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Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
A developer in China named tw93 got tired of his laptop dying.
He would open Slack and watch 524 megabytes of disk space disappear. He would open Discord and watch another 265. He would open Notion and watch 800 megabytes of RAM evaporate before he had typed a single word.
He looked into why.
Every "desktop app" on his computer was the same thing. A website wrapped in a full copy of the Chrome browser engine. The framework is called Electron. An empty Electron app starts at 150 megabytes of RAM before you click anything. With twelve of them open, his laptop was running twelve copies of the same browser.
He thought there had to be a better way.
So in 2022, he started building one.
He called it Pake. Two characters in Chinese mean "packaging." He wrote it in Rust on top of a framework called Tauri. The idea was simple. Point Pake at any webpage. Get a desktop app. Without dragging an entire browser engine into the binary.
The first version of Slack he wrapped with it was 8 megabytes.
Not 524. Eight.
That is what 20 times smaller looks like.
Four years later, his repo has 50,594 stars. 6,144 forks. The license is MIT. The last commit was yesterday.
The bio on his GitHub reads: "Anything added dilutes everything else."
Today the Pake releases page contains pre-built apps for ChatGPT, Discord, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Twitter, YouTube, Excalidraw, Flomo, WeChat, and twelve more. All under 10 megabytes. All native. All free.
Or you point Pake at any URL you want and it builds one for you in one command.
Slack's desktop app: 524 megabytes.
Pake-built Slack: 8 megabytes.
Discord's desktop app: 265 megabytes.
Pake-built Discord: 9 megabytes.
ChatGPT for Windows: 260 megabytes.
Pake-built ChatGPT: 9 megabytes.
tw93 is one person. He has 11,305 followers on GitHub. He runs a blog at tw93.fun. He has shipped 39 public repos. He still pushes commits to Pake every week.
He did not start a company. He did not raise money. He did not write a Medium post about how Electron is dead.
He just shipped the thing that made it true.
(Link in the comments)
🎉 Time to celebrate!
India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.
Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.
Follow: @AFpost
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
Also, this is why i don't feel like animal rescues actually do much good. For example saving a pig from a slaughterhouse, they will just breed another to meet demand.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
THIS GUY FOUND WHY YOUR CLAUDE CODE COSTS ARE 10-20X HIGHER THAN THEY SHOULD BE
he reverse engineered the entire Claude Code binary. found two hidden bugs that silently break your prompt cache.
BUG 1: if your conversation mentions billing, tokens, or Claude Code internals, the cache breaks on every single request.
there's a hidden string replacement baked into the binary that targets billing attribution codes.
if that string appears anywhere in your conversation history, it replaces the wrong one and your entire cache rebuilds from scratch.
you get charged full price instead of cached price.
fix: run Claude Code via npx instead of the standalone binary.
BUG 2: every time you use --resume, your entire conversation cache rebuilds from scratch. one resume on a large conversation costs $0.15 that should cost near zero.
the system injects tool attachments in a different position on resume vs fresh sessions. this changes the cache prefix and forces a full rebuild. every single resume costs you a one-time hit on your entire context.
fix: no clean fix yet, as it was introduced in v2.1.69. downgrading to v2.1.30 works but you lose months of features.
on a 500K token conversation these two bugs combined can cost you $0.20+ per request.
if your usage has been burning way faster than expected, this is probably why.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
The #dairy industry 👺They drag their collapsed slaves out and send them to slaughter when they can’t fix them to produce what is demanded from them. Your dairy comes from pain suffering abuse and slaughter. Why support this if you don’t have to? #DitchDairy TODAY #GoPlantbased NOW
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
"Consider that animals, like us, have one life. It is their life, their only life, and as important to them as our own life is to us."
- Jill Robinson
#EndTheCageAge
@CIWF_Global
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
A blatant overreach that mocks the very principles of justice - this is exactly what Emergency looks like, except that this time round the unelected have declared it.
On this, one of the darkest of days in the history of Indian Judiciary, I stand with Michel Danino. Always will.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
If there were one thing that I could get people to fully grasp, it would be this. No one wants to hear it.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
Imagine this was your life, exploited, unable to even turn around for months at a time. Forced to give birth again and again, your babies taken from you every time. Years of suffering… and then you’re slaughtered.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
Sows are kept in gestation crates where they’re artificially inseminated, then moved into farrowing crates to nurse their babies. 🐖
For both stages they’re given barely more space than their own bodies. Unable to turn around, unable to comfort their piglets, unable to move freely. 😣
This is outrageous 💔
#pigs #pigfarming #animalrights
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
Today marks the end of the survivor participation for our rape gang inquiry hearings. I simply have no words that describe the bravery and courage of these women who have come forward.
No words.
What they have been through is indescribable.
It has been a life-changing experience for me. I never thought such evil was possible. Never. Not here, in Britain. In our towns, in our communities. It is pure evil. These men are so utterly depraved.
If it were up to me, thousands of them would receive the death penalty.
To do what they did, on such an industrial scale, to innocent young girls - many of whom were already in such an incredibly vulnerable place? There is no redemption possible. The world is a better place without them in it.
I started this inquiry because so many others failed.
Speaking honestly, I did not understand how deep this evil is rooted in our society.
Police, politicians, council officials, the NHS, social workers, children’s homes - it is everywhere.
IS everywhere. Not was. IS.
Meeting these women, and men, listening to how severely they were failed by those tasked to protect them? My views have changed forever. I knew it was bad. I never knew how bad it was.
Every single one who has come forward is a hero in my view.
The courage and grace in how they have conducted themselves is unlike anything I have seen in my life. All because they don’t want others to suffer the same fate. That is an extraordinary sacrifice. They could have just moved on with their lives. Tried to forget. But no, they chose to do this. I am in awe of all of them.
Our hearings will finish tomorrow, following the contribution of three more expert witnesses.
Then the next stage begins. We will produce a report, and then we will seek to put people in prison. There are FAR more testimonies and evidence to release - this will keep coming and coming and coming.
Even with a media blackout, we have reached tens of millions. We have made real progress.
And following such immense demand, we will reopen the portal so that more women can tell their stories.
This is just the beginning.
Politicians from all parties have failed these girls, again and again and again.
I do not intend to join that list.
To everyone who donated, thank you. To our team, thank you. And especially to the survivors, thank you.
I believe that together we can start to make Britain understand what is happening, and then finally do something about it.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
The animals held in cages and tanks aren't asking for much. They just want to be free.
So let's free them. It is their birthright. And our duty.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
In 2025, we killed:
- 300 million cows
- 400 million rabbits
- 500 million turkeys
- 600 million goats
- 700 million sheep
- 1.5 billion pigs
- 4 billion ducks
- 70 billion chickens
- 250 billion shrimp
- 2 trillion fish
When is “Enough is enough”?
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
She can’t turn around.
She can’t walk.
She’ll spend her life in a cage barely bigger than her body.
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
For years, they were forced, beaten, and made to dance under the scorching sun. Finally, it has truly ended.
Jakarta has officially put a full stop to the use of dancing monkeys, ending a street practice that caused immense suffering to these animals.
The practice was first banned in 2013, but despite the law, performances continued quietly for years. Now, enforcement has finally brought the cruelty to a complete end.
Monkeys were often taken from the wild as babies and trained through fear and pain, made to perform for entertainment regardless of exhaustion or injury.
This moment means more than a rule on paper. It means freedom, rescue, and a chance for these animals to live without exploitation.
For animal lovers, this is long-awaited relief. When bans are finally enforced, lives are truly changed.
References:
BBC... Jakarta's ban on dancing monkeys
The Guardian... Jakarta moves to enforce ban on performing street monkeys
Pravin Chaudhary retweeted
You re approaching this as a non leftist - so you start with, "the other team is winning every election. What are they doing right and what are we doing wrong?"
The keyword is doing.
The left doesnt operate that way. The difference isn't one of politics, policies or even principles - it's a fundamentally different world view.
They genuinely, passionately believe in their own unearned moral superiority. So if they lose, it's not their fault - it's the voters, the machine or something else.
When their map doesn't match the terrain, they proudly claim the terrain is wrong.
The keyword is not doing, it's being.
That's why debate between the right and the left is futile - since it would require a shared framework of reality.
I actually watched this whole episode.
As expected, this wasn't a comedy, not even a proper political satire. But the usual RW bashing passed off as comedy.
Be that as it may, I had thought that over last 10+ years, our so called liberals (Varun Grover in this case) would've at least somewhat understood what drives the RW in India. Why people vote for Modi ji.
But I was wrong! These people are still as clueless as they were in 2014. They did not know why Modi ji won in 2014, they still don't know why Modi ji wins in 2026.
Their thinking has not evolved. They've not learned.
They've this preconcieved notion about who's RW, how he thinks and what drives him. And they are still trying to force-fit the reality around them into these caricatures.
There is absolute lack of effort or enthusiasm or intellect to understand the 'other' side. But I guess if they do so, it will make them uncomfortable because they might start questioning their core beliefs, their very cause of existence.
Therefore, a caricatured, hackeneyed, dumb, neanderthal image of a RW person suits them just fine.
