V J Bhatt

If it flies, I love it

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

NEET 2026 is no longer an examination. It’s such a case study in institutional failure. Almost farcical

First the paper leak. Then cancellation. Then a nationwide re-exam for 22+ lakh students. Then portal. glitches. Now reports of portal itself is being exploited, admit cards won’t download, sessions keep crashing, and NTA admits there were “initial shortcomings.”

Students have spent months preparing for one of the toughest exams in the country. Instead, they’ve been forced into a cycle of uncertainty, anxiety, technical glitches, and damage control.

This is an exam decides the future of millions.
Exam aspirants just don't need to prepare for exams but also brace up got next administrative fiasco.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

California is one of the most dynamic places on the planet.

But it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.

My take:

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

The company that once called Linux a "cancer" is now the one shipping its core tools to Windows users.

Microsoft just shipped GNU coreutils for Windows.

ls. grep. cat. cp. find. The same commands that have powered Unix and Linux systems for over 50 years are now available natively on Windows, maintained by Microsoft itself.

For context: GNU coreutils are the foundational utilities that every Linux and macOS system relies on for basic file operations, text processing, and shell scripting. They are the bedrock of Unix computing. Tens of millions of scripts, pipelines, and workflows run on them every day.

And now Microsoft is shipping and maintaining a build of them for Windows.

This is not WSL. You do not need a Linux subsystem running in the background. These tools run natively on Windows, with the exact same flags and behavior as on Linux. Your existing scripts just work.

Microsoft's goal: make moving between Linux, macOS, WSL, containers, and Windows completely frictionless. Write a script once. Run it anywhere.

The package bundles uutils/coreutils (a modern Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils), findutils, and grep into a single multi-call binary. Every command supports standard flags. Same commands, same pipelines, no translation needed.

The project is still in preview. But the direction is unmistakable.

[Pauline P. Narvas @paw_lean]

FWIW, I think the best managers are the ones who are the best ICs as well. The rest of the team is forced to level up as a result and the manager never loses touch with the tech/product/community. I never really believed in the role of just "people managers".

[Chris Wood @CWood_sdf]

i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code"

do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding

[LonelySloth @lonelysloth_sec]

Claude routinely writes code that takes hours to run, when I look at it, there's something that should be O(logN) but Claude wrote an algo that is O(N^2).

I prompt it with something like "your algo is too inefficient, improve it". After hours it comes back with an algo that is like O(N^3).

Then I look at it for like a minute, figure it out. When I explain to it the correct algo it always blows Claude's "mind".

"WOW! This is so much better."

The more I use AI the more impressed I am with my own intelligence.

Some day Claude will convince me I reached AGI.

[Pratyasha Rath @pratyasharath]

Mamata loses in Bhabanipur, with a margin of 15k.

The second loss to Subhendu Adhikari, in 2 different seats.

The cherry on the cake.
Absolute decimation of this evil regime.

[Diva Jain @DivaJain2]

Are there shocks in Beijing when POTUS visits India/Japan/Korea?
Are there shocks in Moscow when POTUS visits EU?
Why should there be shocks in Delhi?
How can a country like India progress if the commentariat has the self confidence of a high schooler on his first day in college?

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Docker solved the 'it works on my machine' problem by making it not work on anyone's machine equally.

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Kubernetes was built to solve Google-scale problems. You have 47 users.

[Ryan Brewer @ryanbrewer]

It’s because they are usually so far removed from the day to day work. They see this magic box that can produce units of work and get enamored by its potential, and the fact that they no longer have to tell someone else to do it. The issue is that most of the time they’ve also forgotten completely how to review IC work. The result is psychosis

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone.

Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

No snow will be left by next weekend at many ski resorts in California below 8,000 feet as the worst March heatwave in state history arrives. The base elevation of every ski resort will be 70°F+ for at least 4 straight days next week. Even Mammoth is forecast to hit 75°F next week. Expecting most ski resorts to close in the next 2 weeks, when snow conditions should be at their peak. Instead we have August-like heat in March.

When California's official April 1 snowpack measurement comes in, don't be surprised if it's one of the worst on record since 1950.

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

The longer I work in corporate, the more I realize… nobody actually knows what “strategy” means

[SLC Fatigue @MarinasHammer]

Los Angeles is so bad that you will get stabbed charging your car at the city library by a homeless man, and when an ambulance comes to save you, ANOTHER homeless man steals the ambulance while they’re tending to you at the scene leaving you no way to get to the hospital, and you die.

Sounds like South Africa…

[Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit]

Make the Microsoft CEO search for an email on Outlook

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

California car insurance is high because the state considers it “inequitable” to prosecute dangerous and uninsured drivers.

These drivers significantly increase the danger on roads, the cost of which must be borne by normal people who actually follow rules and have insurance.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

The stock market waiting to open on Monday

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Our intern just asked me why we don't use Kubernetes.

I said because we don't need Kubernetes.

He said everyone uses Kubernetes.

I said everyone TALKS about using Kubernetes. Most companies are running Docker containers on three servers and calling it a day.

We have 40 employees. Our entire infrastructure runs on AWS with auto-scaling groups. It works fine.

Kubernetes is designed for companies running thousands of services across hundreds of servers. We have twelve services.

But he read that Kubernetes is "industry standard" so now he thinks we're behind.

This is what happens when people learn from tech Twitter instead of actual experience.

They think every company is Google-scale and needs Google-scale solutions.

We don't need Kubernetes. We need our MySQL database to stop running out of connections because someone wrote a query that doesn't close properly.

But that's not exciting. Nobody writes blog posts about "I fixed a connection leak."

They write about "How we migrated to Kubernetes and saved millions" even though the migration cost more than they saved.

I told the intern he should learn why tools exist before learning the tools themselves.

He looked disappointed. He wanted to put Kubernetes on his resume.