Hacker News: maz1b

New comment by maz1b in "Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI"

maz1b — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:25:42 +0000

Didn't they just recently invest in them? Curious about their strategy, considering NVIDIA already does Nemotron and i think diffusion models as well.

New comment by maz1b in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

maz1b — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:07:48 +0000

Wow, the rate of improvements in the AI era is staggering.

GDPval-AA v2.1 as of now: 1620

GDPval-AA v2.1 for Haiku 4.5: 735

The 100k tokens pricing makes sense, looks to be a hedge against OpenAI's decisions API and Jev or its open source alternatives that are springing up.

Nice release, congrats to Anthropic.

New comment by maz1b in "Mistral Large 4"

maz1b — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:24:24 +0000

I'm glad they're keeping at it!

New comment by maz1b in "Grok 4.7"

maz1b — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:52:41 +0000

Either way, the fact that xAI or SpaceXAI or whatever the name is, I can commend the team behind it on their rapid ascent and progress by being close and or on the frontier in several respects.

New comment by maz1b in "OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M"

maz1b — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:29:08 +0000

OpenAI really going after ex Apple people who start new companies or startups, eh? First Ive and now the duo behind Portrait mode.

Will be interesting to see how the legal battle plays out as well.

New comment by maz1b in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

maz1b — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:56:17 +0000

Working on MedAngle, the world's first Super App for current and future doctors.

100k+ users, 150m+ questions solved, 60b seconds of smarter studying, MedGPT, MedAgent, and everything medical/dental students need in one place along with young doctors who have recently graduated

New comment by maz1b in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"

maz1b — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:08:51 +0000

I could be mistaken, but wasn't Mistral openly championing themselves as a company and EU option that wouldn't do this/didn't do this?

New comment by maz1b in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"

maz1b — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:13:33 +0000

Just wanted to say that the rhabdo part mentioned on your site was really impressive! Speaking as a medical doctor and full stack engineer myself.

New comment by maz1b in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

maz1b — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:10:40 +0000

How does this compare to 4?

New comment by maz1b in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

maz1b — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:58:38 +0000

I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Agentic AI Super App for medical and dental school. You can think of it as literally everything one would need from day one of admission till graduation day as a doctor.

I myself am the first medical doctor and full stack engineer in the history of my country (250 million), graduated as a doctor at age 25, and we have over 100+ users [all of which are medical/dental students and doctors], 10s of billions of seconds studying smarter, hundreds of millions of questions solved, and more.

Our Super App has subsystems including MedGPT, MedAgent, Spaci (our own take on spaced repetition) and much more.

We're bootstrapped, and continuing to scale. If you are in medical school or know someone who is, please reach out!

https://medangle.com

New comment by maz1b in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

maz1b — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:18:39 +0000

Wow. Makes me see OpenAI in an entirely different light.

New comment by maz1b in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

maz1b — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:11:26 +0000

Wow, that's a pretty massive decrease in latency, which should unlock some use cases, but the linked web page doesn't exactly make it straightforward to understand the differences between the models.

However, based off my personal experiences with general images models, Google in my opinion is the best for my workflows. Granted, I haven't tried far-east providers yet.

What does everyone else think?

New comment by maz1b in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

maz1b — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:56:43 +0000

Pretty huge move. Google and their TPUs are looking infinitely more prescient as I think they are on their 7th generation, along with the offshoots it inspired like the LPU and even others, perhaps like Cerebras and their Wafer Scale Engine.

However, based off first impressions, it seems like this is meant for inference side, and not training, which is also an interesting choice.

New comment by maz1b in "Midjourney Medical"

maz1b — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:27:55 +0000

This made me spit my coffee out! Thanks for helping me start my day with a laugh. No comment otherwise :-P

New comment by maz1b in "Midjourney Medical"

maz1b — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:44:40 +0000

I had to check the date after seeing the headline, and again after opening the page. Thought it was April Fools.

Regardless, as a doctor and full stack engineer, I'm looking forward to learning more about their methodologies, their approaches, but I don't think this is going to be displacing MRIs or remotely close, based off the cursory initial glance. If their vision is to be able to provide end users with more actionable data with some kind of "low fidelity" medical imaging data that is somewhere above zero and or standard imaging and high fidelity modalities like CT/MRI, then this could be somewhat interesting.

Not a radiologist and not medical advice. Just my two cents.

New comment by maz1b in "Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small"

maz1b — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:48:17 +0000

They've done multiple "evaluations" by third parties, but still, it seems that they aren't being fully transparent. I think the approach is quite interesting and novel, but this feels like deja vu.

I get why they aren't disclosing all the details, but it seems more hype-train-esque to me for this moment. I don't disagree that this could be big.

New comment by maz1b in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

maz1b — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:35:30 +0000

I've always wondered what that would be like. A fleet of 50 relatively modern flagship smartphones, wiped and retrofitted software wise to act as a homogeneous server, running ubuntu or centos or fedora, something like that.

New comment by maz1b in "How is Groq raising more money?"

maz1b — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:00:10 +0000

Deals like these are quite rare, would be nice to know more about how the funding worked, but for customers, what are they doing? Total silence from Groq for a very long time now.

New comment by maz1b in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

maz1b — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:40:47 +0000

I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Agentic AI Super App for premed, medical, and dental schools and recent graduates - young doctors.

MedAngle is literally everything one could need, personalized to their curriculum across 4-6 years of medical school. Quizzes, videos, notes, flashcards, reminders, scheduling, performance, search, and more.

Our Super App is comprised of MedGPT + MedAgent + Spaci (futuristic spaced repetition), which serve as layers over our massive collection of features such as the Smart Suite, Learning Library, Clinical Corner, Tested Tools and more.

100k+ users, 10s of billions of seconds spent studying smarter, invite only. Bootstrapped, growing nicely. I lead a team of top medical students and doctors.

New comment by maz1b in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

maz1b — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:22:34 +0000

Not a headline I ever thought I would see. Kinda crazy how meme stocks and retail hype has led to this.