<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nmitchko</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nmitchko</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 08:48:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nmitchko" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A fantastically simple solution to improving algorithms, I wish I had this years ago in activation engineering: <a href="https://blog.n.ichol.ai/llm-activation-engineering-an-easy-foray" rel="nofollow">https://blog.n.ichol.ai/llm-activation-engineering-an-easy-f...</a><p>How do I access AlphaEvolve?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 18:32:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053014</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Peptides: where to begin?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used those two in combination to fix pain after 3x surgeries to repair a torn pec + infection. They work and helped me heal from being at a 3/10 constant pain  down to baseline.<p>Not something I would do at any point for fun. But anecdotally, it's materially better than other alternatives offered/available.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:26:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675063</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can someone make a startup that allows me to do this as an individual?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167542</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In case anyone wants to do this themselves, check out the pipeline here: <a href="https://github.com/isc-nmitchko/iris-document-search" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/isc-nmitchko/iris-document-search</a><p>Colnomic and nvidia models are great for embedding images and MUVERA can transform those to 1D vectors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:36:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544055</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Next steps for AI in general:<p><pre><code>  - additional modalities
  - Faster FPS (inferences per second)
  - Reaction time tuning (latency vs quality tradeoff) for visual and audio inputs/outputs
  - built-in planning modules in the architecture (think premotor frontal lobe)
  - time awareness during inference (towards an always inferring / always learning architecture)</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:57:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45338664</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45338664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45338664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No other models that are public worth comparing to... Hippocratic advertises good benchmarks but that might be marketing fluff.<p>Have you checked out dataset building with nemotron? The nemotron synthetic data builder is quite powerful.<p>Moreso, check out model merging. It's possible if you merge some of your model against llama3.1 base it may perform much better.<p>Check out max labonne's work on hugging face</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:59:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884245</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting they don't compare to open-bio. Page 7 charts are quite weak.<p><a href="https://huggingface.co/aaditya/Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/aaditya/Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:37:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879345</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Show HN: We built pitchpilot, an AI synthesizer to tailor presentations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're excited to share pitchpilot with the HN community. Our beta users have found the embedded audio particularly useful for enterprise sharing. We're keen to keep improving, and our mission is to make communication easier.<p>In the roadmap is adding video export, digital twin presentations, and real-time presentations. We don't wrap a public LLM, so we don't share any data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:35:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986395</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: We built pitchpilot, an AI synthesizer to tailor presentations]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey HN,<p>We’re Nick and Roman. We’re solutions engineers who spend a lot of time prepping for and delivering product presentations and demos. We realized that we were spending too much time tailoring scripts for our client presentations and sales demos, practicing our pitch and (sometimes) nailing our delivery.<p>So we built pitchpilot to save time customizing the pitch and adding the right voice to it. You can also download and share your presentation in no time.<p>We hope this tool will be as useful for you as it is for us. Let us know what you (don’t) like and how you use it for work, fun, etc.<p>Cheers, Team pitchpilot</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986256">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986256</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:21:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://pitchpilot.xyz</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "US intelligence community is embracing generative AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given that Generative AI can now read brain scans [1] and this, I wonder how far away we are from "you thought negatively about something, the authorities are on their way".<p>[1] -- <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v3" rel="nofollow">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v3</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:09:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898900</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tin-foil hat time:<p>1. First, models will predict pollution. The outcomes will help shape urban policy. But these won't solve crime or stop people from driving.<p>2. Second, models will predict individual behavior and track person level emissions. The outcomes will force behavior changes, mostly freedom limiting.<p>3. Third, and finally, models will predict thoughts. The the thought of driving instead of walking might trigger a response.<p>It's a slippery slope and we need to draw a line between prediction and policy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:47:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584707</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does this compare to ehealthexchange or other qhins that have many years of experience and charge lower costs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 18:07:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457902</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Qwen1.5-110B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It truly feels like the space race in terms of building LLMs right now. Question is, who lands on the moon first?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:48:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168793</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Show HN: NeuralFlow – Visualize the intermediate output of Mistral 7B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me of the matrix movie scene when they look at the encrypted thoughts of the matrix.<p><a href="https://cdn.swisscows.com/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F04%2F34%2F8b%2F04348bbadef33a7a88a8ea11ce1f0029--terminal-matrix.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.swisscows.com/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.c...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:09:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382221</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great work, will try this tonight.<p>Only question, why do you name variables with the λ symbol?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:35:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125939</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>BTC =/= crypto at large.<p>Despite all the bad press, shady exchanges, bubbles and busts, a large amount of BTC owners don't sell, and that alone will drive it's price up. Other cryptos, I can't speak for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:23:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930960</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>California politicians confused why large companies continue to mass-migrate to Texas</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904511</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately, the NSA & NIST most likely is recommending a quantum-proof security that they've developed cryptanalysis against, either through high q-bit proprietary technology or specialized de-latticing algorithms .<p>The NSA is very good at math, so I'm be thoroughly surprised if this analysis was error by mistake rather than error through intent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 20:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757264</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With all we see around cancer, it's time to study fembendazole and other anti-tubulins seriously.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:59:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382346</link><dc:creator>nmitchko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nmitchko in "A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For each step in the article:<p>1. You should really download the huggingface hosted model.<p>2. Why convert the model if meta already hosts it here: <a href="https://huggingface.co/meta-llama" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://huggingface.co/meta-llama</a><p>3. This step completely glossed over the hardware requirements. Doesn't explain any of the instructions needed in the finetuning process.<p>4. "Now run the model". What? What about the model precision, hosting, standard open source tools, etc,etc...</p>
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