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arcb

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    Comment #48545117

    Thank you!

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    Comment #48517895

    On re-read I think I might have overreached in my reply. I think having local LLMs being able run tool loops to _transform_ data, rather than just summary or analysis, will become …

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    Comment #48517876

    We hear you on getting pulled into tarpit problems, and on the pattern you're describing leading to them. The core product motivation we're excited about is letting humans and thei…

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    Comment #48510641

    We're offering secure connections to sources like SQL DBs, warehouses, file stores, and MCP/API sources like PostHog or Salesforce. Customers can choose to set up credentials in ou…

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    Comment #48510072

    I suspect stronger edge performance will come as a side-effect of local inference. Your point on edge tool calls is interesting and I'll think about that. Features like offline mod…

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    Comment #48509714

    I hear you on fast responses. One of the frustrations I've had using BI / data tools in the past was not being able to get local performance... which led to me exporting data to sp…

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    Comment #48509644

    There are a lot of cool and useful things in there. What are you most excited about?

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    Comment #48508318

    Not at the moment but it's in the queue. If there's a sign up method that works better for you feel free to DM me.

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    Comment #48507270

    Thank you! If you try it out let us know how it goes!

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    Comment #48506800

    Our outreach is vertical-specific, and healthcare is indeed on the list! But what we learned working a vertical is that the primitives underneath (shared queries, permissions, cach…

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    Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

    We’re Connor and Ambar from BitBoard ( https://bitboard.work ). BitBoard is an agentic analytics workspace. We give you the infrastructure and visualization layer to analyze data w…

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    Comment #44301743

    I believe we will at some point. All question of the right need coming up. Text OCR has gotten really good, and if you think of it from a UI perspective, the only real contract is …

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    Comment #44294888

    It's a great repo! We had issues with iframes and framesets (which are old DOM tags) we had to write custom code for. Some DOMs need annotation to provide meaning to an LLM (for ex…

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    Comment #44250285

    We hope to be part of that brighter future! On the labor impact front, what we're seeing is that there is so much pent up demand for care, that any time we free up staff, they enab…

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    Comment #44248954

    I hear you. We constantly think of the value of clinicians' time. What could they be doing if they didn't have to do high-volume data entry. In one of our customers' cases, they in…

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    Comment #44248942

    You might have seen this OSS logo in one of our videos: https://lucide.dev/icons/bot

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    Comment #44248930

    Great question. In the web agent case, we solely use HTTPS, and only between resources we either directly control (our servers), or whitelisted customer websites where we connect o…

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    Comment #44239813

    Thank you! One of the big ones is that clinicians don't want more screens; they're already overloaded. So we're succeeding if we're invisible and yet effective for our customers. W…

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    Comment #44239740

    We're looking to hire our first few engineers in the next few months, and we would love to talk to anyone who has an interest in working in this domain! If you'd like to talk more …

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    Comment #44239720

    We don't use browser agents if an when we have an API - we prefer the strongest data types we can access. It comes down to what our customers can work with. Some of them are fairly…

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    Comment #44239697

    Thank you! We have a fork of browser-use that lets us hand hold web agents since we know our tasks are repetitive. We can cache expected paths and fire alerts if we go off the rail…

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    Comment #44239615

    It depends on the source and destination. The trickiest case is when we're using browser agents for data entry. We can use the fact that we focus on repetitive tasks to our advanta…

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    Comment #44238800

    Thanks! From our side, we’re currently focused on specialty and multi-specialty groups. For example, obesity medicine, cardiology, pathology centers, radiology clinics... These gro…