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Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•54s ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•7m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•9m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•14m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•14m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•17m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•21m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•23m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•24m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•25m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•26m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•32m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•34m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•34m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•36m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•36m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•37m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•40m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•40m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•40m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•42m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•44m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•44m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•45m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•46m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A self-custody medical records prototype (lessons learned)

https://github.com/Mzhvnn-tch/sehati-apps
4•SERSI-S•2w ago
Hi HN,

I built an early prototype exploring whether self-custody medical records can work in practice, using cryptographic proofs without putting sensitive health data on-chain.

The problem I’m testing against is healthcare data fragmentation in Indonesia, where patient records are siloed across hospitals and often unavailable in emergencies.

Blockchain is used only as an immutable audit layer; the system is designed to work even if the chain changes.

Key design choices: - No medical data on-chain (hashes only, for verification and audit) - All records encrypted off-chain - Patients control access via QR-based sharing (doctors don’t touch crypto) - Blockchain treated as a verification layer, not storage

Lessons learned so far: - Hospitals won’t run blockchain infrastructure - Doctors won’t manage private keys - UX matters more than cryptography - Key recovery is harder than expected - Regulation shapes architecture early

This is not production-ready and doesn’t solve regulation, key recovery, or hospital interoperability yet.

I’m mainly looking for critical feedback: - Where this approach is fundamentally flawed - What simpler designs I should consider instead - Healthcare practitioners’ reality checks

Repo and technical details are in the README. Happy to answer questions.

Comments

SERSI-S•2w ago
Author here.

A few quick clarifications up front: - No medical data is stored on-chain (hashes only) - This is a prototype to test assumptions, not a compliant system - Hospitals are not expected to run blockchain infrastructure - The design is intentionally chain-agnostic

If you think blockchain is unnecessary here, I’d genuinely like to hear what simpler alternative you’d recommend.

SERSI-S•2w ago
OP here. I’m still unsure about one assumption and would love pushback:

Even if the cryptography is solid, is asking doctors to scan a QR code already too much friction?

If you’ve built tools for clinicians, what’s the maximum workflow change they’ll tolerate?