Pratham Hegde

@RyanOlunix print flyers, stand outside a wework at 8am, hand them to people who look like they haven't slept. Offer free coffee if they sign up on the spot. scrappy founders will try anything and they'll tell their scrappy founder friends.

You have $0 for marketing How are you getting your first 100 users?

here's what i've built: - security research on KV cache compression attack surfaces in LLMs, found targeted eigenbasis perturbations outperform random noise in 90%+ of tested configurations - created a benchmark for 12 LLM-generated web apps across 5 attack classes with a custom CAF metric - Carried out pentest on a several YC startup API's, confirmed critical cross-tenant cache isolation vuln 10/10 times - ZK proof attestation layer for MCP tool execution in agent pipelines - pwn.college Yellow + Orange belt, Green in progress github: github.com/PratGit1606 | prathamhegde.com

We're hiring at @KleePay. We're building payment infrastructure for AI agents and looking for AI-native builders across engineering, product, growth, operations, and internships. You don't need 10 years of experience, but you do need to move fast, learn fast, and figure things out without being told exactly what to do. We care more about proof of work than credentials. Competitive base salary + meaningful equity. DM me your GitHub, X account, portfolio, side project, or anything you've built.

@mikeydsoftware I'm pretty sure the dashes just mark different fields like time, version, node. so its actual structure not decoration. could be wrong tho

Software engineers: Do you know why UUIDs have so many damn dashes? 🤔 Instead of: 550e8400e29b41d4a716446655440000 you get: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

@realvincenttodd @elonmusk Can’t believe he stole that spot from you

wow, wow, congrats @elonmusk! I couldn't be #1 forever

Can't wait to spend $50 in inference costs generating "Hello, World!" and burn the planet Jokes aside, I'm curious to try it. The safety logic is reasonable; but the real challenge is seeing if false positives are low enough for real security work.

@5mukx High false positives are just IDS alerts all over again lol

So this model is waste for cybersecurity for now.

Can confirm. Joined expecting a typical internship and accidentally ended up working on actual problems with a founder who actually gives a fuck. Would not recommend if your goal is doing nothing all summer.

@sumitdotme #1 use of claude till date if you ask me

You're not gonna believe this What we can do with Claude -

lowkey getting into building a linux kernel from scratch to see breaks and what doesnt why do i like to torture myself 😭

@sumitdotme Really cool! Love the gradients

i rebranded my social and portfolio :) i uses to create a brand for others site but today i thought I needed a rebrand more than my users So here is what i did for myself -

@oscargaske @TejasGupta67820 He’s just like that

@TejasGupta67820 why do you have an anime girl in your pfp be honest

your coding agent wastes half its tokens just looking for code. ask it "where does login happen" → it greps, gets 200 matches, opens 15 files to find 1 function. i built a free tool to kill that loop. local, semantic, instant. link in comments

@isaidmeow_ The 3% conversion problem isn’t just value, it’s category fragmentation. Every niche has 5 near-identical tools competing for the same user. Nobody wins loyalty when switching costs are zero and differentiation is surface-level.

1.8 billion people use AI rn Only 3% paying... huge value problem We haven't found the thing ppl love enough  To open their wallets for  I don’t think the missing piece is work related either It's deeply personal Smth people return to without thinking Something that feels like theirs...

@isaidmeow_ Ong they re such a pain in the ass to get right

@nullpratham Race conditions are evil fr lol

deep in race condition challenges rn TOCTOU bugs look simple on paper until you're debugging why your swap hits the wrong window 1000 times in a row security is timing. timing is everything.

@sid74078 Love the idea! I think what might also help is if the user had more independence to choose their roadmap as well

I vibe-coded a basic learning platform. The content is still a work in progress, but I'd love some feedback on the UI and overall look. Please check it out! sldev.netlify.app

@realvincenttodd @toddagriscience Nothing but facts here

asking Chat the questions that matter

@realvincenttodd Yessir!!

@nullpratham this is what you look at all day?

@oscargaske pray for me 🙏

@nullpratham dear god

@oscargaske neither 😭 x86-64 assembly and Python, TOCTOU at the syscall level directly against the kernel

@nullpratham is this c++ or rust? i've only dealt with TOCTOU in the latter 😛

@oscargaske Very cool stuff

how I 3x output with my own spec driven development workflow TLDR: Flowchart to ChatGPT to local Claude (2x if necessary)