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quacky_batak··on Codex Micro
I like the teenage engineering style, but is that the hardware that they were stealing Apple secrets for?
quacky_batak··on Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it
I also discovered this while noticing my Mac was low on storage, I only clicked on cowork once and after deleting it from the folder i’m scared to open the cowork tab coz ik it’ll just fill up the space
quacky_batak··on Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes
This is an amazing project, alternative domain “the-indiex”
quacky_batak··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
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

quacky_batak··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
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
quacky_batak··on Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
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

quacky_batak··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
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

quacky_batak··on Make any TypeScript function durable
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.