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🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #319
Daily dispatches from the world of technology.
Happy Friday! Let's finish the week with energy!
🔔 WHATS NEW
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Geek Gossip
#Competitive-Programming - Psyho, a very talented competitive programmer (who always tops the leaderboards) successfully beat OpenAI’s AI at the AtCoder World Tour Finals!
Latest Updates
Perplexity Pro Is Now Available For FREE For All Airtel Users
Airtel has partnered with Perplexity, an AI-powered search and answer engine, to provide a 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro free of cost to its 360 million customers. This means you can access advanced AI capabilities, including real-time answers, deep research, and more, without paying the usual INR 17,000. You can log in to the Airtel Thanks App to get started.
Indian Startup backed by YC shuts down
Vedant Agarwala announced the shutdown of CodeParrot after 2.5 challenging years. Despite early wins like joining YC and hitting revenue milestones, the team struggled through pivots and couldn’t sustain growth. He's now on a sabbatical, still bullish on AI/LLMs, and seeking new cofounders for his next venture.
India to Train 5.5 Lakh VLEs in AI Under IndiaAI Mission
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced free AI training for 5.5 lakh village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs) running Common Service Centres under the IndiaAI mission. The goal is to upskill 10 lakh citizens in technologies like AI, ML, and cybersecurity to boost income and digital empowerment.
Changelog
Spotify - Adds two new audiobook plans, Audiobooks+ and Audiobooks+ for Plan Members, offering additional listening hours and family sharing capabilities.
Threads - Allows users to sign up with their Facebook profiles, enabling personalized content recommendations and cross-platform activity suggestions.
WhatsApp - Introduces Question Feature in Status Updates, Allowing Users to Ask and Answer Open-Ended Questions within the App
Slack - Adds AI-powered features to explain company jargon, automate writing tasks, and provide AI-generated summaries of task requirements.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Rustfs | High-performance distributed object storage for MinIO alternative.
In Case You Missed It
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Job Board
Principal Frontend Engineer @ Mugafi (Onsite - Gurgaon)
✨Experience : 6+ years (TypeScript | React.js)
💰Expected Salary : ₹30L – ₹40L / year
Miscellaneous
Mastering Git: A Journey To The Heart Of Git
This article guides you through the process of creating a Git repository from scratch without using the standard git init command. You'll learn about the underlying "plumbing" commands and how Git stores objects, including commits, files, and branches, using Content Addressable Storage (CAS).
Simulating Life With Code
Explore the Physarum Algorithm and 36 Points, a fascinating technique for generating organic-like simulations with code, using particle movement and trail diffusion.
Tech Framework Futility
Don't invest in non-transferable skills like React; focus on fundamentals like JavaScript, TypeScript, and understanding specs. Most frameworks are short-lived, with Web Components and React being exceptions due to their large ecosystems and communities.
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We believe in sharing great resources, and these newsletters are some good ones. They offer sharp, focused insights - especially around tech topics we might only touch on briefly.
If you're into cryptocurrency and blockchain, we recommend Cryptogram - it dives deep into the space, which we don’t often cover in detail.
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For startup enthusiasts, Rustic Flute is a must-read, especially since we’ve noticed many of you love staying on top of the latest in the startup world.
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