Nabin🇳🇵

Software engineer | 4 YOE | Backend & LLMs

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

@zoshi They suffered during the floods because riverbanks are not meant to be encroached upon. Don’t you think moving to the designated shelters prepared specifically for them would help reduce that suffering?

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

@zoshi While I admit the situation should be handled more sensitively, I don’t get your point.

Are you suggesting that a person should be able to carry out illegal activities as long as they’re poor?

FYI, the government has prepared shelters for them, they’re the ones avoiding them.

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

@dipenbhat557 @ycombinator Best wishes!

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

@realpurus @medsane You can’t reduce it to mere “AI slop”, YK. They claim the video can be generated in under 8 seconds, which is pretty solid. I’m eagerly waiting for their product. They seem like really hardworking guys.

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

Good read

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Niraj Bhusal @nirajbhusal]

Nepal Removes FDI Ceiling: No Investment Limit, Zero Minimum for IT, Auto-Approval in 7 Days

The Government of Nepal has officially removed the NPR 500 million (रु 50 करोड) ceiling on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) through a new Nepal Gazette notification (Vol. 75, Part 5, No. 64, Falgun 4, 2082), expanding the Automatic Route (स्वचालित मार्ग) for FDI under the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, 2075.

Key highlights:
- No maximum investment limit: Any amount of FDI in listed sectors can now receive fast-track automatic approval.
- No investment cap for all Information Technology-based industries.

7 Priority Categories:
- IT & Digital (Tech Parks, Software Development, BPO/KPO, Data Centers, Cloud, Digital Mapping, Web Services)
- Energy (solar, wind, hydro, biogas, biomass & related equipment)
- Agriculture & Forest-based processing (fruits/veg, tea/coffee, herbs, cold storage, furniture, etc.)
- Infrastructure (conference centers, cargo complexes, waste treatment, film city, etc.)
- Tourism & Hospitality (hotels, resorts, adventure & wellness tourism)
- Services (hospitals, diagnostic centers, construction equipment rental, logistics, advertising, etc.)
- Manufacturing & Production (food processing, textiles, electronics, plastics, cement, steel, pharmaceuticals, etc.)

How the Automatic Route works:
Investors submit an online application with company details, investment amount, sector info, and required documents. If all criteria are met, the system issues an approval certificate via email within 7 working days. After approval, investors verify foreign currency sources with Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB).

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

@culerboii Daami

[Supabase @supabase]

"you're a great engineer, so we're promoting you to a PM"

[Jeffrey Wang @jeffzwang]

Vibe coding productivity boosts are not evenly distributed. My estimates for Exa are:
- Full stack product engineering: 1.5x-2.5x
- Frontend, internal tooling: 5x-10x
- Hard, low levels systems programming: 1.2x-1.5x
- Reliability and infrastructure: 0.5x (mistakes here cost a lot lol)

Overall, the cost of different types of engineering is now different, which rejiggers cost-benefit analyses of different types of work and everyone has to adjust accordingly.

A crazy example is that once when we were managing an incident, one of our engineers spent the first 5 minutes of the incident vibe coding a full custom incident dashboard using Streamlit. This is the kind of thing you'd never think to do before AI, but is now the right thing to do.

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

Somewhere in Nepal

[The Himālaya Dispatch @himdispatch]

Somewhere in Nepal. Photographed by Toni Hagen, c. 1950s.

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

Hello tech twitter please spread this. They killed innocent children in order to suppress their voices. They killed democracy and murdered the humanitarian rights.
#Nepal #SaveHumans #GenZProtest #HumanRights #tyranny #corruption

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At least 14 people have been killed by security forces after thousands of young people in Nepal took to the streets in Gen Z protests against corruption and a gov't ban on social media platforms.

Here's what you need to know https://t.co/fIWIWYzyLh

[sunny @thePiggsBoson]

It’s shameful to see international media framing Nepal’s Gen Z protest as merely against the social media ban. That’s not what it is about. The protest was—and still is—against a corrupt system, unchecked government privileges, and years of exploitation. Reducing it to just the ban is dishonest and insulting to the movement.

@BBCWorld @nytimes @guardian @dwnews @washingtonpost @CNN @Reuters

[Shrijan Dahal @ShrijanDah33726]

@nabin486

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

@amnesty @amnestynepal @UNHumanRights @CNN

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

They are reducing this protest to a mere ‘social media ban’ which isn’t true. We protested against their corruption. They tried to silence it and took more than 20 young lives just because everyone raised their voices. This isn’t democracy, this is tyranny

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

At least 10 dead after youth protests against Nepal social media ban https://t.co/kMlBHrOHnM

[Tridev Gurung @tridevgurung]

21 CONFIRMED DEATHS

I urge international media to cover today’s events in Nepal. A peaceful, youth-led protest against corruption turned violent when police fired live bullets, killing 21. Government is trying to distort truth by framing protest as only about a social media ban.

[Tridev Gurung @tridevgurung]

URGENT SHARE NEEDED 🚨

• International media must cover Nepal
• Today’s peaceful protest was against CORRUPTION, not social media ban
• Reports of a possible full internet shutdown
• At least 21 killed, 600+ injured

Global coverage is vital so Nepali voices are not silenced

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

He predicted:

• AI vision breakthrough (1989)
• Neural network comeback (2006)
• Self-supervised learning revolution (2016)

Now Yann LeCun's 5 new predictions just convinced Zuckerberg to redirect Meta's entire $20B AI budget.

Here's what you should know (& how to prepare):

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

This makes sense ngl

[wabi @wabi]

The age of personal software has begun

[Nabin🇳🇵 @nabin486]

@thePiggsBoson Saw some good things about this one. Haven’t personally tried but my friend has one.

https://t.co/pidj2EGZNm