Hacker News: rounakdatta

New comment by rounakdatta in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

rounakdatta — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:09:26 +0000

https://rounak.taptappers.club/fitness - this is my personal site (recently re-designed). The Fitness page is the highlight. It's still WIP, so quite a number of things are blank.

PS: The entire thing is built using Claude Code.

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

rounakdatta — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:40:24 +0000

https://rounak.taptappers.club/fitness

I crunched Strava data (the Strava MCP project is incredible, and I ended up contributing to it!) and built myself this fitness hall of fame page (and also rejuvenated the remainder of the portfolio). Almost all of the stuff here is vibe coded, very happy how much I could achieve.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Google Antigravity"

rounakdatta — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:05:07 +0000

Vim mode isn't working, oh no!

New comment by rounakdatta in "Claude Code on the web"

rounakdatta — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:27:20 +0000

Now that this hosted CC is achieved, next up, I think scheduled workflows would be coming. For example, certain open-source repositories host data files scraped regularly from sources via scheduled GitHub Actions, that could be simplified.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Talking, like really talking to your dog"

rounakdatta — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:01:43 +0000

ElevenLabs says they've developed a model which can interpret dogs' bark.

Talking, like really talking to your dog

rounakdatta — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:01:43 +0000

Article URL: https://elevenlabs.io/text-to-bark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545726

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by rounakdatta in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

rounakdatta — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:28:37 +0000

Thank god it'll say "I use Claude btw", not leading to unnecessary text wars (and thereby loss of your valuable token credits).

New comment by rounakdatta in "ChatGPT Is Down"

rounakdatta — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:26:15 +0000

Somehow the Mac desktop app seems to be working.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone"

rounakdatta — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 04:12:08 +0000

Orthogonal question: Does bypassing of paywall somehow work for Substack? Can a solution like RealDebrid / SciHub, but for Substack exist?

New comment by rounakdatta in "TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop"

rounakdatta — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:16:27 +0000

Interesting, I've always resorted to using Google Lens via the phone for this purpose. And then using the "Copy to another device" feature of Chrome.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Atuin – Magical shell history"

rounakdatta — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:27:37 +0000

"she" you meant.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager"

rounakdatta — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:53:16 +0000

I've been using Firefly-III for over three years now. What I'm contemplating to write is a quick util which would auto-import transactions from my emails.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?"

rounakdatta — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:16:48 +0000

This. Very high-quality writeups. Also, one should read Roots of Progress newsletters - I found the signal:noise ratio extremely high for these two newsletters.

The former is more CS x economy. The latter is more Science x history x economy.

New comment by rounakdatta in ""Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models""

rounakdatta — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:38:24 +0000

Nerds pay attention nevertheless.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

rounakdatta — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:00:35 +0000

It's almost about time that Bartosz releases his next illustration, excited!

New comment by rounakdatta in "Typical CS dude checking his Georgia Tech admission 3 hours early"

rounakdatta — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:33:59 +0000

"Typical cs dude" happens to be the subset of "Typical techbro", so expected, lol.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Gemini AI"

rounakdatta — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 06:31:16 +0000

The answer Bard gave is not even very coherent. Very similar results with GPT-4V as well. This makes me very cusrious how exactly do these models "see". Are they intelligently following the route starting from one point all along, or are they just tracing it top-to-bottom-left-to-right? Seemingly, latter is the case.

I expected that the AI would be able to understand that say taking a right turn from a straight road to another sub-road definitely involves crossing (since I specified that one is running on the left of the road). And try answering along those lines.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Gemini AI"

rounakdatta — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:12:25 +0000

I just tried out a vision reasoning task: https://g.co/bard/share/e8ed970d1cd7 and it hallucinated. Hello Deepmind, are you taking notes?

New comment by rounakdatta in "Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy"

rounakdatta — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:38:27 +0000

This kind of tool should also be built-into the post-processing pipeline of paperless-ngx. Well-parsed markdowns would be better indexable for search.

New comment by rounakdatta in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

rounakdatta — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:43:10 +0000

> can capture a bigger slice of THE FUTURE History says that the future is actually written by the nerds and not the drumbeaters (ah read CXOs).

In all this drama, the deep work interruption of the nerds is the net loss (and effectively slight deceleration) for the future.