Anand

Curious Human Being. Experimenting and learning. #Linux user since 1995. Tech blog @

[Anand @skeptichacker]

A quick peek into Python 3.15 - https://t.co/pFBIZbfTrQ

[Anand @skeptichacker]

Design Patterns in the #Python standard library - https://t.co/mwB9X4Z9Kt #designpatterns

[Aamir @AamirAR_]

Shoutout the staff on @easyJet flight 8746 into Gatwick last night. I asked if there was any way I could find out the City result during the flight and they came through. CHAMPIONS 🏆❤️

[Anand @skeptichacker]

Give humanity a few more years with #AI and every invention before the last 10 years will start looking like magic. People will forget how it is to invent and assemble things.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Russian non-computer space navigation system.

It just uses ~500 gears.

[Anand @skeptichacker]

@bhalloinfraguy I have been here and my response has always been first to check free memory, then to check disk space and then to see CPU consuming resources - netstat is usually the last. So C, B, A, D.

[Anand @skeptichacker]

@EvanLuthra Adopting AI fully to replace humans automatically equates to a human basic pay -- which they will then spend on services that will further use AI to deliver them. We are all fucked.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP..

Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap"..

They proved something terrifying..

Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power..

Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse..

But here's the trap..

No company can afford to stop..

If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway..

So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives..

It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically..

The numbers are already stacking up..

Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that "within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion"..

Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI..

Goldman Sachs deployed an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team..

Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases..

80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation..

And here's what should scare policymakers..

The researchers tested every proposed solution..

Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate..

Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human..

Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it..

Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing..

Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker..

The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand..

The paper's conclusion is devastating..

This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone..

And no market force can break the cycle..

The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.

[Anand @skeptichacker]

@raghavwadhwa The vision of the "Rocket Boy" turned Atom Boy - Dr. Homi J Bhaba 🙏🏻, followed by some nifty engineering and research.

[Raghav Wadhwa @raghavwadhwa]

India has 2% of the world's uranium. But 25% of the world's thorium.

For 70 years, that was a weakness. Today it became the strategy.

Homi Bhabha designed a 3 stage nuclear relay race in 1954 specifically because we had no uranium.

Stage 1 burns uranium to produce plutonium.
Stage 2 uses plutonium to breed MORE fuel than it burns (this just went live at Kalpakkam).
Stage 3 uses the bred fuel to finally unlock thorium.

846,000 tonnes of thorium sitting in the beaches of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Odisha. Enough energy for 700+ years at current consumption.

Every other nuclear power built their program around uranium because they had it. India built the only program in the world designed from day one to NOT need it.

A completely different game.

[Aimar Haddadi @AdvicebyAimar]

i can spot a grifter from miles away.

so i digged into the code to figure out if this is legit or not.

guess i was right.

ben is a crypto founder who runs some weird bitcoin lending platform, i was pretty sure he knows absolutely nothing about ai and memory so i tracked down the repo myself since i was curious.

his website says he likes to build ai powered products and train local ai models? sure man, 80% of your github repo's are bitcoin related stuff. only one ai related project came up you forked in 2024.

mempalace has 10k github stars, more than 1k forks but only.. 7 commits ?

apparently the best memory layer to date?

no git author history, no account connected to whoever wrote the code of this codebase.

it doesn't add up..

the account who pushed the original repo, named: aya-thekeeper, under aya-thekeeper/mempal got deleted right after the repo got published.

you paid a random guy named lu to build this shit out for you.

( "Written by Lu (DTL) — March 24, 2026.
For: Ben." ) - benchmark md file.

lu wrote the code. lu wrote the benchmarks. lu is nowhere in the readme. or mentioned in the github history?

the git history then got squashed to one commit and published under milla jovovich? seriously? a actress?

you say she is a great friend of yours, she has been building this project with you. she does this at night.

yet she has.. 7 commits and only 2 active days in her entire github history?

you paid an actress and a random guy to promote a product you know absolutely nothing about.

[Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢 @JeremyNguyenPhD]

Milla Jovovich (actress from The Fifth Element) created a world-beating Claude memory system with @bensig?!

- 100% on LongMemEval — first perfect score ever recorded.

Free and 100% open source. Github link in the quoted post from Ben.

I'm keen to hear how it works for you.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Today is the last day of the Income Tax Act 1961.

A 65 year old law dies tonight.

From tomorrow your salary slip changes.

Your basic salary must be minimum 50 percent of your CTC. Companies kept it artificially low for years to reduce your PF. That ends tonight.

Your PF goes up. Take home may drop slightly. Retirement corpus grows significantly.

If you resign your company must settle full and final within 2 working days. Not 30 to 90 days like before.

Form 16 is replaced by Form 130.

Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad now get 50 percent HRA exemption. Same as Mumbai and Delhi.

Tax slabs unchanged. Surveillance gets tighter.

Tomorrow I will break down exactly what this means for your pocket.

Save this. Share with every salaried man you know.

[🔻TheRealBadGoy🔻 @ThatBadGoy]

@WhiteHouse @LarryBoorstein This you?

[Anand @skeptichacker]

@WhiteHouse You mean - "I only know how to fuck things up, now you deal with my mess".

[Anand @skeptichacker]

@sidhant The only woman who cried for him.

[mrinank @MrinankSharma]

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned.

Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Werner Heisenberg’s PhD defense in 1923 at the University of Munich was nearly a disaster. His written thesis had focused mostly on hydrodynamics, leaving him weak on experimental knowledge. During the oral exam, he stumbled badly on practical questions, like how a storage battery worked or the resolving power of a microscope. His examiners, especially Wilhelm Wien, were appalled at his lack of lab skills. Arnold Sommerfeld, his mentor, had to intervene, arguing that while Heisenberg was hopeless with equipment, his theoretical talent was extraordinary. In the end, he scraped through — barely passing — in what became one of the most awkward defenses in physics history.

[Anand @skeptichacker]

@PhysInHistory So his PhD defence was uncertain. At least he knew where he stood.

[Anand @skeptichacker]

@brankopetric00 3 months and AWS ? - Invest in a cheaper VPS like Linode or Hetzner - and do option C but minus the EC2. Once you get funding, start giving your money to Amazon.

[Wes McKinney @wesmckinn]

I've used Gmail for 20 years. Almost 2M emails, 150K attachments. Rather than let Google hold my data hostage, I built msgvault: local-first email archive with a terminal UI and MCP server, powered by DuckDB. Open source, single Go binary.

https://t.co/cOVbEbGl4e