Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽

Cofounder/CEO @HiHello 👋 Cofounder @CartaInc 🥧 Chief Firestarter @K9Ventures 🦮 OG Pre-Seed Investor @lyft @twilio @auth0 @lucidchart @everlaw @forethought_ai

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

@RobReffkin Congratulations Robert! I love that you recognize the value of human connection in driving the business forward for all of @Compass’ agents and brokers.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

Tesla already proved this and @compoundeyeinc already turned it into a turnkey solution.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Chinese automaker XPENG’s CEO said LiDAR is no longer necessary for the automotive industry.

XPENG has adopted a camera-vision approach with its new VLA 2.0 system.

They also stated that cameras provide richer data per second than LiDAR, especially for end-to-end models, while noting that LiDAR can struggle in rain or fog and has power/safety limitations for long-range detection.

Sounds like somebody is listening to Tesla.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

@simonw They should both add it. The best way to learn how to use AI effectively is to watch others do it and this is an amazing feature for that.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

@Steve_Yegge I have this in my personal preferences and haven’t noticed a big difference between 4.7 and 4.8:
“Please don’t patronize me. Give me the facts straight and opinions bluntly.”

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

@anuroopk4u @pmarca Since the 1970s, many people who wanted housing to be more affordable supported rules that made it harder to build. The result was less housing, more scarcity, and higher prices. We made housing unaffordable in the name of affordability.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

Every rule was written by a human.

So every rule is really a guideline.

Question everything. You can’t build anything great by coloring inside lines someone else drew. The whole game is knowing which rule to break, and when.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

New in Claude Code (research preview): dynamic workflows.

Claude writes an orchestration script on the fly, then spins up a large fleet of coordinated subagents in parallel to take on your most complex tasks.

Use the word "workflow" in a prompt to get started.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybercab driving itself out of the GigaTexas factory

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.

Available today at the same price.

[cat @_catwu]

Excited to share our most powerful new Claude Code feature: dynamic workflows!

Mention "workflow" in a prompt and Claude will dynamically create an orchestration plan that it strictly follows, allowing you to confidently trust that every stage happens in the right order even across 100s of agents.

[MachinePix @MachinePix]

Thread locker applicator.

[Deedy @deedydas]

A 19-year old broke into India's largest high school examination system of 2M+ students a year, the CBSE, and was able to view and CHANGE any students' marks.

He responsibly wrote to the team 3 months ago, and it took them 3 days to fix only one of the issues. Today, they took the entire website down.

This is a absolute embarrassment. The futures and lives of millions rests in the hands of the utterly incompetent. There is also no mass media reporting on the matter.

This topic is close to me because not only is this the education system I went through, but 12 years ago and silently for 5yrs since, I'd written about and reported a much less severe vulnerability allowing me to scrape these results too. More than a decade later, not much has changed.

This 19yo, Nisarga Adhikary, wrote a great piece outlining each vulnerability he reverse engineered:
- the master password leak
- the client-side 2fac / OTP validation workaround
- tokenless access to the entire internal app (dashboard, evaluator details, etc) setting dummy browser values
- changing any password without knowing the old one
- an IDOR vuln allowing you to act as any user and edit exam marks

For those interested in a beautiful study in security breaches, this is a must read (link below).

If there's any light at the end of the tunnel, it's that a 19yo who never went to college can do things 99% of top engineers couldn't figure out.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

@niccruzpatane And the Model S even looks better.

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

Insanely clever marketing.

It’s a water stencil so what they’re doing is power washing the sidewalk and creating the words with the dirt that remains.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

@X @nikitabier gives me a small taste of the difficulty of what you’re doing to make it all better on @X. Appreciate what you do even more. 🙇🏽‍♂️

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

The objective should be to make highly skilled immigration easier not harder. This is going in the wrong direction.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply.

This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes.

The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

Post something about immigration on @X and then you have to remind yourself that: “Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.” And also “Don’t feed the trolls.”

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

Both @X and @LinkedIn make me anxious.

The anxiety they cause cuts both ways.

On one hand I feel like I am so far behind on things and I gotta crank.

On the other hand I feel like I am so behind on things and I will never catch up!

Swinging between the two states makes me 😵‍💫

[Trevor Blackwell @tlbtlbtlb]

People may not know that the processing time for green card applications are months to years. So someone could come on a O-1 or H-1B, work for 5 years, become critical in their role, apply, and then have to abandon their job. Incredibly harmful to US industry.

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

@ashajadeja What amazing pictures! Thank you for sharing them.