Sahil M Bansal
@smb06.bsky.social
Helping build software products while circling the Sun one year at a time. Interests: Science, storytelling, Arsenal, AI, Product Development, not in that order.
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Sahil M Bansal
@smb06.bsky.social
· Jan 19
Hello, B.Sky. It’s time to make new friends here. Originally from India, I work in tech as a product manager in San Francisco.
My posts here may contain a mix of tech, soccer, nature/adventure travel, weird historical fun facts, and daily life in #SanFrancisco
Look forward to new beginnings.
My posts here may contain a mix of tech, soccer, nature/adventure travel, weird historical fun facts, and daily life in #SanFrancisco
Look forward to new beginnings.
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Four open play goals. Take that.
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Four open play goals. Take that.
A goal condensed at home. We are dropping standards, Mikel.
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A goal condensed at home. We are dropping standards, Mikel.
Weirdly confident about this one.
Dear football gods - please don’t mess this up. Come on ARSENAL!
Dear football gods - please don’t mess this up. Come on ARSENAL!
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Weirdly confident about this one.
Dear football gods - please don’t mess this up. Come on ARSENAL!
Dear football gods - please don’t mess this up. Come on ARSENAL!
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Global expectations around climate change has shifted dramatically in the last decade, suggesting that similarly significant changes are on the horizon.
Why now is the best time to invest in climate tech | TechCrunch
Global expectations around climate change has shifted dramatically in the last decade, suggesting that similarly significant changes are on the horizon.
techcrunch.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Global expectations around climate change has shifted dramatically in the last decade, suggesting that similarly significant changes are on the horizon.
I asked ChatGPT to summarize my personality profile based on recent interactions, and memorize it. Hmm, it’s not far off.
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I asked ChatGPT to summarize my personality profile based on recent interactions, and memorize it. Hmm, it’s not far off.
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Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City is the only place in the world where you can find wild axolotls. Ecologist Luis Zambrano is on a quest to save these beloved amphibians: buff.ly/vnyg53i
!["If we save the axolotl and we save Xochimilco, which is threatened by a city of 20 million people, we can save anything around the world. Gives
[us] a lot of hope." —Dr. Luis Zambrano](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rjtifgmgwnacwa24lqp4tpsy/bafkreieu5td2pevirow7bnfsz7qfc6lm652yc3fbqjpel2ltjscz3ttceq@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City is the only place in the world where you can find wild axolotls. Ecologist Luis Zambrano is on a quest to save these beloved amphibians: buff.ly/vnyg53i
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Wow. Never seen it expressed like that before. Those are some odds!
"Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys playing organised youth football in England will ever play in the Premier League."
"Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys playing organised youth football in England will ever play in the Premier League."
Iliman Ndiaye: From Rising Ballers to the Prem
The French-born footballer did not have an easy run on his way to the top, with numerous clubs rejecting him.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Wow. Never seen it expressed like that before. Those are some odds!
"Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys playing organised youth football in England will ever play in the Premier League."
"Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys playing organised youth football in England will ever play in the Premier League."
Two world class open play goals. Take that!
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Two world class open play goals. Take that!
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Trossard has been fantastic today. 👏
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trossard has been fantastic today. 👏
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Think the team lost focus with that bullshit yellow.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Think the team lost focus with that bullshit yellow.
It would be utterly befitting of the football gods if Xhaka ends up with a red card in this game.
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It would be utterly befitting of the football gods if Xhaka ends up with a red card in this game.
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The Arsenal away fans are so so good… this Piero Hincapie chant is one of the best I’ve heard.
Get this ringing around the Emirates as soon as possible!
Never had a player from Ecuador… 🇪🇨🎶
Get this ringing around the Emirates as soon as possible!
Never had a player from Ecuador… 🇪🇨🎶
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Arsenal away fans are so so good… this Piero Hincapie chant is one of the best I’ve heard.
Get this ringing around the Emirates as soon as possible!
Never had a player from Ecuador… 🇪🇨🎶
Get this ringing around the Emirates as soon as possible!
Never had a player from Ecuador… 🇪🇨🎶
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This has surely been the best half of football that Vikor Gyokeres has played for Arsenal, and probably by some distance? Holding it up, switching play, finding through balls.
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This has surely been the best half of football that Vikor Gyokeres has played for Arsenal, and probably by some distance? Holding it up, switching play, finding through balls.
That was an incredible pass from Gyökeres! 2-0.
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
That was an incredible pass from Gyökeres! 2-0.
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Pray for all those poor people in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa could/will do some serious damage there 🙏
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Pray for all those poor people in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa could/will do some serious damage there 🙏
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A DNS issue (it’s always DNS) in AWS US-East-1 region caused a 16 hour outage across a host of services from Snapchat to Roblox.
We’ve gone from an internet that could survive a nuclear strike to one that can’t handle a DNS issue from a single web host. Time to update those disaster recovery plans.
We’ve gone from an internet that could survive a nuclear strike to one that can’t handle a DNS issue from a single web host. Time to update those disaster recovery plans.
A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions
A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.
arstechnica.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A DNS issue (it’s always DNS) in AWS US-East-1 region caused a 16 hour outage across a host of services from Snapchat to Roblox.
We’ve gone from an internet that could survive a nuclear strike to one that can’t handle a DNS issue from a single web host. Time to update those disaster recovery plans.
We’ve gone from an internet that could survive a nuclear strike to one that can’t handle a DNS issue from a single web host. Time to update those disaster recovery plans.
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Yicai: "China now supplies more than 60 percent of the world’s power batteries and about 70 percent of its battery materials, according to official data, giving a competitive edge to the country’s booming new energy vehicle sector."
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-...
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-...
China’s Share of Global Power Battery Market Exceeds 60%
www.yicaiglobal.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Yicai: "China now supplies more than 60 percent of the world’s power batteries and about 70 percent of its battery materials, according to official data, giving a competitive edge to the country’s booming new energy vehicle sector."
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-...
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-...
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Kind of remarkable to hear Diego Simeone saying his Atletico Madrid team need to learn from Arsenal how to be "clinical in different phases of the game". The last time he was here you could not have imagined Arsenal being held up as an exemplar of precision for a Simeone team.
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Kind of remarkable to hear Diego Simeone saying his Atletico Madrid team need to learn from Arsenal how to be "clinical in different phases of the game". The last time he was here you could not have imagined Arsenal being held up as an exemplar of precision for a Simeone team.
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Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much.
Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.
Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.
October 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much.
Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.
Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.
The new rule made up mid-season seems to be you can run through a player as long as you get a touch on the ball afterwards.
Comms: he got a touch on the ball, this will get overturned
how did he manage to get a touch when he had to get Saka first
how did he manage to get a touch when he had to get Saka first
October 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The new rule made up mid-season seems to be you can run through a player as long as you get a touch on the ball afterwards.
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So you can run through the back of someone but if you get the ball that’s not a foul!
What a fucking joke.
What a fucking joke.
October 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
So you can run through the back of someone but if you get the ball that’s not a foul!
What a fucking joke.
What a fucking joke.