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maz1b

579 karma · joined June 24, 2014

Founder, CEO & CTO, MedAngle (azib@medangle.com) Medical doctor, full stack engineer, designer, technologist and musician/producer. Former founder Radcircle, Former design chief Songfari
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maz1b··on Grok 4.7
Either way, the fact that xAI or SpaceXAI or whatever the name is, I can commend the team behind it on their rapid ascent and progress by being close and or on the frontier in several respects.
maz1b··on OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M
OpenAI really going after ex Apple people who start new companies or startups, eh? First Ive and now the duo behind Portrait mode.

Will be interesting to see how the legal battle plays out as well.

maz1b··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Working on MedAngle, the world's first Super App for current and future doctors.

100k+ users, 150m+ questions solved, 60b seconds of smarter studying, MedGPT, MedAgent, and everything medical/dental students need in one place along with young doctors who have recently graduated

maz1b··on Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
I could be mistaken, but wasn't Mistral openly championing themselves as a company and EU option that wouldn't do this/didn't do this?
maz1b··on I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
Just wanted to say that the rhabdo part mentioned on your site was really impressive! Speaking as a medical doctor and full stack engineer myself.
maz1b··on Mistral OCR 4.1
How does this compare to 4?
maz1b··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Agentic AI Super App for medical and dental school. You can think of it as literally everything one would need from day one of admission till graduation day as a doctor.

I myself am the first medical doctor and full stack engineer in the history of my country (250 million), graduated as a doctor at age 25, and we have over 100+ users [all of which are medical/dental students and doctors], 10s of billions of seconds studying smarter, hundreds of millions of questions solved, and more.

Our Super App has subsystems including MedGPT, MedAgent, Spaci (our own take on spaced repetition) and much more.

We're bootstrapped, and continuing to scale. If you are in medical school or know someone who is, please reach out!

https://medangle.com

maz1b··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Wow. Makes me see OpenAI in an entirely different light.
maz1b··on Nano Banana 2 Lite
Wow, that's a pretty massive decrease in latency, which should unlock some use cases, but the linked web page doesn't exactly make it straightforward to understand the differences between the models.

However, based off my personal experiences with general images models, Google in my opinion is the best for my workflows. Granted, I haven't tried far-east providers yet.

What does everyone else think?

maz1b··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Pretty huge move. Google and their TPUs are looking infinitely more prescient as I think they are on their 7th generation, along with the offshoots it inspired like the LPU and even others, perhaps like Cerebras and their Wafer Scale Engine.

However, based off first impressions, it seems like this is meant for inference side, and not training, which is also an interesting choice.

maz1b··on Midjourney Medical
This made me spit my coffee out! Thanks for helping me start my day with a laugh. No comment otherwise :-P
maz1b··on Midjourney Medical
I had to check the date after seeing the headline, and again after opening the page. Thought it was April Fools.

Regardless, as a doctor and full stack engineer, I'm looking forward to learning more about their methodologies, their approaches, but I don't think this is going to be displacing MRIs or remotely close, based off the cursory initial glance. If their vision is to be able to provide end users with more actionable data with some kind of "low fidelity" medical imaging data that is somewhere above zero and or standard imaging and high fidelity modalities like CT/MRI, then this could be somewhat interesting.

Not a radiologist and not medical advice. Just my two cents.

maz1b··on Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small
They've done multiple "evaluations" by third parties, but still, it seems that they aren't being fully transparent. I think the approach is quite interesting and novel, but this feels like deja vu.

I get why they aren't disclosing all the details, but it seems more hype-train-esque to me for this moment. I don't disagree that this could be big.

maz1b··on A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
I've always wondered what that would be like. A fleet of 50 relatively modern flagship smartphones, wiped and retrofitted software wise to act as a homogeneous server, running ubuntu or centos or fedora, something like that.
maz1b··on How is Groq raising more money?
Deals like these are quite rare, would be nice to know more about how the funding worked, but for customers, what are they doing? Total silence from Groq for a very long time now.
maz1b··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Agentic AI Super App for premed, medical, and dental schools and recent graduates - young doctors.

MedAngle is literally everything one could need, personalized to their curriculum across 4-6 years of medical school. Quizzes, videos, notes, flashcards, reminders, scheduling, performance, search, and more.

Our Super App is comprised of MedGPT + MedAgent + Spaci (futuristic spaced repetition), which serve as layers over our massive collection of features such as the Smart Suite, Learning Library, Clinical Corner, Tested Tools and more.

100k+ users, 10s of billions of seconds spent studying smarter, invite only. Bootstrapped, growing nicely. I lead a team of top medical students and doctors.

maz1b··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Not a headline I ever thought I would see. Kinda crazy how meme stocks and retail hype has led to this.
maz1b··on A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
I think perhaps contrary to popular belief, Mercury choosing Haskell and their early leadership having such a storied experience in it probably played some non-insignificant role in their success.

As a customer of Mercury, it's truly one of the critical companies my toolkit, and I just can't help but feel that their choosing of Haskell made their progress, development and overall journey that much better. I realize that you can make this argument with most languages, and it's not to say that a FP lang like Haskell is a recipe for success, but this intentional decision particularly pre "vibe coding" and the LLM era seems particularly prescient, of course combined with their engineering culture that was detailed in the post.

maz1b··on Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
Really enjoyed reading this. A lot. Reminds me when I was a teenager reading technical blogs in the earlier days of the internet.

BTW, that last line about hiring/commissioning a cartographer, very rad and cool :~)

maz1b··on Grok 4.3
I still wish they named it something else, but congratulations to the team on what seems to be a good release!

Pricing is also quite surprising, compared to comparable competitors. I guess they have tons of capacity or really want to bring over more people.

maz1b··on Apple reports second quarter results
It seems to me that Apple is only going to be further increasing the number of price points and "levels" of caliber of devices, from budget/entry level all the way to new heights such as things like iPhone Ultra or Macbook Ultra, because services will be have an even wider net to cast into (If you're buying Ultra devices, you'll probably get AppleCare+, and if you have new apple devices such as the Neo or 17e etc, you'll be more likely to get Apple music or books or fitness or whatnot.
maz1b··on GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
Wow, that is insanely atrocious. I'll look into moving off any remaining domains away from GoDaddy.
maz1b··on The Gemini app is now on Mac
Heard it's written in Swift for this native adaptation. That's a good sign.
maz1b··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
MedAngle + MedGPT + MedAgent

All in the MedAngle Super App - literally everything a future doctor needs in one place. 100k+ users, 150m+ questions solved, tens of billions of seconds spent studying smarter

https://medangle.com

maz1b··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
I really can't believe they discontinued the Pro Display XDR.. what is wrong with them? A company the size of Apple, surely must have the resources to update it every couple of years.
maz1b··on Speed up responses with fast mode
AFAIK, they don't have any deals or partnerships with Groq or Cerebras or any of those kinds of companies.. so how did they do this?
maz1b··on Ruby 4.0.0
It's never Christmas without a new ruby version.

The ruby::box thing looks pretty interesting, from a cursory glance you can run two simultaneous versions of something like a feature or rollout much more conveniently.

Also being able to do

  if condition1
     && condition2
    ...
  end

on multiple lines rather than one - this is pretty nifty too!
maz1b··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Damn. Was hoping Groq and Cerebras would give the giants a run for their money.
maz1b··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first agentic AI Super App for current and future doctors. Invite only, 100k+ users, 150m+ questions solved, tens of billions of seconds spent studying smarter.
maz1b··on Meow.camera
Didn't expect to find something this wonderful on HN!

Good start to the morning.

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