Hacker News: quantumwoke

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?

New comment by quantumwoke in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

quantumwoke — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:34:25 +0000

As my medico wife explained it to me, you have about 1 minute after your heart stops before you start having permanent brain damage. Unless you live inside a hospital your risk of surviving a major heart attack at home is less than 20% at the best of times (and in fact seems to be about 10% or less in USA on average on some quick research).

New comment by quantumwoke in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

quantumwoke — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:36:04 +0000

Possibly. Would be better if the company name wasn't obscured from the post.

New comment by quantumwoke in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

quantumwoke — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:16:04 +0000

ISPs that host illegal content can indeed be outside the risk tolerance of a financial services company. The blog post is very careful to say "one of our companies" and censor the name of it on screenshots so I'll be interested to see what it is.

New comment by quantumwoke in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

quantumwoke — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:48:04 +0000

I don't agree with those policies but it's a possible reason for a financial services business to break a relationship if they discover incidentally that this guys business is breaking the law. Changes the blog post completely and the business info should have been included.

As a heuristic, using TransferWise is traditionally associated with Russian money laundering scams.

New comment by quantumwoke in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

quantumwoke — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:32:25 +0000

Nowhere in this blog does it mention what the business actually does, which is always a red flag. I've seen plenty of stripe bashing posts on HN that end up with the business being in newsletter scams or adult content.

New comment by quantumwoke in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

quantumwoke — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:47:48 +0000

I will never trust OneDrive with any files after it silently deleted thousands of my files while syncing - I hit the hidden maximum number of files limit and then it permanently deleted the remaining files with no warning.