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New comment by harigov in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

harigov — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:30:54 +0000

ViyaMD | Staff Software Engineer, Staff ML Engineer | SF Bay Area | ONSITE

ViyaMD is building a physician-grade clinical intelligence platform for legal, insurance, and healthcare teams. We analyze large, messy medical record sets and turn them into clinically accurate timelines, reasoning, and insights in minutes.

We’re hiring for two senior roles:

# Staff Software Engineer: Own core product and platform systems: medical record ingestion, document understanding pipelines, backend/data infrastructure, clinical workflow, and production reliability.

We’re looking for:

* 5–8+ years of software engineering experience

* Strong Python/Typescript/backend engineering skills

* Experience with distributed systems, data-intensive apps, or large-scale document processing

* Ability to own ambiguous problems from architecture through production

* Interest in healthcare, clinical data, legal-tech, or AI products

# Staff ML Engineer: Own how ViyaMD evaluates and improves its clinical AI: define eval metrics, run model/agent evaluations, improve prompts and workflows, and close the loop through better retrieval, agentic systems, and fine-tuned models.

We’re looking for:

* 5–8+ years of professional experience

* Strong hands-on AI/ML evaluation experience

* Experience with LLMs, RAG, agents, fine-tuning, or applied ML systems

* Fluency in Python

* Healthcare or clinical experience is a strong plus, but not required

We’re especially excited about people who want to set the technical bar, work close to real users and data, and build AI systems that must be accurate and trusted in high-stakes domains.

You'd work directly with our founding team, with real influence over how we build. Comp: competitive salary, meaningful early-stage equity, and benefits. Email me at hari AT viyamd.com, if you're interested.

New comment by harigov in "Probiotics can support the effect of antidepressants"

harigov — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:01:12 +0000

I have always had a significant mood boost from taking probiotics - either from food or as supplements. Some forms of probiotics make me overly happy to the point that it is detrimental to my life. Recently I started taking these probiotics - seed.com - and find them reasonably balanced. You will see improved mood and sleep for a few days but then not much - not sure why it doesn't persist. I am still continuing with these because they seem to be helping with other digestive issues. I also notice way more mood improvement when eating Sauerkraut so try to eat a couple of tablespoons of it everyday. I have experimented enough with microbiome related stuff that I am fully convinced they play a major role in ones health (including mood and energy). That said, there is way more to it than simply the species of bacteria. Where those bacteria are located in the gut (small or large intestine or colon), what other species are there, your genetics, your diet, lifestyle, your psyche, etc., all play a part in their functioning. I wish there was a more "big-data" approach to figuring out things than researching one species at a time.

New comment by harigov in "IPFS Support in Brave"

harigov — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:53:02 +0000

Brave is one of my favorite new software of 2020. I love how fast it loads web pages and removes ads. More importantly it’s a huge step forward in terms of fixing web. I am very excited about this Ipfs support. If they also integrate openbazaar with some decentralized currency , that would be incredible!

nit - can you please fix the icon? The color and icon undersell Brave by a huge margin.

New comment by harigov in "U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers"

harigov — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:58:05 +0000

They should have done this when there were far fewer cases. It was really surprising to hear that you don’t need any tests or quarantining when you travel from other countries. Better late than never, I guess.

New comment by harigov in "'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out"

harigov — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 04:33:28 +0000

I never had problems with exercise motivation so I don’t need someone to keep me accountable but I absolutely dread pushing myself and lifting more weight. Fitness apps with pretty graphs help a bit but what helps me the most is to have some goals like “squat X lbs by the end of year”. It seems to help so far!

Your suggestion about making exercise a habit is spot on. Just do it as a routine without even thinking and enjoy the rewards to do important things.

New comment by harigov in "Ask HN: What will become possible by 2025 in your field of expertise?"

harigov — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:32:01 +0000

Full self-driving car that can operate using just cameras on a variety of weather conditions (still limited)

New comment by harigov in "Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets"

harigov — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 06:09:03 +0000

I always thought that the Indian population is at a disastrous proportions but I saw this website recently that compared size of a country with another country - https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/indi...

It seems like India is 9 times the size of Japan and 10 times the population. It's high but its not unmanageably high for a fertile piece of land with good weather for significant part of the year.

All your arguments about political system incapable of fixing problems quickly still stand though.

New comment by harigov in "Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta"

harigov — Wed, 08 May 2019 02:09:38 +0000

Can anyone comment on the reliability/availability of these pods?

New comment by harigov in "AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist"

harigov — Fri, 03 May 2019 01:56:31 +0000

They can use this technology to generate a model to fit a particular user profile. Filter bubbles are going to get even better! Or maybe they can ask user to upload his photo and feed that as a prior to the model so it can generate visuals of that person wearing different dresses. That would be cool!

New comment by harigov in "MuseNet"

harigov — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:50:20 +0000

What makes you think that a computer that can generate music cannot also generate a background for the "creator" of that music? It can give you all the stories that touch our hearts even more so than we can imagine.

New comment by harigov in "We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage"

harigov — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:10:32 +0000

Did you ever imagine if both ends of the spectrum are true? Maybe there is a talent shortage and maybe there are companies trying to get cheap labor from abroad. We are a reasonable sized company trying to recruit people with advanced skills. Finding talent that includes large number of H1B's is hard on its own. Forget finding talent that excludes 95% of the world (aka H1B's). Most of the candidates I get to interview are usually immigrants. Why? I don't know. We have zero motivation to hire immigrants specifically. We pay way higher than an average company and are more interested in talented candidates than saving money. It's just that immigrants are the ones with the skills that we need.

Also, the notion that H1b's are cheap is not always true. With the added costs of filing H1b visa and green card, the true costs are much higher, especially in a cutting edge industry.

New comment by harigov in "Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism"

harigov — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 22:34:20 +0000

Have you tried helminthic therapy by any chance? Also would you care to share your current treatment protocol? I am in a similar position with lots of dietary allergies and I am considering doing helminthic therapy because it seems to have a lot of success stories.

New comment by harigov in "I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

harigov — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:47:53 +0000

I am on H1b visa and would like to take a break of few months. Is there a way to do that without going out of the country or losing my visa?

New comment by harigov in "Zora, the Robot Caregiver"

harigov — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:41:02 +0000

What kind of a social/economic system makes us invest in this when there are billions of malnourished people willing to do something like this for close to free? Why is it that we focus so much on engineering when a lot of problems can potentially be solved using better social and political policies.

New comment by harigov in "Be Afraid of Economic 'Bigness'"

harigov — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:31:42 +0000

I don't think this is something that will be addressed anytime soon, no matter how important of a problem someone considers this to be. With large Chinese corporations in the competition, breaking companies into smaller companies isn't in the best interest of US (or so I believe).

New comment by harigov in "China used Huawei to hack network, says report"

harigov — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:27:26 +0000

But do you also realize where you are getting all your news about China from?

New comment by harigov in "Honda-Waymo Talks Are Said to Have Faltered on Tech Access"

harigov — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:35:15 +0000

It seems to me that Waymo is following a model similar to Android albeit charging for it instead of giving it away for free. Anyone with basic understanding of technology knows that its not a sustainable model, in the long term. I wouldn't blame Honda for thinking for itself.

New comment by harigov in "Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes"

harigov — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:46:15 +0000

There are devices that allow you test gluten contamination in your food. If you can validate that your food is celiac safe, consider me a customer!

New comment by harigov in "Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes"

harigov — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:46:22 +0000

I think the food is slightly overpriced but I would be willing to pay for high quality organic food. However, my key concern is how you deal with allergens. I am very sensitive to certain food items like gluten and dairy which makes it hard for me to find food when I travel. If you can handle food contamination and provide organic gluten/dairy free food, consider me a customer. I can totally see myself buying these for my trips.

BTW, when I say gluten and dairy free, I am talking about celiac friendly food. You need to ensure that gluten content is below 20 PPM.

New comment by harigov in "Wanted: ‘Lost Einsteins.’ Please Apply"

harigov — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:09:55 +0000

If you are able to think through this, this fund is not for you. As mentioned in OP's comment, they are targeting folks who aren't even sure if they are building a company, just based on their 'potential'. It is a risky endeavor and from that perspective, the equity portion is justified. For someone who has access to this advice and support, it's not worth it. But for those who don't, this is Godsent.