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yep re blizzard. they've gotten lots better since the msft acquisition, based on my (limited) experiences with the newer employees there.
Re:Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:14AM (#44753221)
Cool product. I see the need. Many vendors might look like they have similar capabilities on a powerpoint, but when you look one level deeper, they really don't. Eg, webhook notifications at 1 minute intervals with one big json of multiple emails, vs continuous/instant/single.

btw, would love to hear stories of you journey thus far. fwiw, I think you're really onto smtg!

Re:Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:45PM (#44537065)
ML first, then Bio and Data. Of course, interconnectedness runs high (eg just read about ML for non-random missingness in med records) and that data is the foundational bottleneck/need across the board.

Interesting anecdote abt Stanford doctors annotating QA question!

Each of your comments get my mind going... I'm going to think about them more and may ping you on other channels, per your profile. Thanks!

Re:Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:34PM (#44523429)
I'd love to hear more of our thoughts re open questions in biomedical ML. You sound like you have a crisp, nuanced grasp the landscape, which is rare. That would be very helpful to me, as an undergrad in CS (with bio) trying to crystalize research to pursue in bio/ML/GenAI.

Thank you.

Re:Ask HN: Writings that you'd like to share but haven't on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:29PM (#43836284)
Wow, you sound like a mega voracious reader, to put it lightly. And prolific writer too.

Have you posted even just snippets (or a favorite sentence or graf), or perhaps pseudo/anonymously, anywhere?

It literally hurts my heart when personal, creative expression is stifled or not given a chance to grace our greater world.

Ask HN: Writings that you'd like to share but haven't

Like some people, I believe many of you have written things (short/long; fact/fiction; school/pleasure) that you have not posted broadly but that many others would would enjoy reading.I believe this because of my experience at YouTube in the early days, focused on individual creators and because of the many great writing pieces I remember reading of my classmates assignments in school.Two...

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Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:51AM (#43288061)
Thanks for everyone's perspectives. Very educational and admittedly lots outside the boundaries of my current knowledge. I have thus far relied on CloudFlare's automatic https and simple instant subdomain setup for their worker microservice I'm using.

There are evidently technical/footprint implications of that convenience. Fortunately, I'm not really concerned with the subdomain being publicly known; was more curious how it become publicly known.

Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:44AM (#43288024)
I have been just relying on CloudFlare's automatic https. But I will look into my own certs, though will likely just use CloudFlare's. I don't mind the internet knowing the subdomain I posted about; was curious how the bots found it!
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:41AM (#43288010)
I'm so often amazed (but no longer surprised) at the depth of niche (relatively) info and tools out there.
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:38AM (#43287998)
Thanks for mentioning. I checked it out, and am learning lots of new stuff (ie, realize how much I do not know).
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:35AM (#43287980)
Interesting! Just checked them out.

"MerkleMap gathers its information by continuously monitoring and live tailing Certificate Transparency (CT) logs, which are operated by organizations like Google, Cloudflare, and Let's Encrypt. "

Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:31AM (#43287967)
If it does, I did not set it up; it would have been automatically done by CloudFlare when I told it to use my custom subdomain for the upload urls.
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:36PM (#43286485)
Nope, never emailed or posted to anyone. Just me (it's my solo project at the moment).
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:50PM (#43285836)
Ahh yeah, my internet network knowledge was never super strong, and now is rusty to boot. Thanks for your note.
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:48PM (#43285819)
Yes, https via cloudflare's automatic https. Thanks for the info.

Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain?

I have a domain that is not live. As expected, loading the domain returns: Error 1016.However...I have a subdomain with a not obvious name, like: userfileupload.sampledomain.comThis subdomain IS LIVE but has NOT been publicized/posted anywhere. It's a custom URL for authenticated users to upload media with presigned url to my Cloudflare r2 bucket.I am using CloudFlare for my DNS.How did the...

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Re:Announcing the data.gov archive on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:32AM (#42970040)
From the post: Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use.
Reminds me of when I was in 3rd grade, I told my teacher that some birds (parrots) can really understand words.

He flat out laughed at me in front of the whole class, and said No Way. I quietly disagreed with him.

When I got home, I told the story to my bird :)

Re:Pre-hype DeepSeek Liang Wenfeng profile/philosophy on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:46PM (#42870943)
https://archive.is/P4TxW

Based on interviews/info, before all heck broke loose. Some very interesting insights into his mindset.

Eg, When DeepSeek undercut its Chinese competition last year by offering its model at bargain prices, forcing larger rivals into their own price cuts, Mr. Liang dismissed the significance. “To be honest, we didn’t really care — it was just something we did along the way,” he said in a widely shared interview with 36Kr, a Chinese tech outlet. “Providing cloud services is not our main goal. Our aim is still to achieve A.G.I.”

Re:Another (new?) free open model to try this weekend on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:04PM (#42835703)
I didn't see any previous posts about the public facing website. Sorry if it's old news.

I'm pretty toast right now from trying to catch up on DeepSeek. Plus, I don't have the expertise, frankly. I welcome the thoughts from the many, many people more knowledgeable than I am.

What do you mean? I was referring to just the chain of thought you see when the "DeepThink (R1)" button is enabled. As someone who LOVES learning (as many of you too), R1 chain of thought is an infinite candy store.
Re:Emerging Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:08AM (#42828323)
Did you read the paper? What do you think based on the methodology and details in the paper?

btw, I think this is a net major benefit for the US startup ecosystem -- from new model developers to applications.

Edit: Stevvo - Thanks for your info.

Interesting insight/possibility. I did see some capacity glitches with my Cursor recently. Overall, I like Anthropic (and ChatGPT); hopefully they continue to succeed.
Let me qualify your statement... CapEx is what EXISTING US firms were/are lining up to battle with.

With R1 as inspiration/imperative, many new US startups will emerge who will be very strong. Can you feel a bunch of talent in limbo startups pivoting/re-energized now?

Can you tell me more about how Claude Sonnet went bad for you? I've been using the free version pretty happily, and felt I was about to upgrade to paid any day now (well, at least before the new DeepSeek).
The chain of thought is super useful in so many ways, helping me: (1) learn, way beyond the final answer itself, (2) refine my prompt, whether factually or stylistically, (3) understand or determine my confidence in the answer.
Re:Ask HN: Did Google/Alphabet ever try to build a Starlink? on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:30AM (#42325854)
Nikesh was a telco guy, too. But I was referring to Patrick Pichette, Goog CFO. Before Google, Patrick was at Bell Canada, as President of Operations and CFO.

Agree with your sentiment about Musk shipping.

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