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The characters of plastics (2024) 3 by thelastgallon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: We built a real-time desktop companion for patient's telehealth visits 6 by nikilr | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, Some friends and I built an app called Sidekick that joins your telehealth visits in real-time. It explains medical terms and suggests useful questions, including ones you may not have thought to ask. After the visit, it provides a summary including next steps, so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes. The idea of Sidekick came from our team's experiences with healthcare. Our founder, Rahul, had stage three cancer at 17. His mom had to manage everything around his care: taking notes through treatment, figuring out what questions to ask, etc. A decade later and he’s now in remission, but still sees a lot of specialists and deals with the same challenges. Another teammate became a caregiver after his dad had a severe stroke. He found himself taking notes, looking up medical terms, and trying to keep track of what was said during e...

Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests 24 by nerdypepper | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance 17 by adchurch | 1 comments on Hacker News. A few months ago we started building a model router for coding agents because we thought we could outperform any single model with an ensemble approach. Recently we’ve achieved that milestone and I want to talk about how we did it. First of all, a quick explanation: the Weave Router ( https://ift.tt/U5fvMyJ ) plugs into any coding agent (e.g. Claude Code or Codex) and intelligently switches between LLMs. So, for example, Astra handles tricky debugging or complex system design tasks, and Deepseek v4 Flash handles simple frontend updates. What we’re announcing today is our new routing model, which we’re calling Weave Router 2.0. We benchmarked 2.0 against GPT-6 Astra on Terminal Bench 4.0 and SWE Atlas. On both benchmarks, the router had equivalent pass rates. On Terminal Bench, the router hit 52% of Astra’s cost, and completed tasks 2.2x faster. On SWE Atlas, th...

Energy Timelines Photovoltaic 4 by thelastgallon | 1 comments on Hacker News.

What if Jev spoke Arrow? 16 by ianmcook | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released 43 by therepanic | 12 comments on Hacker News.