Hacker News: quacky_batak

New comment by quacky_batak in "Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes"

quacky_batak — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:18:19 +0000

This is an amazing project, alternative domain “the-indiex”

New comment by quacky_batak in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

quacky_batak — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:44:16 +0000

I’m keen to know how and where are you using Gemini.

Anthropic is clearly targeted to developers and OpenAI is general go to AI model. Who are the target demographic for Gemini models? ik that they are good and Flash is super impressive. but i’m curious

New comment by quacky_batak in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

quacky_batak — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:27:50 +0000

With such a huge leap, i’m confused why they didn’t call it Sonnet 5? As someone who uses Sonnet 4.5 for 95% tasks due to costs, i’m pretty excited to try 4.6 at the same price

Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

quacky_batak — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:46:30 +0000

Article URL: https://apoorv.page/blogs/over-engineered-dnd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477961

Points: 99

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New comment by quacky_batak in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

quacky_batak — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:37:56 +0000

i like how Anthropic has positioned themselves as the true AI research company and donating “standards” like that.

Although Skills are just md files but it’s good to see them “donate” it.

There goal seems to be simple: Focus on coding and improving it. They’ve found a great niche and hopefully revenue generating business there.

OpenAI on the other hand doesn’t give me same vibes, they don’t seem very oriented. They’re playing catchup with both Google models and Anthropic

New comment by quacky_batak in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

quacky_batak — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:27:52 +0000

For the past week, I’m working on creating device with a screen to show my indian parents if i’m in a meeting or not. So they don’t trouble me and come in my room unannounced when im in a meeting.

It’s build using ESP32 and a small screen which shows On and Off and the time till meeting is over. I learnt Fusion 360 and designed a small snap fit case and got it 3d printed.

I have a small electron app running in my mac os system tray which connect to esp using BLE and it also checks if Mac Camera is in use (using Apple logs) and then communicate it with the device.

Calling it Door Frame. Had quite fun making it as i learnt 3d design, c++ code using Platform IO and other fun stuff. Even designed a small binary protocol to exchange data over BLE

New comment by quacky_batak in "Make any TypeScript function durable"

quacky_batak — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:20:35 +0000

i hate the new pattern of using these magic strings everywhere. “use workflow”, “use client”, etc etc.

I don’t like having custom bundler logic for my code.

Show HN: The browser can store offline files

quacky_batak — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:00:58 +0000

Article URL: https://offline-media-storage.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36479167

Points: 4

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Musixmatch launches a podcast platform driven by AI and community

quacky_batak — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:08:23 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/20/musixmatch-launches-a-podcast-platform-for-transcription-driven-by-ai-and-community/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289581

Points: 2

# Comments: 0