rounakdatta
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:09AM (#46628297)
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.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:40AM (#46276789)
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.
Re:Google Antigravity
on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:05PM (#45968982)
Vim mode isn't working, oh no!
Re:Claude Code on the Web
on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @02:27AM (#45653029)
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.
Re:Talking, like really talking to your dog
on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:01AM (#43545727)
ElevenLabs says they've developed a model which can interpret dogs' bark.
Re:Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @01:28PM (#41916548)
Thank god it'll say "I use Claude btw", not leading to unnecessary text wars (and thereby loss of your valuable token credits).
Re:ChatGPT Is Down
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @05:26AM (#40572395)
Somehow the Mac desktop app seems to be working.
Re:Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
on Saturday April 13, 2024 @12:12AM (#40020427)
Orthogonal question: Does bypassing of paywall somehow work for Substack? Can a solution like RealDebrid / SciHub, but for Substack exist?
Re:TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
on Friday March 15, 2024 @02:16AM (#39712541)
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.
Re:Atuin – Magical Shell History
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:27AM (#39465280)
"she" you meant.
Re:Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:53AM (#39394708)
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.
Re:Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2...
on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:16AM (#38830035)
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.
Re:Cosma Shalizi on Attention and Transformers
on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:38AM (#38760129)
Nerds pay attention nevertheless.
Re:Mechanical Watch
on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:00AM (#38601714)
It's almost about time that Bartosz releases his next illustration, excited!
Re:Typical CS dude checking his Georgia Tech admission 3 hours early
on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:33AM (#38582703)
"Typical cs dude" happens to be the subset of "Typical techbro", so expected, lol.
Re:Gemini – Google DeepMind
on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:31AM (#38553495)
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.
Re:Gemini – Google DeepMind
on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:12AM (#38545810)
I just tried out a vision reasoning task: https://g.co/bard/share/e8ed970d1cd7 and it hallucinated. Hello Deepmind, are you taking notes?
Re:Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy
on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:38AM (#38485303)
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.
Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:43AM (#38344873)
> 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.
Re:Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io
on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:45AM (#38164089)
Given a very different paywall model for Substack, what exactly would work for bypassing their paywalls?
Wouldn't we always require a paid account to cache the HTML through (the SciHub model)?
Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?
on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:09AM (#38114584)
Been listening to Hardcore History recently - very very intriguing. Also, am a fan of a new video podcast by Amit Varma & Ajay Shah called [Everything is Everything](https://www.youtube.com/@amitvarma/featured). Note that latter can be a bit India-focussed at times.
Re:Show HN: Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring
on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:43AM (#37414851)
The one similar product I had come across is Kubeshark (https://github.com/kubeshark/kubeshark). But admittedly the eBPF way seems more performant theoretically (given you can afford to have a modern-enough kernel). I'm really excited to see how this project develops out.
The eBPF-mode of innovation is pretty exciting, truly a fresh lens to building software. I'm also following Akita Software - the company building an eBPF paradigm of monitoring.
Re:Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better
on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:31AM (#37121466)
Writing about what you learnt about in bite-sized flashcard systems also helps enormously.
Re:Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:19PM (#37023524)
It would also get awkward when you get an unexpected Slack message of "You told Jane that you'd take this point offline, make sure to actually continue the conversation".
At that point, the matrix would become completely inescapable ;)
Re:Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman
on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:04AM (#37021090)
Yes, although the transition from Docker to Podman would be seamless, the transition from the blogpost to HN wouldn't be :p
Re:Just Normal Web Things
on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:30AM (#37020331)
A very recent example of how "doing normal things" has been sabotaged in the ChatGPT app is the Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut to open the Dev Console. It now copies the last generated answer.
Re:Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager
on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:12PM (#36945751)
No please no. We have one LinkedIn, and that's enough pain to humanity.
Re:Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:16AM (#36889615)
Lol, we also end up tagging Mr Bean (https://github.com/bean) occasionally when discussing Spring @Bean annotations on a pull request, and forgetting to backtick it.