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Innolitics
Company blog · innolitics.com/articles · on HN as jdgiesehealthprogramming
Innolitics is the company blog at innolitics.com, writing about health and programming. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 73 times, most often “Dialogue: Are software construction and maintenance different?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Innolitics, a remote firm building medical imaging software, appears on HN mainly through its 'Who is hiring' job ads. Its linked posts cover command-line log tools (lnav) and a PyTorch classifier for COVID-19 on CT scans.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hand us the clinical data and the regulatory goal. We handle the engineering, AI/ML, QMS, V&V, cybersecurity, and submission. One team, one timeline…
Most-linked posts?
- Dialogue: Are software construction and maintenance different?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-19
- Graduate from Sed and Sort to Lnav, the Logfile Navigator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-11
- /about/handbook/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-02
What Hacker News says?
> but it indicates carelessness in the hiring process Perhaps we are using the word careless differently, but I don't see how using heuristics like this implies carelessness on behalf of the employer. If anything, it seems to indicate that the employer is making a well-reasoned choice to balance economic constraints with company values. I run a small software consulting firm and have now hired three people (not too…
Comment linking /about/
on “We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)”Submitted Why Does the DICOM Standard Exist? as a story · 87 points
HN discussionhttp://innolitics.com/10x/graduate-from-sed-and-sort-to-lnav...
Comment linking /10x/graduate-from-sed-and-sort-to-lnav-the-logfile-navigator/
on “TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV”Submitted How we develop FDA-compliant machine learning algorithms as a story · 58 points
HN discussionI agree, in general, but I do think it is worth pointing out that bash is very good at what it was made for---i.e., starting processes, redirecting their output, etc. Compare: { a; b && c; } ≫ log.txt With the same written in Python: from subprocess import check_call, CalledProcessError f = open("log.txt", "a+") try: check_call(["a"], stdout=f) except CalledProcessError as e: pass try: check_call(["b"], stdout=f) ch…
Comment linking /articles/programming-languages/
on “How to write idempotent Bash scripts”Submitted How to Choose a Neutral Net Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation as a story · 40 points
HN discussionInnolitics | NYC, Austin, Houston | REMOTE | Full-time We are a small (but growing), all-remote software development firm. Most of our clients are in the medical imaging space. We have a close-knit team of developers and engineers, and we love working together to solve challenging problems for our clients. We are looking to hire a software developer to work on medical imaging projects using Python and basic web tech…
Comment linking /join/python-developer-april-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Most Makefiles Should .DELETE_ON_ERROR as a story · 26 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Python and Web Developer | Austin, NYC, Houston | REMOTE | Full-time | http://innolitics.com We are a growing, all-remote firm focusing on medical imaging software. Our tight-knit team includes developers and engineers who are passionate about solving interesting and challenging problems in the space. We are currently seeking a creative software developer to work on medical imaging projects for our clie…
Comment linking /join/developer-december-2017/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted How to Prevent Unintentional Data Loss in Web Forms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSuper excited to start seeing async/await in some of the browsers. Async/await makes certain function decorator patterns even more useful, e.g. http://innolitics.com/10x/javascript-decorators-for-promise-...
Comment linking /10x/javascript-decorators-for-promise-returning-functions/
on “JavaScript async/await implemented in V8”Submitted Get More Out of Your Annotated Medical Images with Self-Supervised Learning as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe've used the document-driven approach effectively at our company retreats ( https://innolitics.com ). We plan to use it more frequently as we grow (we have 12 engineers and are hoping to hire a couple more this month).
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on “The Document Culture of Amazon”Submitted Software's Hidden Demon: Code Quality as a story · 4 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Python and Web Developer | Austin, NYC, Houston | REMOTE | Full-time | http://innolitics.com We are a growing, all-remote firm focusing on medical imaging software. Our tight-knit team includes developers and engineers who are passionate about solving interesting and challenging problems in the space. We are currently seeking a creative software developer to work on medical imaging projects for our clie…
Comment linking /join/developer-feburary-2017/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Graduate from Sed and Sort to Lnav, the Logfile Navigator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Full-time | Remote (USA except CA, HI, AK) Innolitics is a ten-person fully-remote services company specializing in medical imaging software. https://innolitics.com Our mission is to accelerate progress in medical imaging by sharing knowledge, creating tools, and providing quality services to our clients with the ultimate purpose of improving patient health. We do so while providing meaningful, flexible…
Comment linking /about/handbook/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”Submitted Hiring: Senior Web/Mobile Medical Device Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Scientific Software Engineer | Distributed team (All in continental USA) | Full-time We help medical device companies write software. See https://innolitics.com/join/engineer-with-scientific-computi... for details and $90k-$125k + bonuses + 3% automatic 401(k) contribution We're also have a couple of other openings ( see https://innolitics.com/careers/ )
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted How to Grow a 10x Team with Code Reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInnolitics | A couple of mid-level and senior positions | Full-Time | Remote We're a growing medical-device software-development firm. Check out our handbook ( https://innolitics.com/about/handbook/ ), or the links below, for more info about our company. 1. Software Engineer ($80k–$110k + bonuses) https://innolitics.com/join/engineer-with-web-experience 2. AI Software Engineer ($90k–$125k + bonuses) https://innoliti…
Comment linking /join/principal-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted Graduate from Sed and Sort to Lnav, the Logfile Navigator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | Full time REMOTE We are a tightly knit group of engineers working to make a difference in patients lives through medical device software development. We are obsessed with code quality and take great pride in our work. We also invest heavily in our team's professional development. Please see the full job ad here: https://innolitics.com/join/senior-developer
Comment linking /join/senior-developer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted How to Use Online Chat Effectively as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Software Engineer | Full-time | remote We help radiologists (and other clinicians) turn their ideas into medical software. We're remote-only, respect work/life balance, and value on-going learning. We're looking for a well-rounded engineer with some web-development experience. We mostly use Python, Django, React, and TypeScript. See https://innolitics.com/join/engineer-with-web-experience for more detai…
Comment linking /join/engineer-with-web-experience
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”Submitted Expert Make Tip: Use .DELETE_ON_ERROR as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Software Engineer | Remote (US except CA, HI, or AK) | Full Time | https://innolitics.com We're a remote-only team of 12 software engineers helping accelerate progress in the medical device industry. We're doing this in a few ways: First and foremost, we help our clients write software for their medical devices. Second, we create tools to help startups efficiently navigate this highly regulated industry…
Comment linking /join/engineer-with-web-experience
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Decorating Async JavaScript Functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInnolitics | Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote US time-zones | 95 - 125K + Benefits https://innolitics.com/join/engineer-with-web-experience We're a remote-only team of 12 software engineers helping accelerate progress in the medical device industry. Our founders, are both biomedical engineers and software developers. We've found some better ways of writing medical-device software that we believe will transform…
Comment linking /join/engineer-with-web-experience
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Submitted Consultant Bench as a story · 1 points
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