Nilu Kulasingham

@conorsen More Educated =/= more affluent. Like sure a PhD in Philosophy puts you at the very elite in educational attainment but that doesn't necessarily translate to awesome job opportunities in the workplace.

20 years ago I wouldn’t have thought that an electorate generally getting more educated and wealthy would lead to a less professional, less restrained, and more anxious politics. On some level I still don’t really get it.

@DrewSav Most liberals in the west don't like to hear this but Modi is very competent and also by far the most pro-Western government India has ever had. Hindutva is an appeal sure, but the biggest issue is that the opposition just sucks.

What is Modi's appeal?

Excited to announce the launch of Phemeral.dev! If you’re a Python developer and have been frustrated by the tedium of managing your deployment and hosting, Phemeral was made for you. Phemeral is a hosting platform made specifically for Python web services. It makes it super easy to deploy, host, and scale Python services. It removes the complexity of packaging your own code and managing your own compute. With Phemeral, you can write your Python services with your preferred framework (e.g. FastAPI, Flask, Django, Litestar) and package manager (e.g. uv, Pip, Poetry), no need for a special configuration file or otherwise. Connect your GitHub repo to Phemeral, and it will automatically host your app on Phemeral’s managed cloud. Continuous deployment comes out of the box: when you push to your repo, Phemeral automatically redeploys the new code. A couple projects that people have hosted on Phemeral: thesnapbridal.com, a platform that connects couples with photographers garden-cms.itsnisu.xyz, a flexible, dynamic, and modern python based cms If you have a Python application you’d like to host, deploy it with Phemeral!

@JacobWolf :( sorry to hear this, my condolences.

Really tough weekend. After coming off a huge high this week at work on Thursday with the release of the podcast project I led, my brother in law died suddenly while commuting home from work that evening. Headed back to Austin now but devastated for my extended family.

@siri0s_ @signulll Singapore is great but it is not at scale. It works as a city state under constant supervision but it is basically comparable to SF

america is one of very few countries that has even tried to build a multiethnic democracy at scale, & the fact that it has a visible, loud, ongoing discourse about racism is actually evidence of relatively low tolerance for it compared to countries where racial hierarchy is just... ambient & unremarked upon. japan (lol very obvious now), korea, much of europe, india's caste system, han chauvinism in china, ethnic dynamics across the gulf states.. most of these societies don't even have the vocabulary for the conversation america tortures itself over daily. america is quite literally is one of the least if not the least racist countries on the planet, & it's not even close.

This little illuminated dragon is very happy about Pretext. He's too busy having fun to care about people's "hot takes" on how "it's not that special." (This little dragon also only works on desktop right now but maybe I'll do mobile later) illustrated-manuscript.vercel.app

@Trace_Cohen zapier

What’s the most famous startup and/or product that came from a hackathon?

@hthieblot Not sure if it works if I can reply :D

Only incredible founders can reply to this tweet

@levelsio this is a pretty cool feature

Okay let's see who can reply to this

@t_blom Pretty sure @gustrigos's runtm does this already - I had a fun time breaking it

Pretty soon, I think we’ll see software shipping with Claude Code SDK embedded inside. Users will use it to configure and modify the software to meet their exact needs. The best changes will get passed back to the software developer and reincorporated in the master release.

@maxmarchione @bentkennedy yeah but this can't really distinguish between an IQ of 130 or 150 IRL - or even 125 or 150. My tested FSIQ /GAI is 146 / 157 but unless you take an officially proctored test, it's very hard to distinguish. Even at Mensa meetups it's impossible to tell.

@bentkennedy Probably an incomplete answer, but largely by their quality of reasoning, depth of knowledge, speed of processing, quality of recall, ability to grapple with abstract concepts, and to an extent, the things they've worked on / built

Just about every >150 iq person I know uses nicotine. Nicotine is underrated and misunderstood

@NickBaere @Jupupa1 @Noahpinion indeed I am!

@nilukulasingham @Jupupa1 @Noahpinion “I’m a Mensa member” - you’re an overconfident under-achiever

Humanity was hitting a wall before AI came

@Yair_Rosenberg yeah I don't think this is true at all though, most Democrats are against this war because it's Trump but they are not even denying that the Iranian regime is problematic. If Biden / Obama was running this then the reaction would be very very different.

In 2002, most ambitious Democratic politicians supported a Middle Eastern war. In 2026, most oppose it. I wrote about the slow, then sudden, death of the hawkish Democrat, and the many reasons behind the party's anti-war turn. Link below.

@Jupupa1 @Noahpinion Sure but now you aren't measuring IQ if you don't renorm - you can say general intelligence has declined sure, but IQ is an explicit relative score that gets renormed otherwise it is no longer measuring a quotient

@Jupupa1 @Noahpinion This isn't really true - I'm a Mensa member so I know this pretty well, but WAIS is normed in the US and then renormed in for each country. And then it gets renormed every couple of years or so the next WAIS will be normed with w/e the next global population is.

@nilukulasingham @Noahpinion You just have to anchor the average to somewhere. Usually British are used as the baseline 100. Average IQ of the world is way less than 100 if done this way. It is not controversial

@lambda_thoughts @gokulr sure but no founder is going to give you a 2 mil val after going through YC

@gokulr A 200x is great, but had you invested at a $2m valuation instead of a $20m valuation, that 200x would now be 1,500x instead.

PRICE DOESN"T MATTER AT EARLY STAGE 800+ investments over 20 years have taught me one thing: price is irrelevant at seed/A round, as long as it's below a "reasonable" number (which is a function of geography / space). If it's a great company, your entry price doesn't matter. if it's not good/great, your entry price doesn't matter either.

@rajivayyangar Having same bug as others where mine is not showing up, will send a dm

Builders ✨showed up ✨ Check out the leaderboard today - it’s exciting to see so many YC applications!

introducing the AI Agent Glow Up ✨ Hackathon! a curated hackathon for technical builders in SF, with judges from: Gemini, NVIDIA, Meta, Pika, Exa AI, YC and more! 📍 7th March at @WorkOS offices! the focus: building beautiful UI/UX experiences for agents. hosted by @buildclub_ with: @Google, @WorkOS , sylph ai, @AgoraIO, @PrefectIO, @ExaAILabs and @gmi_cloud. many prizes ($15K+), street creds, photographers / headshots and more up for grabs. may the most cracked builder win! RSVP (spots are capped/vetted so get in fast) 🧵

@hthieblot don't really agree with this tbh, the beauty of gaming is shared experiences, hyper personalization means stuff like walkthroughs, discussion forms, lets plays etc become less accessible. Every frame being generated removes the joy of sharing the same experience with others.

Gaming is about to change; every frame is AI-generated and runs locally on the latest iPhone at 60 FPS.