Nirakh Tyagi

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[Nirakh Tyagi @NirakhTyagi]

Google is preparing a new AI model with stronger coding skills as it seeks to close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic https://t.co/83tMVM0tLT

[word @saranshabd]

I built Bazaar: an AI focus group for video feedback.

Upload a video, describe the audience you care about, ask your questions, and get reactions from a panel of AI personas.

Basically: “what would this land like with my target audience?” before paying for a real focus group.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A guy named nbatman on Reddit accidentally built the most useful website on the internet.

It's called FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah).

This is the website Google delisted from search for DMCA violations, Reddit shadow-banned for promoting piracy, the Motion Picture Association flagged as a top piracy threat, and the RIAA pressured hosting providers to drop. It is still online. It is still updated every month.

Here's how it works.

FMHY is the index. The wiki itself hosts nothing. It just tells you where every free thing on the internet actually lives, organized into 14 categories with safety ratings on every single link.

→ Movies and shows in 4K from 50+ streaming sites
→ Music at Spotify and Apple Music quality
→ Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, JetBrains
→ Every paid course on every major learning platform
→ 100 million books and papers through Anna's Archive
→ Free alternatives to every paid AI tool
→ A SafeGuard browser extension that flags unsafe sites in real time

It started as a single Google Doc maintained by one Reddit moderator in 2018. Google killed it with a DMCA takedown in 2023.

The community rebuilt the wiki on its own domain, mirrored it to GitHub and IPFS, and now runs it across 12 backup domains simultaneously.

There is no company. No CEO. No central server. Six anonymous volunteers maintain the entire thing in their spare time. Donations through Ko-fi pay for the hosting. Nobody profits.

Hollywood can't shut this down. Spotify can't shut this down. Adobe can't shut this down.

The entire subscription economy is held together by you not knowing this wiki exists.

https://t.co/AAr2rLlqgy

[word @saranshabd]

personal notes from trying to understand the internals of diffusion models, vision-language-action models, flow matching, and related robotics stuff.

https://t.co/1zK5hPcGZ1

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

Bottom view of a cat that has fallen asleep on a glass table.

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

Cities like Delhi, Singapore, Tokyo, and São Paulo are among the most luminous urban centers seen from the International Space Station at night.

[Taylor Trogdon @TTrogdon]

This is unequivocally the most astounding capture of the atmosphere that I have ever seen.

If you are a younger meteorologist, watch this then attempt to understand it through study. All hurricanes have a center, not all hurricanes attain cyclostrophic balance and produce one of the rarest phenomena on planet earth.

[Nirakh Tyagi @NirakhTyagi]

@WMO @grok
Can you explain how did they measure it?

[roZit @rozziitt]

As a Software Engineer with 0 years of experience, you should know:
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQLite
MongoDB
DynamoDB
Cassandra
LevelDB
RabbitMQ
Kafka
Redis
Docker
K8S
Nix
Linux
C/C++
Java
Python
Bash
JS
HTML
CSS
JIRA
GCP
Azure
AWS
Git
Selenium
Microservices
Jenkins

[Omar Abdullah @OmarAbdullah]

This is no ceasefire. The air defence units in the middle of Srinagar just opened up.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is what it looks like to be in polar orbit around Earth, going around the world every ~90 minutes

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

He’s genuinely stupid. And people need to understand, there’s no plan. There is no plan for tomorrow. Everyday in the White House, they run around and cater to however he feels. Most know he’s unbelievably incompetent. 0 idea what’s going on. No understanding of complex issues.

[Mudrika @MudrikaKavdia]

Finding a life partner today is harder than ever. My mom recently joined a WhatsApp group full of marriage biodata. And it felt less like matchmaking, more like scrolling through a people catalog.
Tall guy, rich guy, spiritual girl, modern-but-traditional girl, everyone is boxed into categories. And it’s not just about love anymore. You need a good family, stable income, matching values, perfect habits, and even similar food choices. It’s exhausting.
That’s why… if you already have someone who understands you, respects you, shares your vibe, don’t lose them while searching for “something better.” Not everyone gets a second chance at something real. And by 2035, 60% of people won’t even be married.
So if you’ve found love that feels right, hold on to it. Even if it's imperfect. Because real is rare.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Male Anteater Takes His Wife And Baby For A Stroll

[Joseph Blaze @theJosephBlaze]

Oh my... thumbnail designers are COOKED 😭💀

[ak @Chikutheking01]

Same joke saalo se Internet may india may available hai par nhi bc allahbadia aur samay raina ko bali ka bakra banana hai.
#indiasgotlatent

[Radhika Gupta @iRadhikaGupta]

Choices, Hard Work and Happiness

I debated whether to write this post, because the risk of being misquoted on this issue in this clickbait world is high. But I am trying to share what is a nuanced point of view on the issue of work-life balance.

1. Hard work is important and I was taught and believe that it is the only way to rise. In the competitive workplace, I also believe the person who works harder will rise faster. Great careers, achievements, and companies are the results of a lot of hard work.

2. Hard work is a choice. Ambition is a choice. And choices have consequences. Not everybody has to aspire to be a CEO or founder with a mega exit. I know many people who have chosen the path of a less demanding career within their field because time off from work matters to them. No judgments.

3. Now let's talk hours. I worked 100 hours a week for four consecutive months on my 1st project during my 1st job.18 hours a day, with one day off (and not Sunday—I got Monday off because I had to be at a client site on Sunday).

What was it like? 90% of the time, I was miserable. I went to office bathrooms and cried, ate chocolate cake from room service at 2 a.m., and was hospitalized twice. Most importantly, I may have been at work for 100 hours, but I was not productive in those. The same story is true for many of my graduating classmates who joined similar roles in banking, consulting, etc.

Hard work is not equal to hours worked. Many of those hours in entry-level careers were pure facetime. Heck, I know a friend who created a screensaver with an Excel model to convince their boss they were in the office! No wonder many of us didn't last in those roles very long. Hard work needs to be sustainable for us to be able to do it for a long period of time, which is when compounding kicks in.

4. Hours is not equal to productivity. Many developed nations work 8–4 but ensure those hours are productive. Come in on time, bring your best to work, have only necessary meetings, and use technology to be effective. Recently, I was telling my investment team, “Let’s find a way to use AI to make research more efficient—our talent cannot spend hours on grunt work.”

5. Family and mental health cannot be absent from this. Otherwise, we will build a world of anxiety and breakdowns, early heart attacks, unhappy marriages, and absentee parenting. I could work those hours I did as a young, single girl because I had no responsibilities. Today, between my career, managing my home, caring for parents, and giving time to my husband and son, I am consumed. And this is despite privilege: a hands-on husband, support staff, parents who chip in, and lots of resources. I commute 1.5 hours a day, but many commute 3–4 hours in our cities. They have homes to run, chores to do, dabbas to pack, kids to drop to school and more.

6. As organizations, we have to think about the culture we create. Of course, founders/CEOs work harder—they have economic incentives to do so. But I have found in our own org that when you create a culture where people find purpose in what they do, they will go above and beyond for you, even in difficult personal circumstances. Forcing anything is hard, let alone enforcing a certain number of hours. Inspiring people to give their best is easier.

7. All of us have to contribute to making India a developed nation. But as we do so, we should also strive to be a happy nation—enjoying the fruits of that development: the joy of building, of giving our families better lives, and of experiencing what the previous generation may not have had. Happiness, inclusive growth, and development go hand in hand.

Finally, I meet many young people, especially women, who are questioning whether they should have a family because of the fear that family and career cannot coexist. This debate scares them even more. Having a happy relationship with work and life is possible while contributing to the dream of Viksit Bharat. Let’s tell our kids that.

[SUDHIR @seriousfunnyguy]

This is a story of a famous footwear brand who built a world class factory on Delhi-Punjab GT road in late 1980s

One day, then CM of Haryana was travelling and as luck would have it, his car broke down walking distance from the footwear factory. His PA went to the factory and requested the owner permission for CM to rest until help arrives. 🧵