Parvez Khusro

I like to code.
And to take photographs.

[Parvez Khusro @parvezkhusro]

Our present circumstances do not determine what we can do. It merely tells where we start. Each minute is a brand new place to start.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Parvez Khusro @parvezkhusro]

Why @instamart_it @letsblinkit @bigbasket_com @ZeptoNow does not sell pen refills?
I want to reuse my pen and just replace the refill.

[Parvez Khusro @parvezkhusro]

2027 Organic Product Manager

[Coder girl 👩‍💻 @dev_maims]

At this pace, farming might be the most future-proof career.

[Varun Guru @iamvarunguru]

This is Anagha Rajesh.

And she is crazy.

She wants to store data in bacterial DNA.

Her startup is called BioCompute.

And last year, they actually did it.

They stored data in DNA and retrieved it in their tiny lab in Bengaluru.

This is a huge moment.

But why is she even doing it?

Because DNA is the ultimate storage tool available to us.

Just 1 gm of DNA can store about 215 petabytes of data - that's like storing over 2 million movies in 4K.

On top of that - this data can last for literally 1000s of years.

Right now, they still need to figure out a way to make the reading and writing process faster and cheaper.

But if BioCompute solves this problem - we could theoretically store all the data created in the world every year in the palm of our hands.

And that would be insane.

P.S. Check out this video from @vy0mbhatia going to Anagha's lab and actually doing it.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Riya Upreti @riyaelity]

Indian Army taking over NEET exam logistics is not something to celebrate. It's reflection of how badly civilian agencies have failed.

Army picks up the NEET papers from printing centres
Bulletproof vehicles transport them to centre.

Army exists for national security, border protection, and defence. The fact that they now have to handle exam papers shows how police and other agencies have failed to control paper leak gangs.

A country should not need military-level logistics just to conduct a student exam fairly. Sad state of affairs.

[Ankit Kedia @Ankittskedia]

Once you visit small countries like Sri Lanka, Thailand, or Vietnam, or cities like Dubai for the first time and then come back to Indian streets, you realize how much you’ve been scammed by your municipality, local MLA, MP, and the whole system.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Unpopular opinion:
half of parenting is learning to regulate yourself, not your child.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun.

The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

[anul agarwal @anulagarwal]

i saw a mouse with an X-shaped battery compartment.

first thought: this is stupid - who designed it?

5 seconds later: oh.

10 seconds later: OHHH!

the X slot fits an AA or an AAA battery - whichever you've got lying around.

the part most people miss is that the shape also makes it physically impossible to load both at once.

there is no warning label, no instructions and no way to screw it up.
the geometry does the thinking for you.

japanese has a word for this.
poka-yoke = "mistake-proofing."

the product refuses your stupidity before you can offer it.

i wish more things worked like this.

[Rene🧚🫧 @sheisafairyyy]

The worst part of applying for jobs is having to write cover letters explaining my deep passion for a company I had no idea existed until I saw the job listing 2 hours ago😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

One #KeralaStory from the recent election results that communalists should note: a Muslim majority constituency, Thavanur, elected a Christian, VS Joy; a Hindu majority constituency, Kalamassery, elected a Muslim. VE Abdul Gafoor; and a Christian majority constituency, Kochi, elected a Muslim, Muhammed Shiyas. Despite some influence from the national trends in favour of identity politics, Kerala remains a model of communal harmony, a state where people see human beings first and caste or religion later

@incindia @inckerala

[Austin Kennedy @astnkennedy]

I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain.

Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me.

In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently.

None of us feel as sharp as we used to.

I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot.

P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.

[⚚Sage @belikesagee]

Life between accepted new offer letter & joining date

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

I want to see such indian content creators being celebrated, way more than we do.
What an awesome way to remember formulas: Bam Bam Bhole , Sona Chandi Tole 🤩

[Gabriel Jarrosson @GJarrosson]

Harshita Arora (@aroraharshita33) just became a General Partner at Y Combinator, making her the youngest in the accelerator’s history. She’s 25 years old, which is young enough that most VCs her age are still grinding as associates, hoping to make principal in five years if they’re lucky.

She also dropped out of school at 15, which is the kind of detail that would normally disqualify you from every traditional path to venture capital.

Between dropping out and becoming a partner... she discovered coding at 13, built a crypto portfolio tracker at 16 that Apple featured in the App Store, got it acquired, and won India’s Bal Shakti Puraskar (one of the country’s highest honors for young achievers).

Then she got an O-1 visa, moved to SF, and applied to YC with her co-founder.

Their idea got killed by Covid three weeks into the batch. They had zero background in trucking, zero background in payments, but had a dead startup with 3 months left to figure something out.

So Harshita spent weeks visiting truck stops across California, talking to drivers, watching how they paid for fuel, and realizing that the entire payments infrastructure for trucking was totally broken. Ancient systems, hidden fees, rampant fraud, still running on technology from the 1990s despite moving billions of dollars.

She built AtoB to fix it. Stripe for Trucking. A modern fuel card with transparent pricing, instant payouts, and financial tools that don’t feel like punishment.

Today AtoB is a Series C company serving over 30,000 fleets across the US, processing millions in payments daily, and building the financial infrastructure that the backbone of the economy actually deserves.

Now she’s a YC partner at 25, which is absurd when you consider that most VCs spend a decade climbing the ladder at banks or consulting firms, collecting the right credentials, and Harshita skipped the entire ladder and built a $700M company instead.

Credentials stop mattering when you build something that works, and this is one of the embodying principles of YC, so it is great to have seen her so active this last year in supporting YC batches as visiting partner, and now a GP.

Maybe as batches skew younger (like my post yesterday) partners will too...

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Walking alone through a foreign city at night and realizing how far you’ve come has to be a top 3 peak moment of all time

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

It is a miraculous moment captured by Google Street View.