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mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
Relevant Healthcare | Lead Software Engineer | Remote (US) | Full-time

Relevant builds a data platform that helps safety-net healthcare providers deliver better care using data from their electronic health records. Our customers are non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers. You can read more about them, us, and the roles on our jobs page: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

We're a small team (~25 overall). We're bootstrapped (no external capital whatsoever, VC or otherwise) and profitable. We've got a modern tech stack (Rails, Typescript, React, GraphQL, d3) and a healthy approach to both tech debt and work/life balance… and we’re also a very nice group of people that get to work on interesting problems for some of the few unimpeachably good actors in healthcare!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
Relevant Healthcare | Lead Software Engineer | Remote (US) | Full-time

Relevant builds a data platform that helps safety-net healthcare providers deliver better care using data from their electronic health records. Our customers are non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers. You can read more about them, us, and the roles on our jobs page: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

We're a small team (~25 overall). We're bootstrapped (no external capital whatsoever, VC or otherwise) and profitable. We've got a modern tech stack (Rails, Typescript, React, GraphQL, d3) and a healthy approach to both tech debt and work/life balance… and we’re also a very nice group of people that get to work on interesting problems for some of the few unimpeachably good actors in healthcare!

mistidoi··on Good Tools Are Invisible
I think this article might miss the point that tools like vim often have a much higher ceiling than the transparent or conventional alternative. You get good at the puzzle part of it (which goes along with any craft), and you are able to do things faster than your former self could have conceived.

I remember coming up as a programmer and seeing someone who was truly excellent at using their text editor making large sets of changes that would have taken me double or triple the time and having this feeling of, "ohhh that's the payout."

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
Relevant Healthcare | Software Engineers (multiple levels) | Remote (US/Canada) | Full-time

Relevant builds a data platform that helps safety-net healthcare providers deliver better care using data from their electronic health records. Our customers are non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers. You can read more about them, us, and the roles on our jobs page: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

We're a small team (~25 overall). We're bootstrapped (no external capital whatsoever, VC or otherwise) and profitable. We've got a modern tech stack (Rails, Typescript, React, GraphQL, d3) and a healthy approach to both tech debt and work/life balance… and we’re also a very nice group of people that get to work on interesting problems for some of the few unimpeachably good actors in healthcare!

mistidoi··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
I found this article really frustrating.

The author takes a blurry position between non-dualist naturalists like John Searle and eliminativists like Dennett and the Churchlands and doesn't seem to engage with them at all, much less probing into the issues with those views that might motivate people like Chalmers and Nagel.

It crescendos with a hand-wave:

> The mind is the behavior of the brain, properly described in a high-level language. Neither my own experience of myself nor an external experience of me is primary[.]

A number of views about consciousness are compatible with statements like that (like the ones above and many others), each with their own philosophical tradeoffs and bullets to bite. The author seems generally unaware of them yet somehow confident that they've solved the matter.

mistidoi··on Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
I'm a total doofus with no relevant experience and neither could I.
mistidoi··on What is it like to be a bat?
Somebody used this paper to make the term batfished, which they defined as being fooled into ascribing subjectivity to a non-sentient actor (i.e. an AI).

https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2025/06/30/what-is-it-like...

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
Relevant Healthcare | Director of Engineering | Remote (USA + Canada)

Relevant (https://relevant.healthcare) is a small and experienced team building an analytics and population health platform for non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers*. We're bootstrapped, fully remote, and hiring a director of engineering!

Read more about the role here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/director-of-engineering/ Read more about Community Health Centers here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Relevant Healthcare | Director of Engineering | Remote (USA + Canada) Relevant (https://relevant.healthcare) is a small and experienced team building an analytics and population health platform for non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers*. We're bootstrapped, fully remote, and hiring a director of engineering!

Read more about the role here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/director-of-engineering/ Read more about Community Health Centers here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
Relevant Healthcare | Director of Engineering | Remote (USA + Canada)

Relevant (https://relevant.healthcare) is a small and experienced team building an analytics and population health platform for non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers*. We're bootstrapped, fully remote, and hiring a director of engineering!

Read more about the role here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/director-of-engineering/ Read more about Community Health Centers here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
Relevant Healthcare | Director of Engineering | Remote (USA + Canada)

Relevant (https://relevant.healthcare) is a small and experienced team building an analytics and population health platform for non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers*. We're bootstrapped, fully remote, and hiring a director of engineering!

Read more about the role here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/director-of-engineering/ Read more about Community Health Centers here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Relevant Healthcare | Director of Engineering | Remote (USA + Canada)

Relevant (https://relevant.healthcare) is a small and experienced team building an analytics and population health platform for non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers*. We're bootstrapped, fully remote, and hiring a director of engineering!

Read more about the role here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/director-of-engineering/ Read more about Community Health Centers here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Relevant Healthcare | Lead and Senior Software Engineers | Remote (US) / NYC | Full-time

Relevant builds a data platform that helps safety-net healthcare providers deliver better care using data in their electronic health records. Our customers are non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers. You can read more about them, us, and the roles on our jobs page: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

We're a small team (16 overall with two technical co-founders). We're bootstrapped (no external capital whatsoever, VC or otherwise) and profitable. We've got a modern tech stack (Rails, Typescript, React, GraphQL, d3) and a healthy approach to both tech debt and work/life balance… and we’re also a very nice group of people that get to work on interesting problems for some of the few unimpeachably good actors in healthcare!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
Relevant Healthcare | Lead and Senior Software Engineers | Remote (US) / NYC | Full-time Relevant builds a data platform that helps safety-net healthcare providers deliver better care using data in their electronic health records. Our customers are non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers. You can read more about them, us, and the roles on our jobs page:

https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

We're a small team (16 overall with two technical co-founders). We're bootstrapped (no external capital whatsoever, VC or otherwise) and profitable. We've got a modern tech stack (Rails, Typescript, React, GraphQL, d3) and a healthy approach to both tech debt and work/life balance… and we’re also a very nice group of people that get to work on interesting problems for some of the few unimpeachably good actors in healthcare!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact
Plus one for healthcare! I work at Relevant (https://relevant.healthcare), and we build tools to help community health centers use data to provide better care to their patients. There's more detail about what community health centers are here: https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/.
mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
Relevant Healthcare | Lead and Senior Software Engineers | Remote (US) / NYC | Full-time

Relevant builds a data platform that helps safety-net healthcare providers deliver better care using data in their electronic health records. Our customers are non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers. You can read more about them, us, and the roles on our jobs page:

https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

We're a small team (16 overall with two technical co-founders). We're bootstrapped (no external capital whatsoever, VC or otherwise) and profitable. We've got a modern tech stack (Rails, Typescript, React, GraphQL, d3) and a healthy approach to both tech debt and work/life balance… and we’re also a very nice group of people that get to work on interesting problems for some of the few unimpeachably good actors in healthcare!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)
Relevant Healthcare | Lead and Senior Software Engineers | Remote (US)

Relevant builds a data platform that helps safety-net healthcare providers deliver better care using data in their electronic health records. Our customers are non-profit clinics called Community Health Centers. You can read more about them and the roles on our jobs page:

https://relevant.healthcare/jobs/

We're a small team (15 overall with two technical co-founders). We're bootstrapped (no external capital whatsoever, VC or otherwise) and profitable. We've got a modern tech stack (Rails, Typescript, React, GraphQL, d3) and a healthy approach to both tech debt and work/life balance… and we’re also a very nice group of people that get to work on interesting problems for some of the few unimpeachably good actors in healthcare!

mistidoi··on Dataflow, a self-hosted Observable notebook editor
As a total Observable/Bostock stan who works with HIPAA protected data, I love this.
mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Relevant | Engineering and Design Roles | Full-time (ideally onsite once COVID is over) | New York City | https://relevant.healthcare/#jobs Relevant population health and analytics tools for healthcare non-profits that provide care to the underserved in the US. We're a bootstrapped and mission-driven company filled with passionate and lovely humans who are lucky to get to work on interesting problems for unimpeachably good actors in the healthcare space. Come join us! Our tech stack is PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, React, d3.js, and Go. One of our most recent projects was to build risk modeling tools to identify patients at risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes due to age and co-morbidities. The JDs include instructions to apply, but if you have any questions, reach out to me directly at brandon@relevant.healthcare (no dot com). Thanks!
mistidoi··on Why We're Building Observable
I kind of thought that too, but somewhere around the start of the pandemic, I was able to quickly develop an interactive dataviz on Observable (https://observablehq.com/@mistidoi/coronavirus-tests-positiv...) and drop it into a blog post trivially (https://relevant.healthcare/blog/2020-04-02-covid-state-visu...). Beyond the work on the viz itself, it took something like 15 minutes to get it into the blog post, and it's more or less seamless.

Confession though, I might have been powered by Mike Bostock fanboy juice. d3 is part of what made me fall in love with programming.

mistidoi··on Where Are All the Successful Rationalists?
Funny typo: 'The LSD has an estimated $5B in annual revenue". :)
mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
Relevant | Design, and Product Roles | Full-time, Onsite | New York City | https://relevant.healthcare/#jobs Relevant builds workflow and analytics tools for healthcare non-profits that provide care to the underserved in the US. We're a bootstrapped and mission-driven company filled with passionate and lovely humans who are lucky to get to work on interesting problems for unimpeachably good actors in the healthcare space. Come join us! Our tech stack is PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, React, d3.js, and Go. One of our most recent projects was to build risk modeling tools to identify patients at risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes due to age and co-morbidities. The JDs include instructions to apply, but if you have any questions, reach out to me directly at brandon@relevant.healthcare (no dot com).

Thanks!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
Relevant | Various Engineering, Design, and Product Roles | Full-time, Onsite | New York City | https://relevant.healthcare/#jobs Relevant builds workflow and analytics tools for healthcare non-profits that provide care to the underserved in the US. We're a bootstrapped and mission-driven company filled with passionate and lovely humans who are lucky to get to work on interesting problems for unimpeachably good actors in the healthcare space. Come join us! Our tech stack is PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, React, d3.js, and Go. One of our most recent projects was to build risk modeling tools to identify patients at risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes due to age and co-morbidities.

The JD's include instructions to apply, but if you have any questions, reach out to me directly at brandon@relevant.healthcare (no dot com).

Thanks!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
Relevant Healthcare Technologies | Various Engineering, Design, and Product Roles | Full-time, Onsite | New York City | https://relevant.healthcare/#jobs Relevant builds workflow and analytics tools for healthcare non-profits that provide care to the underserved in the US. We're a bootstrapped and mission-driven company filled with passionate and lovely humans who are lucky to get to work on interesting problems for unimpeachably good actors in the healthcare space. Come join us! Our tech stack is PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, React, d3.js, and weensy bit of Go.

One of our most recent projects was to build risk modeling tools to identify patients at risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes due to age and co-morbidities.

If you have any questions, reach out to me directly at brandon@relevant.healthcare (no dot com).

Thanks!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
Relevant Healthcare Technologies | Various Engineering, Design, and Product Roles | Full-time, Onsite | New York City | https://relevant.healthcare/#jobs Relevant builds workflow and analytics tools for healthcare non-profits that provide care to the underserved in the US. We're a bootstrapped and mission-driven company filled with passionate and lovely humans who are lucky to get to work on interesting problems for unimpeachably good actors in the healthcare space. Come join us!

Our tech stack is PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, React, d3.js, and weensy bit of Go.

One of our most recent projects was to build risk modeling tools to identify patients at risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes due to age and co-morbidities.

If you have any questions, reach out to me directly at brandon@relevant.healthcare (no dot com).

Thanks!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
Relevant Healthcare Technologies | Various Engineering, Design, and Product Roles | Full-time, Onsite | New York City | https://relevant.healthcare/#jobs

Relevant builds workflow and analytics tools for healthcare non-profits that provide care to the underserved in the US. We're a bootstrapped and mission-driven company filled with passionate and lovely humans who are lucky to get to work on interesting problems for unimpeachably good actors in the healthcare space. Come join us!

Our tech stack is PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, React, d3.js, and weensy bit of Go.

If you have any questions, reach out to me directly at brandon@relevant.healthcare (no dot com).

Thanks!

mistidoi··on Ask HN: My startup is in a WeWork. What should we expect?
Thanks so much for this thoughtful and well-argued answer. I really appreciate it.
mistidoi··on What Working at Stripe Has Been Like
Just curious... What does engineering management look like at Stripe? Do they do the standard goal-setting stuff that's common in the valley?
mistidoi··on The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind
Pretty wild to me that David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind isn't included on this list.