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New comment by quantumwoke in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

quantumwoke — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:37:58 +0000

As explained to me, the notes are verbose and do not focus on actionable parts of the consultation. Doctors often have to add a lot of missing detail for legal reasons and if they had to tweak the output through multiple LLMs they would have even less time for their consults.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

quantumwoke — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:13:31 +0000

Not for code, but my wife is a doctor and has gone from using AI scribes back to manually typing out notes and has multiple friends who've done the same. Turns out the gains were eroded by having to check the work and turn verbose prose into an actual note.

New comment by quantumwoke in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

quantumwoke — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:41:24 +0000

Feels like Fable's edge ended up just being long horizon task scaling, which post-training seems to achieve as seen here. Wonder what the next frontier is? Improvement in specialised tasks or computer use?

New comment by quantumwoke in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

quantumwoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:24:07 +0000

Just a small meta note: most of the comments in this thread appear to be posting their own codebase (typically AI-generated) that accomplishes the same goal. It's interesting that this problem is simultaneously in high demand and yet considered trivial enough to vibe code per-user solutions to it.

New comment by quantumwoke in "Muse Spark 1.1"

quantumwoke — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:57:32 +0000

It's his job, and this is advertising (he is very good at native advertising on HN).

New comment by quantumwoke in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

quantumwoke — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:31:19 +0000

And what about the rest of the world? I can't imagine US partners will abide this for long.

New comment by quantumwoke in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

quantumwoke — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:10:19 +0000

This is for the preview period, but it's not a good sign. Opus 4.8 may be the last frontier model available to the masses...

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?