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1May 29, '25Pen and Paper is back. Dune makes so much sense now.131×3.7M106k4.8k4.2k
2Oct 11, '24How’s this company so far ahead from every one else ?? Like forget about ford and GM, it looked like byd was getting close and now this.121×3.5M12k5571.2k
3Apr 21, '23IIT Kanpur has a fucking Airport inside its campus. Does yours ? No, right ? Then shut the fuck up please and sit the fuck down.68.1×1.9M2.7k132161
4Jan 23, '25deepseek is a side project.56.7×1.6M20k1.6k3.5k
5Mar 21, '24Lest we forget that one founder of Reddit53.7×1.5M9.1k7281.2k
6Apr 16, '24They usually get only 100mm of rain per year but this year alone Emirates has had 10x more than that due to cloud seeding. If this works they only need 8-10 such events per year to46.6×1.3M3.9k419770
7Aug 16, '24computer science is not science - it was a fake field for people who find electrical engineering or maths too hard 💀 💀44.5×1.3M5.9k4841.9k
8Jun 18, '23Researchers at MIT wrote a paper claiming GPT4 scored 100% on MIT's EECS curriculum. Turns out they were just prompting GPT4 again & again till it gave the right answer. That's not41.3×1.2M3k481383
9Apr 27, '24China makes all the stuff. Who buys it ? Americans. What do they pay in ? USD. What does China get ? USD What do Americans get ? Stuff. All the stuff. Ok till here. Now what does C37.4×1.1M3.2k4311.2k
10Oct 15For 25 years, Salesforce, SAP and enterprise software were built around one assumption: humans operate the software. We’re changing that. Introducing ERP•AI and Proto: business sof36.9×1.1M1.1k318512
11Sep 17, '24Amazon was built on Oracle. They stopped using it after aws but still it lasted until 2019. Oracle DB is still the defacto database for Fortune 500. Besides DB, Oracle also owns Pe32.7×935k11k1k1.4k
12Jun 17, '23This was done by Aaron Swartz who was the true founder of Reddit and who had to commit suicide cause he tried to provide free access to educational journals. Absolutely no mainstre32.3×924k4.2k860571
13Dec 21, '24India is at $2500 gdp/capita. I first went to China around ~2009 when it was at ~3500 gdp/capita and I can assure you it was in bad shape then. I went to almost all the cities I co32×914k3k321459
14Feb 22, '24Starting 2010 China began dumping massive amounts of steel for a throwaway price. It bankrupted an entire generation of Indian SMEs. India still hasn’t recovered from that. This is28.1×802k4.3k8591.1k
15Mar 18, '23Left: Google Founders Right: Their mentor - Professor Rajeev Motwani Professor Motwani (IITK CS) mentored Larry & Sergey grad students at Stanford & helped form Google (+co26.9×769k7.6k1.3k628
16Dec 7, '23India is a poor country Meanwhile India:24.7×705k8.7k494251
17Dec 29, '24View post on X23.3×667k20k2.1k2.4k
18May 20, '25Indias worst rated airline is not that bad but Indian passengers are unforgiving. IndiGo has been ranked among the worst airlines globally in the AirHelp Score report 2024, landing23×657k6k537622
19Mar 1, '24Dune 2 Paul Atreides: Breathes Stilgar:22.8×651k12k1.3k812
20Dec 3, '23ai will displace humans meanwhile indians:22.8×651k13k1.5k552
21Jun 12, '23This is Nitin Saxena. He studied CS in IIT & worked on the unsolved P / NP problem which won him a Godel Prize. He became a world renowned scholar & a fellow at University of Bonn.21.5×615k5.1k574227
22Jun 2, '24Talking to a big manufacturer in Kanpur. Absolute dearth of talent - even when thousands are looking for a job. They need a job - just that they can’t do any job. People can’t even19.8×566k2.9k455420
23Feb 1, '25India just passed a low tax regime. No tax upto ~5x per capita income. For comparison US 5x gdp/capita is at $400k. Brave move. Needs applause.18.3×523k8.4k682444
24Mar 16, '23This is Raj Kumar Gupta He's the founder of Raj Comics You won't find his picture if you search just his name That's how forgotten he is He is father of India's superheroes - like 18.3×522k6.4k1.3k303
25Oct 15, '23This is Elgin Mills in Kanpur. Setup in 1864 this was one of the biggest Textile Mill globally. Along with Lal Imli and other it employed thousands upon thousands. It could have be17.8×509k3.3k963325
26Dec 29, '23I hate these trucks and so should you. The world has moved on to proper multi axle containers for 50 years and we are hauling these pre world war 2 era junk cause Tata and Leyland 17×485k4.8k381198
27Jul 11, '24bro was literally my roommate in IIT not making this up16.5×471k5k85382
28Apr 24, '23Why does India not have these cities like York in England ? See, March 1739 Nadir Shah ransacked Delhi. He carried so much wealth to Tehran that he stopped taxing his country. Then15.6×447k4.3k1.1k346
29Aug 3, '24my politics is whatever that gets this made 50 yrs ahead of everyone else15.6×447k4.2k288309
30Jan 22, '24the last native civilisation standing greeks, romans, aztecs, mayans...are gone. all demolished. their temples destroyed. their gods forgotten. their monuments turned to rubble. th15.6×446k13k2.5k762
31Sep 1, '25brahmins are getting paid for oil ???14.9×426k10k600293
32Jun 22, '23I could never have imagined, not even in my wildest dreams, that there would be chants of Modi Modi in the US Senate - this is unreal (Is he speaking without a teleprompter??)14.9×425k4.6k729351
33Feb 15, '23This is Sudhanshu Mani He is our hero He took his last posting at ICF and built Train 18 (Vande Bharat) from scratch. He was rewarded with a vigilance enquiry & retired in 18. 14.5×416k3k640144
34Feb 1, '24When I needed some help years ago, @vijayshekhar showed up in person. He has regularly helped founders as much as he can - many of you know that. Whatever issue PayTM has with RBI 14.5×416k3.1k320130
35Dec 26, '242024 International Math Olympiad Team USA - Jordan Lefkowitz, 17 - Krishna Pothapragada, 18 - Jessica Wan, 18 - Alexander Wang, 16 - Qiao (Tiger) Zhang, 16 - Linus Tang, 18 China i13.9×396k4.3k392546
36Aug 23, '23Was in flight. Pilot comes online. ‘Chandrayan has Landed’ Entire flight starts clapping. I don’t know of any other country that celebrates tech like India does. That’s a win.13.8×396k12k1.2k107
37Oct 21, '23Modern Indian Railway Station13.8×393k5.5k432231
38Apr 13, '25You know why Silicon Valley has this insane advantage ? It respects its 20 yr olds. Someone bet on a 20 yr old called Steve Jobs and we got Apple. Same with Google. Same with Musk.13.6×389k4.5k277618
39Jan 8, '24There’s a reason why west has complete cultural dominance. There’s a reason why people love to work for American companies. The culture of mutual respect can’t be taught. It has to13.4×383k2.9k479428
40Sep 24, '24View post on X13.1×373k6.6k209204
41Mar 20, '25"Why don’t they just move to cities for work?" China restricts free movement. A permit is needed to live in Shanghai/other booming cities. So yes, China is booming but only for tho11.5×330k2.5k238408
42Apr 9, '25What India should do: announce a $100bn manufacturing mega plan. Zero tax on manufacturing. One-stop clearance. Land on lease. Training sops. Institutional tie-ups. Funding match f10.7×305k6k804526
43Jul 27, '25So apparently China has several top models now. I can understand India’s manufacturing challenges. I can understand the infra gaps. What I can’t understand is how Indian IT giants 10.3×293k3.1k433768
44Jan 25, '25>chinese company >operates out of mainland >+86 number support >google is effectively banned in mainland >sign in with google10.0×284k3.5k108411
45Jun 6, '25What was once occasional anti-Indian hate is now routine, triggering daily pushback from naive Indian poasters that only makes it worse. Two platforms lead this: 1: TikTok follows 9.7×276k3.8k626796
46Dec 3, '24View post on X9.4×267k4.4k281403
47Jul 26, '24Don’t start any business. Get into trading. Understand the supply chain. Understand margins. Understand the market. Spend 2-3 yrs just doing that. Then think about substituting tha9.3×267k2.9k3712.1k
48Dec 28, '24indians are the unsung heroes of the ww2. they died for britain defending key supply chain chokepoints in asia and africa. 2.5 million Indian soldiers served alongside the british.9.3×265k6.9k1.1k578
49Feb 14, '23It was 1996. This guy shows up on TV every day. Says India will be the next IT power Lobbies US. Announces India is ready We didn't even have roads/electricity, let alone computers9.2×262k3.9k673252
50Aug 7, '24Hindus are getting genocided in Bangladesh - but nobody will make this a major issue. Just a minor inconvenience. No hindu will fund protests in American cities. No rallies will be8.9×255k5.8k1.4k292
51Sep 20, '25My advice to the Indian administration: Focus on Indian tech stack now - search engine, OS, social networks - like China and put that tech talent to use. GCCs will still run just l8.6×247k5.9k1.2k569
52Oct 22, '25Wait till India hits 10k GDP per capita (10–12 yrs) with 15 tn nominal GDP (China is at 18 tn) China is very subdued in its projection - monoculture, communist, top-down India will8.3×238k3.5k277463
53Jan 24, '24Meet Arpan Sethi from Indore. CS student. Flew in to blore to meet me. Wants to build erickshaws. Asked him to move to shezhen for 3 months. He’s on his way now. Whether he can or 8.2×235k2.9k124158
54Apr 27, '25Shaun tweeted this on the 22nd. He's a Sequoia VC. How many Indian VCs have tweeted? None. You want global respect ? This is how you start: Grow some balls. Take a stance. Signal y7.9×226k4k656222
55Jan 28, '25deepseek this deepseek that none of this would have been possible without sam altman literally pushing through with chatgpt to show us what’s possible google was just gatekeeping a7.9×226k5.3k308301
56May 9, '23Netherlands has a population of 17mn which is smaller than NCR, has no border disputes and their defence is outsourced to NATO ie US. It’s a Mickey Mouse Disneyland where the main 7.8×224k3.7k52864
57Sep 14, '25big things are happening in the diaspora7.8×222k3.2k140688
58Jul 1, '23Indians were taken as slaves to Mauritius and Seychelles and they ended up running those places pretty neatly. Mauritius is at the edge of Africa. Port Louis is pretty much first w7.7×220k3.6k430150
59Jun 8, '23View post on X7.7×220k3k24697
60Mar 2, '24Sir, this is just the pre wedding celebration.7.4×211k5.2k21490
61Dec 21, '24Had a Vietnamese close friend in 2012. She hated Vietnam and said it would collapse soon. Many friends in China said the same about China. In fact the oft repeated quote was ‘China7.4×210k3.3k448757
62Apr 29, '25>mechanical engineer from MIT >world's largest single-location iron forge >defense and aerospace literally india's tony stark but >bureaucracy final boss (impossible ch6.9×198k5.6k707545
63Oct 6, '24All the health in the world is pointless if you don’t have the money to enjoy it.6.8×194k5.3k358178
64Mar 23, '25India needs long-overdue, bottom-up police and judicial reforms.6.7×192k3.7k50388
65Sep 20, '24Indian Cement: $4 for 50kg bag Chinese Cement: $40 per Ton Why is Indian Cement so much more expensive ?6.4×184k3k367401
66Apr 10, '24Chitransh in Sanskrit means Artist. Adam Ijaz, the CEO of your company - his last name means honor which you seem to be lacking Dbrand.6.4×182k3.6k364114
67Mar 26, '25Brian nooo6.2×178k4.4k120272
68May 14, '25>be qatar >size of a backyard >only 300k citizens >3mn immigrants >gifts POTUS a private jet highest per capita flex in the world.6.2×178k2.8k147201
69Apr 15, '25Things you’ll notice when you first visit a top American uni: - No boundary walls. Harvard, MIT, and Berkeley blend into the city. When I first saw MIT in 2009, I thought - this is6.1×176k3.1k180337
70Sep 28, '24In 2008, Pakistani terrorists arriving via cheap boats held Mumbai hostage for a week and killed hundreds by going door to door. Indians responded with a strong dossier. Meanwhile,6.1×174k3.6k519263
71Apr 28, '23idk man. all I know is that we didn’t have these for 5 decades and now we have this pic. a decade ago if you saw this pic there’s no way you’d place this in delhi.6.1×174k2.9k36059
72Jan 12, '25there's nothing more harmful to a team than a high iq low energy person high iq high energy: very good but rare low iq low energy : harmless, also useless low iq high energy: make 5.9×169k3.3k191964
73Oct 24, '23Every other scripture: God will do this, God will do that… The Bhagwad Geeta: **You** will have to get it done, son.5.8×165k3.3k484325
74Apr 12, '25Mumbai Metro barrier vs NYC barrier5.6×161k4.4k213141
75Nov 13, '24View post on X5.6×160k3.3k263518
76Jul 19, '24The biggest IT outage happened because somebody pushed a random update. Trump was saved cause he moved his head. Two planes missed each other by 100ft. The older you get you realis5.3×152k5.2k537280
77Mar 29, '25The collapsed building was Chinese-built, but I haven’t seen a plethora of typical critical viral posts yet. Understandably, the algorithm favors China Now, had it been Indian…lmao5.2×149k4.4k616150
78Aug 28, '25I’m on the board of a committee leading the tech modernization of one of the largest institutes. Meetings are very professional and start on the dot. Every stakeholder attends. Upd5.1×145k3.9k317463
79Jun 14, '25Anyway as I said.5.0×144k2.8k195260
80Apr 26, '24Some people want us to stop building. Let’s do the opposite. 🇮🇳/acc4.9×140k2.7k224114
81Jul 4, '24Spiritual awakening can’t happen without material awakening. You can’t expect the poor who have never tasted luxury to discard luxury - something that they’ve never had. Buddha was4.8×139k3.5k476429
82Jun 26, '25India’s tragedy is having leftist leaders who believe industrialization won’t help its poorest most populous states. So even if you go town to town like Gandhi did, trying to spark4.6×132k2.8k367418
83Apr 22, '23This is Saiesh Veera. He was shot dead in a gas station in Columbus Ohio. He was 10 days away from graduation. His name hasn’t made the mainstream news. But a murdered criminal kil4.5×129k3.5k1.3k52
84Jan 22, '24Bois, the day is done. Now take this energy and go build. Building things is how you connect with god. Your god. Go build.4.5×129k4.3k400131
85Oct 26, '25View post on X4.5×129k4k220184
86Jan 13, '25$1 trillion trade surplus!4.4×126k2.7k146163
87Dec 26, '24View post on X4.4×125k3.4k120141
88May 30, '25haters will say this is AI4.4×124k3.4k3701.1k
89Apr 1, '24Why does India need roads ? Horses are fine without roads. They don’t need oil so it will also save on foreign exchange. There’s lots of grassland where horses can feed. India is m4.3×123k3.4k453114
90Aug 11, '24Roti. This is called Roti.4.2×121k6k315105
91Oct 13, '24few know, fewer understand and even fewer can actually do it. the future of our civilisation depends on these very ver few people.4.1×117k3.8k337194
92Jul 14, '24GenZ was 1 inch away from their 5th back-to-back "once in a lifetime" event.4.0×113k3.2k15989
93Oct 13, '24Clarke’s third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic3.9×111k3.9k309295
94Mar 12, '25you're unhappy because you're indexed on success. index on actions. index on your agency to do things. then do those things. leave the rest to God. feel the load lift. and be free.3.4×97k3.2k2841.1k
95Nov 24, '23View post on X3.4×96k2.6k385142
96Jun 14, '25bro milked the tragedy to great views2.9×82k4k330107
97Jun 21, '25this is very sad and worrying.2.9×82k4.9k959181
98Nov 27, '24US: You’re fired India: You may or may not get your pension China: 💀 💀2.7×78k2.7k18090
99Apr 22, '25It's a sad day. 27 Hindus were lined up and butchered. If Hindus don’t unite and speak up, this will reoccur. I know most Hindus in the West don’t care but maybe they should.2.6×74k2.9k28261
100Aug 27, '24took a hour long train ride from nyc to see this massive beautiful temple happy kṛṣṇa janamasthami everyone🙏2.5×71k3.4k11286
101Jun 1, '24Only 8.2% grew ? Meaning 91.8% did not grow ? Very disappointing2.2×62k2.7k21060

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