Hacker News: quantumwoke

New comment by quantumwoke in "Claude Fable 5"

quantumwoke — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:40:49 +0000

Variations of this comment have been posted for over a year. The pelican has now morphed into part of HN culture rather than a legitimate benchmark, but it's still valuable as a meme.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M"

quantumwoke — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:30:12 +0000

Exactly my experience. I don't even use em dashes as a signal these days, the sentence structure is enough.

New comment by quantumwoke in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

quantumwoke — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:35:40 +0000

This is terrifying, but I couldn't help myself from frustration at the LLM writing that only worsened over the course of the post. Bloggers, it's not subtle. Please, stop, or at least disclose it.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

quantumwoke — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:05:50 +0000

It's not just transcribing text, there is also a post processing step to turn it from an interview transcript into an actionable summary.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

quantumwoke — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:04:35 +0000

A pretty insightful viewpoint I heard recently from a doctor friend: doctors and hospitals believe that only a corporation could possibly implement this, so they fall into the SaaS trap and lose data sovereignty.

Under the hood, a lot of the companies are Llama or Gemma wrappers connected to whisper.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

quantumwoke — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:02:27 +0000

It's crazy that the hospitals justify this approach. The major scribes are literally connecting Llama to Whisper and that's it.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages"

quantumwoke — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:53:41 +0000

It's sad that I didn't see any languages on your website from Australia, where there are hundreds of languages that need translating.

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

quantumwoke — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://strn.cat/w/articles/spacetime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332630

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by quantumwoke in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

quantumwoke — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:57:35 +0000

There's a lot of people in this thread that don't seem to have caught up with the fact that AMD has worked very hard on their cuda translation layer and for the most part it just works now, you can build cuda projects on amd just fine on modern hardware/software.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

quantumwoke — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:53:12 +0000

Can you give some examples of immune overreach that are improved?

New comment by quantumwoke in "Vouch"

quantumwoke — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:28:00 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961

New comment by quantumwoke in "I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor"

quantumwoke — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:14:37 +0000

Those efforts were for diseases without treatment. But, prolactinomas already have treatment (surgery plus medication). I always ask myself what is the desired outcome from research effort - in this case it seems to be an attempt to cure/totally eradicate a prolactinoma, which would require hundreds of millions of dollars and custom medication (probably immune checkpoint inhibitors) to do, and this disease already has a treatment available.

New comment by quantumwoke in "I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor"

quantumwoke — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:13:10 +0000

I'm confused by this post because it seems like his partner got best therapy possible with two surgeries followed by medications without going blind or having other major hormonal issues which can happen after surgery. As correctly stated in this thread prolactinomas aren't a death sentence or even (technically) a brain tumour, and the major risks have been avoided so far. What exactly is being accomplished by a VC deeply researching this case beyond satisfying the valid desire to help your life partner?

New comment by quantumwoke in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

quantumwoke — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:25:15 +0000

There are actually a lot of freely available medical articles on PubMed. Agree about the proliferation of lower quality journals and articles necessitating manual restrictions on citations.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

quantumwoke — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:32:38 +0000

It's crazy to me that somewhere along the way we lost physical media as a reference point. Journals and YouTube can be good sources of information, but unless heavily confined to high quality information current AI is not able to judge citation quality to come up with good recommendations. The synthesis of real world medical experience is often collated in medical textbooks and yet AI doesn't cite them nearly as much as it should.

Ask HN: What are some home office essentials?

quantumwoke — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:01:51 +0000

I recently started full time WFH and want to buy some big ticket items for my home office. It's currently very spartan. The budget is about $20,000. What should I get beyond the obvious pc upgrades?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354632

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by quantumwoke in "Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows"

quantumwoke — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:00:10 +0000

I think this summary is reductive, because it ignores the surprisingly dense layers of middle management in hospitals and clinics that are paid more than the medical professionals (and even that ignores external middle managers like PBMs etc).

New comment by quantumwoke in "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"

quantumwoke — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:32:12 +0000

Nope: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1p0huk5/pebble_rebb...

New comment by quantumwoke in "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"

quantumwoke — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:30:44 +0000

For some additional context, the screenshotted Rebble board member has commented here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1p0huk5/pebble_rebb...

Looks like they were not consulted by Eric before this post.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"

quantumwoke — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:24:10 +0000

Developer time?