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New comment by russellpekala in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)"

russellpekala — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:52:26 +0000

Software is eating the world but healthcare is eating the economy. And I'm eating a Yuzu.

New comment by russellpekala in "Why doctors hate their computers (2018)"

russellpekala — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:49:55 +0000

Check out this blog for the best summary of why data has hurt medicine and insurance https://yuzu.health/blog/ai-will-not-fix-healthcare-admin.

The company Yuzu is hiring too. Worth reaching out if you care about how to fix this issue.

New comment by russellpekala in "Svelte 5 Released"

russellpekala — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:11:16 +0000

If you like Svelte, Yuzu Health is hiring developers to work in Svelte in New York City. https://yuzu.health/careers/senior-software-engineer

Seems like the number of companies using Svelte in production is growing but still not super high.

Proof of Work in Healthcare Administration

russellpekala — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:51:24 +0000

Article URL: https://vienna.earth/plate/russell/ai-cannot-fix-healthcare

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41892017

Points: 5

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New comment by russellpekala in "Krazam OS"

russellpekala — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:19:26 +0000

How much do we need to pay this guy to quit software and just make jokes?

This guy is an icon.

New comment by russellpekala in "The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)"

russellpekala — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:03:41 +0000

I heard that this business unit turned into 3Ms healthcare data analytics business partially because healthcare customers kept buying floppy disks after everyone else stopped. https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/health-information-systems-us/dr...

New comment by russellpekala in "I Can Eat Glass"

russellpekala — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 16:27:30 +0000

I love this. My coworkers and I call ourselves glasseaters since we're all so scrappy.

The guy who started this translation project (per the wikipedia) was himself a startup founder https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/.

New comment by russellpekala in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)"

russellpekala — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:56:50 +0000

Yuzu Health | Senior Software Engineer | $200k+ TC | NYC only

https://yuzu.health/careers/founding-senior-engineer

We're building a modern health plan for startups that doesn't suck.

Software is eating the world. Healthcare is eating the economy.

New comment by russellpekala in "New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong"

russellpekala — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:02:45 +0000

If you want to be a part of this battle while also not being a part of the "middleman" (e.g. price transparency venders), come join us at Yuzu Health. We are hiring for a senior engineer to help us build a modern health plan tailored to the needs of startups and their employees.

https://yuzu.health/careers

New comment by russellpekala in "The new wave of React state management"

russellpekala — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 22:30:59 +0000

I do find redux super helpful for undo/redo (as mentioned in the article) and have not found a similar library for another state management solution that can do quite what I need there.

New comment by russellpekala in "Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser"

russellpekala — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:37:46 +0000

this is awesome, if I didn’t have the M1 I bet I would need this given how many tabs I always have open…