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akhil

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akhil

@fkasummer

You say that the times are bad. Be better yourselves, and the times will be better: You are the times. Technology must multiply human agency. DMs closed.

New York, USA

Joined October 2018

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akhil
@fkasummer
Mar 19
If you have an obsessive streak, this is the greatest time to be working on frontier technology. The problems are genuinely monumentally difficult, which makes progress feel amazing. Besides, it's quiet on the frontier. None of the circus of mainstream AI.
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akhil
@fkasummer
Apr 4, 2021
dudes rock
akhil
@fkasummer
Jun 9, 2025
apple is about to have their windows vista moment
Apple Design
@TheAppleDesign
Jun 8, 2025
iOS 26 “Liquid Glass” Design will look absolutely gorgeous
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akhil
@fkasummer
Apr 28, 2022
I am doing a project about elderly programmers. If you are a programmer and over 25 please DM
akhil
@fkasummer
Oct 12, 2023
here’s the multiplayer browser engine i’ve been working on in action @braidbrowser Sound ON + rt invite link 👇
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akhil
@fkasummer
Nov 29, 2024
rare hacker news gem feeds prevent self construction
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akhil
@fkasummer
Oct 13, 2023
unironically yes inspired by @figma a while ago and decided the web should be designed like this so stayed in my new york apartment all year and wrote a bit over a million lines of c++ to make it happen
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akhil
@fkasummer
May 7, 2025
he won the fields medal slow thinking can be a competitive advantage question is why? under what conditions?
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akhil
@fkasummer
May 16, 2025
slack made a strategy mistake what is it
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akhil
@fkasummer
Oct 12, 2023
a bit over a million line of c++ in a year prob read ~10m lines of code
Miles
@technoHimbo
Oct 12, 2023
Replying to @fkasummer and @braidbrowser
The madman, he actually did it
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akhil
@fkasummer
Dec 20, 2024
when intelligence is infinite and ~free what's the bottleneck
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akhil
@fkasummer
Feb 8, 2025
I maintain that problem selection is the most important expression of taste during a paradigm shift
Startup Archive
@StartupArchive_
Feb 8, 2025
Patrick Collison’s advice for people in their 20s: “Work at a place with high standards” When asked for career advice for people in their 20s, Patrick recalls the book Apprentice to Genius. It follows three generations of scientists that mentored each other and were all
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akhil
@fkasummer
May 8, 2025
many legendary physicists and mathematicians are slow thinkers i wonder how much of this is due to them having a large default depth of field
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akhil
@fkasummer
Oct 26, 2022
if zuck pulls this off you can never talk shit to him my god