A 10-year-old CNN model has been observed to outperform frontier LLMs in diagnosing skin c

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Oct 25, 2026 18:23 UTC hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233779

A 10-year-old CNN model has been observed to outperform frontier LLMs in diagnosing skin cancer, according to a fast-climbing Hacker News story.

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interesting to see an older cnn model still outperforming frontier llms for skin cancer diagnosis. maybe not everything needs a giant model?

a new hn post is picking up steam showing that sometimes specialized, older models can still beat cutting-edge llms in specific tasks like medical diagnosis.