her for valentines day but i just spent $788 on claude code

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Love seeing how Spotify is shipping with Claude Code.

Their best developers haven't written a single line of code since December, they fix bugs from their phones, and they shipped 50+ features from Slack during morning commutes

https://t.co/rYTVJBHE0s