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Sundar Narasimhan

@sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social
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Engineer by way of Lovedale, IIT, MIT AILab (before it turned into CSAIL), worked at startups, finance, consulting before software (Ascent, ITA Software, Google, and now at Sabre).. yes, mainframes to AI! Investor part-time in a few industries I track!

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DdZYFWp... LOL 😀
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Great advice from $AMZN engineer - all of these points ring true to me! 👏 @alifeengineered.substack.com
alifeengineered.substack.com
What I Learned From Nearly 1,000 Interviews at Amazon
I was an Amazon Bar Raiser for over a decade. Here's what I was looking for.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Great math #Books recommended at @newtraderu.com
newtraderu.com
How to be Good in Math: 10 Book Recommendations - New Trader U
Most people who struggle with math were never bad at it to start with; they were just taught in a way that made it feel foreign and frustrating.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
One hour is not enough to read and digest this important note wrt #ArtificialIntelligence and #Mathematics by @daniellitt.com Following up on #Knuth’s shock shock paper!
daniellitt.com
Mathematics in the Library of Babel — Daniel Litt
Mathematics isn't only about saying true things. It's about asking the right questions, being confused, stumbling about, getting distracted, being wrong, recognizing when you're wrong, being stuck. Mo...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Another useful post re #SystemDesign @github.com repos @kdnuggets.com
kdnuggets.com
10 GitHub Repositories to Master System Design - KDnuggets
Want to move beyond drawing boxes and arrows and actually understand how scalable systems are built? These GitHub repositories break down the concepts, patterns, and real-world trade-offs that make gr...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Thanks to Bala Priya @kdnuggets.com for introducing me to #Polars for #Python #Datascience projects. Handy addition to #Pandas (replacement 🙂?)!
kdnuggets.com
Pandas vs. Polars: A Complete Comparison of Syntax, Speed, and Memory
Need help choosing the right Python dataframe library? This article compares Pandas and Polars to help you decide.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Nice! @developers.google.com provides a hosted MCP server for @datacommons.org! #ArtificialIntelligence #Data
developers.googleblog.com
Data Commons Hosted MCP: Zero-Install Public Data for AI- Google Developers Blog
Connect AI agents to Data Commons instantly with the new hosted MCP service on Google Cloud. Enjoy secure, scalable, and free data access without the hassle of local server management.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Several articles re #Judgement vs probabilistic optimizations as exemplified by #LLMs and #ArtificialIntelligence are emerging.. this book review on #Uncertainty and #Risk is worth reading! How #Reflexivity and crowd behavior can alter systems and outcomes!
wp.nyu.edu
Book Review: Radical Uncertainty
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 10/02/2026
@hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book, “Clearing the Air”, will be published in North America on February 17th! (link to pre-order now in 🧵 ) Hannah, our Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead, published her first book, “Not the End of the World”, in 2024...
A picture of Hannah Ritchie's book Clearing the Air
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
@stewartbrand.bsky.social amazing writing - am told he has a new book on #Maintenance coming out! Books referenced here now on my #toread queue as well!
worksinprogress.co
The Maintenance Race - Works in Progress Magazine
The world’s first round-the-world solo yacht race was a thrilling and, for some, deadly contest. Its contestants' efforts can teach us about the art of maintenance.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Had never heard of the #Kardashev scale - thanks to @mattlevine.bsky.social and @moneystuff.bsky.social podcast. Fascinating stuff!
en.wikipedia.org
Kardashev scale - Wikipedia
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
@tomshardware.com has a good Minisforum MS-02 review.. had been considering quieter @beelink.com units but lack of vPRO on those have me looking 🙂
tomshardware.com
Minisforum MS-02 Ultra mini workstation hands-on — can it replace my hulking desktop PC that is 11 times larger?
This new mini-PC features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and a surprising amount of modern expandability options in a modest sub-5-liter chassis.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
#steveyegge (who has had an illustrious career) attempts to figure out how #softwaredevelopment might evolve in the #AI #LLM era! Interesting to read about the #HiveMind!
steve-yegge.medium.com
The Anthropic Hive Mind
As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
More services to learn about for my #homelab setup thanks to @xda-developers.com
xda-developers.com
6 essential self-hosted services I run 24/7
These QoL applications are essential for my daily tasks
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Nice detail on how to handle docs + context windows to handle code generation tasks with #ClaudeCode @blog.langchain.com
blog.langchain.com
How to turn Claude Code into a domain specific coding agent
Authored by: Aliyan Ishfaq Coding agents are great at writing code that uses popular libraries on which LLMs have been heavily trained on. But point them to a custom library, a new version of a libra...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Hmm need to give #PikVM a try!! Thanks to @xda-developers.com #Hardware
xda-developers.com
5 PCIe devices that are perfect for your home lab
Those spare PCIe slots aren't going to fill themselves
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Couple of really interesting #nonfiction #books here! #Crime #Iran #ClimateChange
bookbub.com
Best New Popular Nonfiction - August 2025 - Readworthy
Check out this month’s popular nonfiction picks — which include a #1 New York Times bestselling work of true crime, a thought-provoking exploration of the origins of language, and more!
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Neat! #Python #SoftwareDevelopment
youtu.be
Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming August 28 🚨
YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Love these step by step articles (need to try Hetzner)! Agree re NoMachine and Claude #SoftwareDevelopment Thanks to @craftingteams.substack.com Termius and Mosh are my gotos as well!
open.substack.com
Building a Vibe VPS
A workable Vibe VPS build to give your Claude Code a home at less than $20 a month
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Always interested in contrarian opinions well defended like this one Brent Johnson @ Santiago Capital argues for the USD bull case even given our debt crisis today! #Investing
podcasts.apple.com
A US Sovereign Debt Crisis is Bullish for the Dollar | Brent Johnson
Podcast Episode · Monetary Matters with Jack Farley · 07/27/2025 · 1h 23m
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
@dev.to article summarizes key open source alternatives to popular software (but has Mastodon instead of @bsky.app?). Others I’m not quibbling with .. #SoftwareDevelopment
dev.to
12 Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software (For Developers)
Over the years, I’ve relied heavily on industry-standard tools like Postman, Notion, GitHub, and...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Umm wait — 200m rps with #cgi-bin? Really? Need to check this out! Thanks to @simonwillison.net for the pointer!
simonwillison.net
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Great timely #Books to read this summer @mitsloan.mit.edu !
mitsloan.mit.edu
MIT Sloan’s 2025 summer book collection | MIT Sloan
Eight research-backed titles covering retirement transitions, artificial intelligence and skills development, and how to build an innovation advantage.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Knew about most of these but not all .. check out essential #HomeLab services @howtogeek.com.. (need to try out #Scrypted for instance)
howtogeek.com
10 Tools Every Homelabber Should Try at Least Once
I bet you haven't used at least one of these homelab tools.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Great article @atlassian.com on their migration of four million #Postgres instances to #AWS Aurora .. must read if you are using single tenant configs! #Database
atlassian.com
Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora - Work Life by Atlassian
Explore how Atlassian successfully migrated four million Jira databases to AWS Aurora, overcoming unique technical and operational challenges at massive scale. Learn how the team balanced reliability,...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Another awesome 🙂 article that wonders if just adding that word makes your GitHub repo awesome 🤔 ? #DataScience #MachineLearning @kdnuggets.com
kdnuggets.com
10 GitHub Awesome Lists for Data Science - KDnuggets
Most popular educational resource list on GitHub for Python, R, SQL, analytics, machine learning, datasets, and more.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
$META joins #Kotlin foundation for their #Android builds @engineering.fb.com
engineering.fb.com
Meta joins Kotlin Foundation
We are proud to announce that Meta has officially joined the Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, marking a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to Kotlin and the broader Android developm…
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Short summary of why #Java renaissance is taking hold courtesy @newstack.io - covering language feature evolution!
thenewstack.io
Inside Java's Language Renaissance
The path to making Java simpler, more expressive and more data-oriented.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Not a front end dev myself but am deeply interested in the frameworks and techniques that make better UX possible — @kdnuggets.com list below is nice (has other bits for someone starting out).
kdnuggets.com
10 GitHub Repositories to Master Web Development in 2025 - KDnuggets
Learn web development skills through courses, exercises, interview questions, checklist, and project ideas.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Gradio, streamlit and now Taipy - nice series of articles on how to build dashboards with #Python! #datascience @towardsdatascience.com
towardsdatascience.com
Building A Modern Dashboard with Python and Taipy | Towards Data Science
A guide to building a front-end data application.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
+1 to focusing on developer joy to impact productivity.. good article @infoq.com — shoutout to @quarkus.io 🙂
infoq.com
Developer Joy: A Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity
In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, th...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Great article on math and #ArtificialIntelligence @technologyreview.com - great discoveries have also happened when two different fields were connected via a brilliant insight!
technologyreview.com
What’s next for AI and math
The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Good article @linkedin.com on using #LLMs and #ArtificialIntelligence to build the next generation of job search! 100 engineers ..🤔 wow!!
linkedin.com
Building the next generation of job search at LinkedIn
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#systems-hackers will love these papers from #HotOS summarized well by @brooker.co.za - metastable failures, posix_spawn v fork, NIC v OS etc etc!
brooker.co.za
Systems Fun at HotOS - Marc's Blog
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
There goes the weekend 🙂 thanks to @blog.jetbrains.com #Java #HAGW!!
blog.jetbrains.com
Java Annotated Monthly – June 2025 | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog
Java Annotated Monthly with the latest selection of tech news and tips for May is here.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#GenAI impact on #Travel Distribution - key insights from Accor, Kayak and Bonafide execs thanks to @phocuswright.com Mike Coletta and Norm Rose (doffs 🎩!), more questions than answers perhaps (personalization, content models, ads vs subscriptions, $GOOG, #OpenAI, Perplexity etc.)!
youtu.be
#GenAI's Impact on Travel Distribution - #Phocuswright's The New Age(nts) Trend Series Part 3
YouTube video by Phocuswright
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@wired.com is perhaps more tech savvy than most - starter article covers #MFA #passwordmanagers #VPN .. Would have liked more info on #Darkweb #Security #IdentityManagement
wired.com
A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations
Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Short good article @developers.redhat.com on ensuring you test for network latency locally! #SoftwareDevelopment #podman
developers.redhat.com
How to simulate network latency in local containers | Red Hat Developer
Use containers locally to simulate network latency with a distributed database cluster. Test architectures and identify issues before they occur in production
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This is a welcome announcement for #Java and #Kotlin developers! Thanks to @foojay.io @jetbrains.com @azul.com
foojay.io
Azul and JetBrains Collaborate to Enhance Runtime Performance for Kotlin Workloads
This strategic collaboration empowers Kotlin teams to accelerate development cycles and optimize application performance.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Having read @bostonglobe.com excellent reporting on wreckage of Steward Health Care by PE and Ralph de la Torre this list of #Books (esp re 2/20 and carried interest) look timely. #Investing #Illiquid
wsj.com
Four Books Sound the Alarm About the Power of Private Equity
Private-managers now influence the U.S. economy and politics in ways few Americans understand.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I’m drawn to listicles of #Books (Booksticles?) and this one has a few modern classics I hadn’t run across! @themirror.com
themirror.com
We read every single day — these are our 10 favorite books of all time
Looking for your next read? Our list of favorites has something for everyone, whatever your preferred genre
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Great article on #AgenticAI has this pearl from John Nash: “real-life decision-making is warped by psychology, asymmetry, and noise” .. @forbes.com As someone who worked on #robotics — couldn’t agree more re “autonomous physicality”.. great advances are being made in that AND #MARL!
forbes.com
Agentic AI: Winning In A World That Doesn’t Work That Way
Agentic AI is built to win—but the world isn’t a game. This piece explores why optimization fails, and what machines must learn to survive in human systems.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Having wrote “C++ is dead”🙂 on my copy of the xeroxed Oak paper this bit about #Java brought back a few memories (tearing my hair out w/ AWT, time zone bugs lurking due to Taligent (huh?).. as we labored on “Onto Java”! I could go on and on… )
blog.jetbrains.com
Do You Really Know Java? | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog
From a humble passion project to a major language powering billions of devices worldwide, Java's journey is anything but ordinary. Java has always been shaped by big ideas and the people behind
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Nice article on interactive development highlights useful techniques @lambdaisland.com #Clojure Thanks to Laurence Chen!
lambdaisland.com
On Interactive Development
by Laurence Chen When I was a child, my sister caught chickenpox. Instead of isolating us, our parents let us continue playing together, and I ended up getting infected too. My...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Good (tad long) article on #GenerativeAI at the edge .. #ArtificialIntelligence. IMO matter of when not if!
queue.acm.org
Generative AI at the Edge: Challenges and Opportunities - ACM Queue
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Another good #homelab setup .. hadn’t run across #gitea before, thanks to Shawna Staff!
medium.com
Building a Complete Docker Home Lab: From Development to Production
How I created a 33-service enterprise-grade infrastructure on a single machine using Docker — complete with CI/CD, monitoring, automation…
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
#Investing .. 🤞 but warning signs are mounting! Next week should be interesting!
businessinsider.com
Famed Wall Street bear warns of 'global financial market Armageddon'
"Major financial events often happen first in Japan, for example the late-1990s tech bubble bursting first in Japan," Albert Edwards wrote Thursday.
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Great nuanced take on Demis vs Sergey approaches toward #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence @Google $GOOG thanks to @venturebeat.com
venturebeat.com
At Google I/O, Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance — and declares Google will build the first AGI
Google co-founder Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance at Google I/O, declaring "Gemini will be the very first AGI," revealing philosophical tensions with DeepMind CEO Hassabis who urges scientific c...
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Nice list of Berkshire Hathaway companies by category! In an article re. the GOAT's successor. #Investing Thanks @fortune.com
fortune.com
Meet Greg Abel, the hockey fanatic and '500% friendly' man Warren Buffett handpicked to replace him as CEO and solve Berkshire Hathaway's problems
The firm veteran won the most closely watched succession race in corporate America. But can anyone really replace Warren?
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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Interview with #JamesGosling on #Java (lots of interesting tidbits — on the language AND his views on #ArtificialIntelligence — mostly negative!). Reaches 30 years next week — wow!
thenewstack.io
Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech
From trash-diving teen to tech pioneer, James Gosling's pragmatic genius shaped three decades of Java and modern computing.
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