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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My talk on using FHE for building real world apps is at 7 PM ET today at @hope.net! Watch or stream it if you are at the conference today!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Made the Hacker News front page again. 😎 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4900...

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I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC | Hacker News

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just got accepted to do a talk @hope.net in NYC in August on building consumer apps with FHE. 😎

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@kagi.com Is Kagi News still a priority for you? The daily refresh has been delayed most days recently and load times have gotten much worse. :(

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

People are paying for privacy. Zero advertising or marketing so far but @MonadicDNA has been getting its first paid customers. Slow and steady..

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nothing more satisfying than browsing all the categories I was able to add to @kagi.com News! 😎

Screenshot showing four categories I added to Kagi News, NYC, US Soccer, Pro Wrestling and Cycling.

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Good news: My PR for Cycling, U.S. Soccer and Pro Wrestling on @kagi.com News was merged! Bad news: I became even more mindful of how under threat RSS and the open Web are, even though many news sources use Wordpress. Enabling RSS on Wordpress would cost so little! github.com/kagisearch/k...

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Additional sports categories: Cycling, Professional Wrestling & U.S. Soccer by vishakh · Pull Request #353 · kagisearch/kite-public

Cycling: Balanced between the sport and the lifestyle Pro Wrestling: Balanced between WWE and AEW without ignoring NJPW, TNA, etc. U.S. Soccer: Adding this as the existing Soccer category totally i...

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

There is no reasonable composite key that can be used to pick out a unique record in the @gwascatalog.bsky.social dataset.

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Calculating embedding on one million genetic studies. Enjoying the GPU hum ASMR. 🤤

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Irrationally proud my new category made Kagi News!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

FHE is a technique which allows computation over encrypted data. For the past year, my colleagues and I have been building @monadicdna.bsky.social. As the app approaches beta, here are the main lessons we have learned about the state of FHE along the way. vishakh.blog/2025/08/06/l...

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Lessons from using FHE to build a Secure Consumer App

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic technique which allows computation over encrypted data. This almost magical ability to allow third parties to process information without being…

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Made it to the HN front page!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis Recapping how @monadicdna.bsky.social used multi-party compute to run a groundbreaking experiment this year where a cohort of thirty pioneers had their DNA collected for fully encrypted storage and analysis. vishakh.blog/2025/07/08/u...

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Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis

Earlier this year, Monadic DNA kicked off an experiment to demonstrate that people can access and analyze their genetic data with anonymity and privacy. Monadic DNA collected saliva samples from th…

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Went with these garish slides to talk about accelerated FHE genomics with @monadicdna.bsky.social. The colors are furious but they will wake up the people during this afternoon session!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The FHE Illuminati is starting to assemble at the COED Summit at Stanford. Can my poor brain handle all this signal? We'll find out!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I'll be speaking at the "FHE Hardware Acceleration Summit" at Stanford this Thursday. My talk is on "Accelerating Secure Genomics: Tales from the FHE Trenches" 😅 Join me if you are in the Bay Area and want to nerd out! coedcon.github.io

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 28/05/2025

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

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Can’t take it with you

I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Help alpha test the @monadicdna.bsky.social iPhone app! Only 100 spots open right now. TestFlight invite link: testflight.apple.com/join/KnPAc4zz Don't have your own raw DNA data? Use this file for testing: drive.google.com/file/d/1WK3z...

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Join the Monadic DNA — Own Your DNA beta

Available on iOS

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Made some tweaks to the @monadicdna.bsky.social TestFlight app today to get it ready for public alpha: 🥡 Kit options have been reduced with a note that more will be added later. 📜 Clearer 23andMe text ❓ Google form for new kits 🆘 Separate help link 🔑 Key export now works ⚠️ Alpha release warning

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

@regeneron.com buying 23andMe: - Relief in the aggregate. The crypto pretend bidders were a mix of unready and incompetent. Regeneron is relatively solid. - Not great for those who want open and secure personal genomics. The good news is we're putting out the @monadicdna.bsky.social app soon!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Playing with the DNA data we got back from our saliva collection event in Denver. Using my own data to debug and playing with it while I am at it. I have the AA variant! And I have crazy RLS!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

> be me > building Monadic DNA app for secure, open personal genomics > need Zama FHE to keep data private > month writing Rust wrappers > generate bindings like a mad scientist > get iOS app working > Zama drops official Swift support out of the box > mfw all that work could’ve been a pod install

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Coming soon: A public alpha version of our encrypted genomics app, @monadicdna.bsky.social!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It better! (Even though it’s not full genome sequences)

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I recently appeared on (OG biohacker) Dave Asprey's podcast to talk about @monadicdna.bsky.social's work with encrypted genomics. The conversation is really out there in a good way! Check it out at youtu.be/Tef3G0zciz4?....

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The Web3 Deep State: You’ll Never Own Your DNA—Unless You Do This | Nillion

YouTube video by Dave Asprey

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Getting ready to sequence and analyze people under encryption for the first time ever!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Please join us in Denver this Friday and help make history. Perhaps for the first time ever we're going to anonymously sequence DNA and calculate genetic traits under full encryption. This is a proud moment for the whole @monadicdna.bsky.social team. Info & event link below 👇

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Anyone in my network have connects at labs that can sequence a small batch of DNA samples? Don't need anything fancy, even a small set of SNPs will do.

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Just this past month in Delhi I had someone come over while I sipped my morning cacao, collect samples and then send me a report the same day with 101 health parameters for $37. This unlocks a few excellent possibilities..

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Reposting my 2016 Medium article on the first ever financial instrument on #Ethereum which I co-created in 2015. vishakh.blog/2024/12/03/u... Eight years on, the contents are positively charming!

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’ve listened to many episodes of @razibkhan.bsky.social’s podcasts but I somehow found this one the most fascinating so far. www.razibkhan.com/p/megan-mcar... Time to look for more food discourse.

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Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to industrial

A cultural history of food

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

One person's obscurantism is another person's mysticism.

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Empiricism and Scientific Change in Judea Pearl's 'The Book of Why' vishakh.blog/2024/11/20/e... Judea Pearl's book recounts a shift in the scientific treatment of causation but also evokes some long-standing questions about the interplay of philosophy and science.

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Empiricism and Scientific Change in Judea Pearl’s ‘The Book of Why’

(Originally posted in March 2021 at Edit: A brief response from Prof. Pearl to this blog post may be found at Several years ago, as a newly-minted college freshman, I learned how the eighteenth cen…

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Science is vaguely delineated and ultimately brokered through a highly social process and has no fixed meaning or identity.

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

I am not working on a blockchain app but an app ecosystem which uses blockchains with a light touch. Here are the related and adjacent features I am aiming for in a next generation personal genomics product:

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

I am an early adopter of 23andMe and now I am working on a next generation personal genomics service. Here’s some stuff I’d like to do better using the latest in encryption technologies. 👇

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

My team and I are building Monadic DNA, the next generation of personal genomics. We’ll be using the latest in secure computation including MPC, FHE and ZK. monadicdna.com Watch my feed as I think out loud and leave progress updates.

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Monadic DNA Portal

Generated by monadic DNA portal

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