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rounakdattaon Ask HN: Share your personal website

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.

rounakdattaon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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.

rounakdattaon Google Antigravity

Vim mode isn't working, oh no!

rounakdattaon Claude Code on the web

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.

rounakdattaon Talking, like really talking to your dog

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

rounakdattaon Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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

rounakdattaon ChatGPT Is Down

Somehow the Mac desktop app seems to be working.

rounakdattaon Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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

rounakdattaon TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop

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.

rounakdattaon Atuin – Magical shell history

"she" you meant.

rounakdattaon Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

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.

rounakdattaon Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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.

rounakdattaon "Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"

Nerds pay attention nevertheless.

rounakdattaon Mechanical Watch (2022)

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

rounakdattaon Typical CS dude checking his Georgia Tech admission 3 hours early

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

rounakdattaon Gemini AI

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.

rounakdattaon Gemini AI

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

rounakdattaon Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy

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.

rounakdattaon Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

> 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.

rounakdattaon Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

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)?

rounakdattaon Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?

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.

rounakdattaon Show HN: Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring

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.

rounakdattaon Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better

Writing about what you learnt about in bite-sized flashcard systems also helps enormously.

rounakdattaon Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

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 ;)

rounakdattaon Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman

Yes, although the transition from Docker to Podman would be seamless, the transition from the blogpost to HN wouldn't be :p

rounakdattaon Just normal web things

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.

rounakdattaon Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

No please no. We have one LinkedIn, and that's enough pain to humanity.

rounakdattaon Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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.

rounakdattaon Suspicious deaths of Russian elites within the country since the war started

Since the Russia-Ukraine war, there seems to be (expectedly) burying of dissent. I recently read the book Red Roulette where the author gave a first-hand narration of how elites used to disappear to nowhere in China (not necessarily dead). The pattern continues to repeat in Russia, lethally.

rounakdattaon Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

You're correct, but consider these kind of solutions to be more of a hobbyist-inclined. Be prepared to continue investing into maintenance occasionally (and somewhat erratically, because Immich does bring in breaking changes).

Another thing to keep in mind is that - the server you get for $250 would also allow you to deploy many other apps (I have a similar spec, and deploy ~20 apps). So, net-net if the setup brings you happiness and ROI (in any form at all), it is worth investing!