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taikon··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
Working on the TAIKO-01, a mass produced split curved keyboard. Planning for release in 6 months.

Join the waitlist here: taiko.taikohub.com

taikon··on Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents
How's it different from e2b computer use?
taikon··on Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics
So I'd still need to do a full chart review? I'm not sure it would save me any significant amount of time.
taikon··on Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics
What if it fails to mention a critically important piece of info? Would your company be liable or would I as a physician have be liable for its mistake?
taikon··on Vector Search at 10k QPS in PostgreSQL
How does vectorchord compare to pgvectorscale?
taikon··on [dead]
Hey HN, My name is David and I'm a family doctor. I made an app where you can message doctors with health related questions.

I made this after having to wait for a doctor myself for over an hour for a simple question. Plumfin lets you send your question to a licensed doctor and get a notification when they reply. This saves you an hour of waiting every time you want to ask a doctor a question.

I haven't gotten Plumfin HIPAA/PIPDEA certified yet, so for now it's only for general health information rather than personalized medical advice. Meaning you shouldn't include personally identifying information.

How it works: It uses a llama 3.2 model fine tuned on medical Q&A with RAG on a medical database. It displays this information on an internal doctor-facing dashboard, where doctors (ie. me) can select between 4 LLM written responses and edit them before sending them back. It also sends a notification to their phone to alert them of a new message. When a doctor sends a reply, you get alerted through your email of the new message.

Let me know what you think. I'd appreciate any thoughts or feedback you might have.

taikon··on VS Code Pets
https://github.com/giusgad/pets.nvim
taikon··on Trellis – 3D mesh generative model
Anywhere you'd recommend a hobbyist can learn more about remeshing or feature detection?
taikon··on Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production
The reason this project is important is because Next.js is hard to deploy if you're not using Vercel to host your app. You can easily run into issues that are hard to resolve. It's creates lock-in with Vercel and is one of the reasons why Vercel has a bad rep.
taikon··on Rewrite It in Rails
I recall Active admin having really clunky UI a couple years ago. I just checked it again and it looks really sleek!
taikon··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
For me, the most important problem that needs to be solved right now is a way for people to access reliable health information.

I'm working on plumfin.com, which lets you ask questions to Canadian or U.S. board certified doctors. Theres no need for video chats or waiting for appointments, you can message a doctor anytime and you'll be alerted with a response.

https://plumfin.com

taikon··on Typeset: An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy
I think this package can reduce readability. The content under Before looked better than the After to me. For example, it changes the word "duplex" to "du-plex" split over two lines, which is less readable.
taikon··on Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
Nowadays I use Vimium C because it supports PDFs. Adding PDF support requires the PDF Viewer for Vimium C plugin.
taikon··on Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
I've been running frigate for a while now and I find it's object detection has a higher than preferred false-positive rate.

For instance, it kept thinking the tree in my back yard is a person. I find it hilarious that it often assigns a higher likelihood the tree is a person than me! I've needed to put a mask over the tree as a last resort.

taikon··on API-LLM-Hub: In-Browser LLM Integration for Static Websites
I might be missing something here, but from the demo it looks like the user has to enter their API keys for their LLM provider. Is this is the intended use case for this tool? If so, how is this better than making a regular API request?
taikon··on Doctors overestimate terminally ill patients' survival days by a factor of 5.3
Comparing estimated vs actual survival suffers from hindsight bias in the same way that you alluded.

Though it's still well known that doctors overestimate survival. Which is why they use tools like Palliative Performance Scale [1] to address this.

[1] https://www.mypcnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/e37642_38...

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