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New comment by primitivesuave in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

primitivesuave — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:18:24 +0000

Missing from the article - the hacker first compromised Resolv Lab's AWS account, took a private key from KMS that was used to control minting, then managed to extract $25 million into ETH before all protocol functions were suspended.

New comment by primitivesuave in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

primitivesuave — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:15:29 +0000

English is full of animal-based metaphors, and that's a pretty innocuous statement. "I herded everyone into a room" does not automatically imply that one perceives those people as animals.

New comment by primitivesuave in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

primitivesuave — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:30:02 +0000

The most telling sign of a human commenter is brevity.

Consequently, I hardly ever spend the time to write out long and detailed HN comments like I used to in the pre-LLM era. People nowadays have a much harder time believing that an Internet stranger is meticulously crafting a detailed and grammatically-airtight message to another Internet stranger without AI assistance.

New comment by primitivesuave in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

primitivesuave — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:44:43 +0000

The Puya PY32 series MCUs found in most vapes have 3kb of RAM and 24kb of ROM, whereas Doom requires at least 4MB of RAM. Assuming Moore's law also applies to the computing power inside a disposable vape, we should be seeing that post in around a decade :)

New comment by primitivesuave in "STFU"

primitivesuave — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:45:37 +0000

The fact that this occurred in Bombay is important context. In India, the culture amongst older people is to have a clear sense of where you fit in the hierarchy. You might be verbally abusive to those who you consider below you, but you will remain silent and deferent to those who are considered economically/socially superior. This manifests as a certain class of people who have never been called out on any of their obnoxious behavior, because their economic/social status has shielded them from criticism for their entire lives. Meanwhile a majority of society is perfectly accustomed to being verbally abused, to the point where someone like me saying "please" and "thank you" makes it clear that I am of the Indian diaspora.

By the way, I've noticed that the younger crowd in India leans much more toward egalitarianism and tends to reject bizarre social constructs like caste. The fact that a young guy also thought of this solution speaks to their ingenuity as well.

New comment by primitivesuave in "Epic sues multiple health data providers, alleging fraudlent sale of health data"

primitivesuave — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:51:40 +0000

I wouldn't call CareQuality a "data broker" as much as it is an interoperability framework. It's essentially a big distributed system of participants who agree to instantly share patient records - CareQuality maintains a central list of participants and the URLs where they can be reached. Since the technical requirements to actually participate in this network are fairly complex (far more than a hospital IT can or should manage), there are companies like Health Gorilla which serve as QHINs (Qualified Health Information Networks) which query the network on behalf of their customers (i.e. doctors engaging in some form of care).

There are many gray areas to this - for example, a value-based care program or ACO can pull records en masse, for the purpose of "care coordination" (i.e. checking if a particular patient requires intervention). However, what Health Gorilla has done is certainly no gray area as some articles on this matter suggest - if the allegations are true, then they have engaged in outright criminal behavior along with their co-conspirators (RavillaMed, LlamaLab, and others). Thankfully, this situation has completely eroded all trust in Health Gorilla and prompted a massive customer exodus.

New Lawsuit Shows Medical Privacy Could Be at Risk

primitivesuave — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicahunter-hart/2026/01/15/your-medical-privacy-could-be-at-risk-a-new-lawsuit-shows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635452

Points: 2

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New comment by primitivesuave in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

primitivesuave — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:09:56 +0000

If this actually happens, get ready for an avalanche of AI-generated garbage code that exists for the sole purpose of boosting a scammer's metrics, so they can maximize their slice of the pie with the minimum amount of effort. Spotify is dealing with this same issue around AI-generated music [1].

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2024/09/08/man-charg...

Epic vs. Health Gorilla: A New Fight Begins

primitivesuave — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:19:11 +0000

Article URL: https://healthapiguy.substack.com/p/epic-v-health-gorilla-a-new-fight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609122

Points: 9

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Epic accuses Health Gorilla of improperly accessing medical records

primitivesuave — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:47:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.channel3000.com/news/epic-accuses-silicon-valley-based-network-of-allowing-improper-access-to-medical-records/article_ffa9a5ba-f310-4f88-a67d-fdba59f0abcf.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608675

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by primitivesuave in "The Concise TypeScript Book"

primitivesuave — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:58:38 +0000

Thank you for the excellent feedback. I had this realization a while back that I'm a mobile user during "consumption" (e.g. browsing HN late at night), but a desktop user for "production" - now I see how it applies to this side project as well. Also, I still need to figure out some React performance issues which make it virtually unusable on pre-2020 machines :(

This comment actually invigorated me to try the site from my phone and improve the experience, so I sincerely thank you for the motivation.

New comment by primitivesuave in "The Concise TypeScript Book"

primitivesuave — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:25:44 +0000

I love the Typescript handbook, but wanted the examples to be "runnable". It turns out that the TypeScript compiler runs pretty fast in the browser for trivial code snippets, so I threw together https://ts.coach (TypeScript handbook with code examples that execute in the browser + instant type checking)

New comment by primitivesuave in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

primitivesuave — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:43:16 +0000

You are effectively saying that the indiscriminate slaughter of the Japanese civilian population was justified, due to the actions of a few Japanese leaders. In my opinion, there is no justification for violence against civilians.

Notice that we have a holiday for MLK, and Indians have a holiday to celebrate Gandhi. Something deep inside all of us knows that pacifism is “correct”.

New comment by primitivesuave in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

primitivesuave — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:31:24 +0000

In my reply above, I evoked the memory of Jeanette Rankin, who was the lone dissenting vote against the Pacific War after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (somewhat analogous to the October 7th attack).

It is a natural human tendency to desire that the people who inflict pain upon others to also feel pain inflicted upon them. This has been the human condition since ancient times, and yet the most revered figures in human history have been the pacifists who consistently advocate against violence (e.g. Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Gandhi, MLK, etc).

New comment by primitivesuave in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

primitivesuave — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:19:14 +0000

My point equally applies to everyone who condones violence to achieve some end goal. Jeanette Rankin was vilified for her lone dissenting vote against war, yet decades later she is among the few of her contemporaries to have a statue in the Capitol to honor her dedication to pacifism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin

New comment by primitivesuave in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

primitivesuave — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:08:59 +0000

Completely agree with you on this. It will be an unfortunate exercise for future historians to look back on this time, crunch through the enormous amount of data with their quantum computers, and end up realizing just how many people were willing to condone the slaughter of innocent civilians.

New comment by primitivesuave in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

primitivesuave — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:36:45 +0000

Public opinion on Amjad shifted quite a bit in 2021 when he threatened to sue a former intern for his open-source project.

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

New comment by primitivesuave in "Torch.ts – building PyTorch in TypeScript from scratch to learn"

primitivesuave — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:28:51 +0000

Thanks for sharing! I used to teach students to build ML algorithms from scratch (everything from Markov chains to multilayer perceptrons and convolution neural networks) - I rewrote some of my notes in TypeScript here:

1. https://github.com/keshavsaharia/numbers/blob/dev/lib/nn/neu...

2. https://github.com/keshavsaharia/numbers/blob/dev/lib/cnn/cn... (still working on the visualization)

Hope you find these useful in your own learning journey!

New comment by primitivesuave in "Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing"

primitivesuave — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:10:54 +0000

Absolutely - the channel is called "Dolton Documentaries" on YouTube. I'll definitely check out the features you mentioned, and am super excited to see where this goes!

New comment by primitivesuave in "Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing"

primitivesuave — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:00:31 +0000

Last year, I made a YouTube documentary series showcasing the prolific corruption in a small city government. I downloaded all the city government meetings, used Whisper to transcribe them, and then set up a basic RAG so I could query across a decade of committee meetings (around 1 TB of video). Once I got the timestamps that I'm interested in, I then have to embark on a tedious manual process of locating the file, cutting out a few seconds/minutes from a multi-hour video, and then order all the clips into a cohesive narrative.

These seem like problems that LLMs are especially well-suited for. I might have spent a fraction of the time if there was some system that could "index" my content library, and intelligently pull relevant clips into a cohesive storyline.

I also spent an ungodly amount of time on animations - it felt like "1 hour of work for 1 minute of animation". I would gladly pay for a tool which reduces the time investment required to be a citizen documentarian.