Hacker News: anjel

New comment by anjel in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

anjel — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:45:56 +0000

Providers are contractually forbidden by insurers to show you the much lower "out of pocket+ price schule if you have insurance. It's why the first question posed to new patients is always " do you have insurance?"

New comment by anjel in "Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose"

anjel — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:40:46 +0000

I shudder to imagine the monetization schemes of such an architecture though.

New comment by anjel in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

anjel — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:24:25 +0000

> lifting historically unprecedented numbers of people out of abject poverty.

Basically true, but not much more than that for most Chinese. The urban modern success story presented to the world is a surprisingly small segment of a notably larger population and even for many in that smaller more fortunate segment the gravy days are long ago and no sign of returning yet.

https://eastasiaforum.org/2011/08/19/in-the-city-but-not-of-...

New comment by anjel in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

anjel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:32:23 +0000

"Steelman" in almost every response never gets less cringe for me

New comment by anjel in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

anjel — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:28:52 +0000

History reveals that every war is won by the nation with superior industrial capacity.

New comment by anjel in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

anjel — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:25:06 +0000

Canadian hydroelectric is the catalyst that makes winter hothouse produce cost competitive. Wealthy us elec producers have no incentive to match Canada's low cost of production. Indeed their incentives are rather contrary.

New comment by anjel in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

anjel — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:18:07 +0000

Robotic polinators ftw.

New comment by anjel in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

anjel — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:07:29 +0000

As with Ukraine, it's a David and Goliath kind of conflict and in both conflicts, the temptation for Goliath to escalate by leveraging scale is predictable, tempting and frought.

New comment by anjel in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

anjel — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:12:34 +0000

Intro to "moral hazard"

New comment by anjel in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

anjel — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:03:50 +0000

You had good luck navigating a house of mirrors. It's still a house of mirrors though.

New comment by anjel in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

anjel — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:01:16 +0000

2nd that

New comment by anjel in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

anjel — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:19:27 +0000

> Fable certainly hasn’t blow my socks off. Same. Its not so much perf increase as cost increase justified by ambiguous perf increase.

New comment by anjel in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

anjel — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:17:56 +0000

Up next is boom's line of of landscape blowers

New comment by anjel in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

anjel — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:14:15 +0000

I lived in the area where boom did their flight tests and the local news would announce days when they were testing. FWIW, I think they used scaled down aircraft so production aircraft may vary, but the boom was more of a thump. It comes on quick though, so some potential for startling, not on account of volume so much as sonic attack.

New comment by anjel in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

anjel — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:44:38 +0000

Aldi's and Lidl have 1/3 the SKUs which in and of itself is a winning advantage.

New comment by anjel in "Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California"

anjel — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:31:27 +0000

Also a thing with podcast adverts.

New comment by anjel in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

anjel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:26:57 +0000

Vitamin k and k2 are not at all the same with respect to blood thinning

Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real

anjel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/google-captcha-bot-real-check-hand-wave-b3000419.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653648

Points: 7

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New comment by anjel in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

anjel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:03:26 +0000

MDs NPs and PAs currently are offered free access to a medical AI app called Open Evedidence. Was just discussing this with our chief medical officer and while he is quite enthusiastic about it, he could already see this same dumbing down effect emerging among his providers. The solution I think, is 5 or 10 ten year re-certification exams for MDs, currently reqd for "Physician Extenders" but not the Physicians who supervise them. Continuing compulsory education and re-certification works, I suspect, in all highly skilled fields that are both augmented by AI but also degraded by it.

New comment by anjel in "Midjourney Full Body Ultrasonic CT Scanner"

anjel — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:47:02 +0000

Soon to be rebranded...