Prakash Srivastava

@AvisharDutta 😂

Hamas dug bigger tunnels.

I see so much negativity about the future so I thought it’d be fun to showcase the positive things that could fundamentally change humanity for the better in our new video :D youtu.be/pAnGwRiQ4-4?si…

@ravihanda Grateful to Mahindra for the "Black Edition" warning signs on our roads. Staying away is better than becoming a statistic.

Thar has become a killing machine. Another death in Jaipur.

Facts below (1/5): In 2025, average earnings per hour (EPH), excluding tips, for a delivery partner on Zomato were ₹102. In 2024, this number was ₹92. That’s a ~10.9% year-on-year increase. Over a longer horizon also, EPH has shown steady growth. Most delivery partners work for a few hours and only a few days in a month. But if someone were to work for 10 hours/day, 26 days/month, this translates to ~₹26,500/month in gross earnings. After accounting for fuel and maintenance (~20%), the net earnings for the partner are ~₹21,000/month. Note: Earnings per hour are calculated on total hours logged in, including the time when the partner might be waiting to receive an order. Earnings per “busy hour” will be higher but that’s not the right metric to look at. On top of this - delivery partners earn 100% of tips given by customers. The average tip per hour in 2025 on Zomato was INR 2.6 and in 2024 was INR 2.4 per hour. Tips are transferred instantly, with zero deductions. We absorb the payment gateway processing cost ourselves. About 5% of the orders get tipped on Zomato; 2.5% on Blinkit.

Every single day on this place you find cherry picked examples that we as Indians are somehow “less” ; a dirty mean people, scrabbling in the dirt. You should know, that it is the “Big Lie”. Propagated through simplification and repetition, designed for emotional appeal over rational rejection. All to create a common enemy. Ourselves. The Indian people. That is how Goebbles “Science of the soul” worked . That is how you get a people to give up their freedoms and make their own subjugation possible. We hate our own people so much that we direct our anger at ourselves and not those who bargained for power promising a better world. We cry for those in power to use those powers to punish the mean, the poor, the uncivilised among us. To bring them into conformance. We forget that we forge our own subjugation and we sit in a prison of the mind of our own making. This is a great nation. forced to be one by geography. Fractured by historical forces and ravaged by economic currents. We emerge. Slowly from the ruins on which our forbearers lived. I ask you to look forward, where plenty lies. Where we are not embarrassed by our meanest but proud of the fact that we continue to push forward and build a life of more, despite of wheat we had to go through.

Unacademy turns 10 today I thought it's a good occasion to jot down some thoughts on this day about the wild ride that we have gone through. Ten years ago, we started with a simple mission: to empower great educators and make their content accessible to everyone. This is when the company was started. Unacademy started as a YouTube channel in 2010, 15 years ago. When I was in the 3rd year of my college. And I started making videos on computer science to help my friends. It continued as a side project with @RomanSaini joining in 2014, and us blitzscaling the YouTube channel. His UPSC videos would get millions of views that helped us in becoming the number one education channel in the country. We thought that the biggest problem then was that the smartest people are not teaching, and we need a platform where we'll get the best educators who'll create videos for learners for free. Kind of like what Twitch had done to gaming, we wanted to do that to education. Create a YouTube-like platform. And on 10th December 2015, Unacademy was launched. For the first four years, we kept adding more and more great educators to the platform, which would lead to millions of learners joining the platform. There was a point in 2018 when we were doing millions of views per month on our own platform, with Unacademy being the number one education app on the Play Store. And it was all organic growth, because we had a rule to not spend money on performance marketing. These were exciting times. Roman would personally go to the houses of potential educators to convince them to start teaching on an Unacademy. That's how some of the best educators joined the platform. From the beginning, we always thought of ourselves as a tech company operating in education. Unlike every other player in the market which behaved like an education company using tech to enable them. That's why we had features like streaks, knowledge hats, and a lot of gamification built in for educators and learners. Educators would get massively addicted to the knowledge hats which the learners would gift them on crossing certain milestones. Even till today, some of the biggest educators that we have are the ones who grew on the free platform that we had built as our first product. Then, in 2019, just one year before Covid hit, we launched a subscription product where learners could buy a subscription and get access to live classes from the best educators for their exam. The product was an instant hit. From zero revenue in January 2019 to $1.8M revenue in September 2019, we were one of the fastest growing companies to get to almost $20M Bookings ARR in nine months. The next one year was crazy because our revenue kept scaling and especially post-Covid, we were growing even faster. Almost 1M Paid Subscribers were now enrolled on Unacademy. There were three back-to-back funding rounds. From being a $100M valuation at the start of 2019, we were at a $1.5B valuation by September 2020. We had spent less than $50M to reach a valuation of $1.5B. But soon the distractions began. In the next few months, we did another round, ended up raising another $440 million. Totalling the fund raise to more than $700 million in just less than two years. We thought that what we are seeing in COVID would sustain forever and that's the new reality. And started burning a lot of money to acquire a lot of market share, without realizing that education business is slightly different from a normal tech business, and here your first transaction is basically your LTV. We had become the number one test prep brand in terms of recall. We were the number one test prep player in terms of online business, which had scaled to almost $100M in revenue.

@KrauseFx I was facing the same issue. Use this - github.com/bootandy/dust

Oh how I love macOS storage management

When I was just a year old, my dad got kidnapped and we had to pay the ransom. We kids had to drop our Srivastava surname and change it to Kumar/Kumari. After multiple dacoities, my family left all our land to relatives and came to Delhi when I was just 5 years old.

I grew up in Bihar in the 90s, right in the heart of Lalu's Jungle Raj. Saw it firsthand - it's not a myth and lalu is no 'pichdon ka maseeha', as the intellectual media wants you to believe. My father, a govt servant, battled chronic renal failure. To withdraw his own GPF he had to pay a bribe. To get medical committee approval for expenses? Bribe. Postings? Pay up or rot in hellholes. A sadakchap party wroker (gunda) could have come and insulted/ assualted civil servants anytime Mom lived in fear for me and my sister. Kidnappings, lawlessness was rampant. Lalu's defeat isn't politics. It's justice! This shameless dynasty dreams of power again? They belong behind bars. For 100 years. Minimum. Bihar rose from the ashes through perseverance. Never again.

Warren Buffett is 95. He is completely retiring and Greg Abel would be the new head for Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett would no longer write annual letters to shareholders or participate in AGMs ( Annual General Meetings). Yesterday he wrote a farewell letter. I've reproduced a section of it in the screenshot. Two gems: Kindness is costless but also priceless. Keep in mind the cleaning leady is as much a human being as the Chairman.

Procol automates procurement for >10% NIFTY50 companies in India

Want an easy, beginner-friendly explanation of @karpathy 's NanoChat and how LLMs work end-to-end? github.com/prakash09/nano… It includes file-level tags and explanations, so you can get started quickly.

@volklub Totally agree with the other points, but software engineers really get paid well. Even entry-level coders often start with salaries higher than those of people with several years of experience in other fields.

The core reason behind poor service quality for almost everything in India is that the person ‘actually doing’ the work is the least paid. ✅ The mechanic servicing your car ✅ The labourer building roads and bridges ✅ The developer writing the real code ✅ City cleaners working on contract basis Between them and the customer, there are too many layers taking a bigger cut, often more than they deserve. When the hands-on worker isn’t valued or paid fairly, quality will suffer.

This is not expected from @zomato

@vijayanands The output image’s resolution is based on the input image’s resolution. Try replicate.com/bytedance/seed… It will work for your case.

For all the hoopla about Image gen tools replacing photoshop for good, I asked nano banana to use a base image and generate a vertical poster with that content, using generative to fill. It kept giving me 4:3 images and finally 16:9. after 20 odd tries, gave up and fired up PS.

@thsottiaux Add sentry polling for issues and auto fix.

What would you like us to fix in codex? What would be the biggest productivity unlock for you and your team?

Claude code feels like living with Doraemon. Me every 5 mins: “Doraemon mujhe bacha lo 😭” — and Claude’s like: “Here’s a shiny new gadget”

@CShorten30 @DSPyOSS how can I try it? is it on some unmerged branch?

GEPA is a SUPER exciting advancement for @DSPyOSS and a new generation of optimization algorithms re-imagined with LLMs! 🧩🚀 Starting with the title of the paper, the authors find that Reflective Prompt Evolution can outperform Reinforcement Learning!! 🤯 Using LLMs to write and refine prompts (for another LLM to complete a task) is outperforming (!!) highly targeted gradient descent updates using cutting-edge RL algorithms! ⚖️ GEPA makes three key innovations on how exactly we use LLMs to propose prompts for LLMs -- (1) Pareto Optimal Candidate Selection, (2) Reflective Prompt Mutation, and (3) System-Aware Merging for optimizing Compound AI Systems. 🧠🧠 The authors further present how GEPA can be used for training at test-time, one of the most exciting directions AI is evolving in! 🚀 Here is my review of the paper! I hope you find it useful! 🎙️

@lateinteraction @CShorten30 @DSPyOSS how can I try it? is it on some unmerged branch?

@CShorten30 @DSPyOSS No way! Another @CShorten30 "Explained" gift to the community. These have always been uniquely great, thank you Connor!

Grok-4, with only 16,000 tokens per minute, is a waste of time for coding. I keep getting this message every few seconds: "Your team's rate limit is — Tokens per Minute (actual/limit): 86562/16000." @grok