Hacker News: caycep

New comment by caycep in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

caycep — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:33:51 +0000

It's definitely giving spam numbers as "official support lines" of companies like JetBlue and Delta. I think the spammers flood review sites w/ those numbers and the bot scrapes the reviews.

New comment by caycep in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

caycep — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:04:30 +0000

Author spent a ton of time writing this up "for fun"...but glad people are still doing this and old school blogs. The effort required seems substantial...

Not sure about the AI style transfer images... sure it's a valid way to get the illustrations you want but I don't have to like it...

New comment by caycep in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

caycep — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:46:26 +0000

What are the chances there will be another Mac Pro in the future?

Will Apple ever make a computer that makes Siracusa happy? (and do you have the "Believe" shirt?)

New comment by caycep in "Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea"

caycep — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:40:18 +0000

Oh no, there's both. At least for consultations, there's only 3 inpatient / 5 outpatient levels of CPT codes which work for both complexity and/or time. And patients tend to be pretty complex, so it'd not hard to justify a level 4 or 5 CPT code; any less than that and the patient usually has absolutely nothing wrong with them. And at best, max complexity, Medicare pays, something like $227 per CPT code. So to keep the lights on, you'd better figure out a way to see 14, 16, 20 patients a day...a practice cannot stay afloat if you take 45 mins to an hour to see a level 5 CPT code.

For hospital stays, I may be outdated in this, but Medicare pays a lump sum DRG which doesn't tend to go up much, so the longer the patient is in the hospital, the less money the hospital makes.

Short story is the biggest pressures from the higher-ups is for us to see more volume outpatient, and cut duration of stays inpatient....

New comment by caycep in "Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea"

caycep — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:34:39 +0000

I would maybe modify this to say - there is a strong incentive to be efficient - you only make so much money per encounter, DRG visit to the hospital, etc. So the pressure from "management" on a lot of us clinicians is to see more people per day, make each hospital visit as short as possible, etc. Medicaid providers now see something like 50-60 patients a day because the per-patient visit is relatively low. But there isn't as much incentive for outcomes. I think CMS has tried it in the past, but with varying success. Whether this new mousetrap will work, who knows.

New comment by caycep in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

caycep — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:53:13 +0000

it also looks really nice. at the Apple Store, the chassis seems well machined. the "cheaper" apple logo insert also clearly also incurred some expense as it fit into the lid perfectly. Hinge, keyboard and trackpad felt good. Design team clearly took time to telegraph craft and quality in their product.

New comment by caycep in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

caycep — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:34:47 +0000

If you purpose build a Linux gaming PC, would you lean more towards AMD GPUs over Nvidia?

New comment by caycep in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

caycep — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:53:35 +0000

which is poorly differentiated cells undergoing unchecked neurogenesis...

New comment by caycep in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

caycep — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:56:00 +0000

Of note, cautionary tale is too much neurogenesis is brain cancer...

New comment by caycep in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

caycep — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:55:07 +0000

It really depends on how much the company wants to invest. If it really worked, then it would be relatively straightforward for them to put together a Phase II. Not cheap, but relatively straightforward. Or at least it would have been when we had a functioning FDA

Also, the other definition in question is what the UCLA PR person means by "repairing brain damage". As far as I can tell from the paper - the "drug" part was using some neurotransmitter blockers on brain cells on a Petri dish to see if they could change gene expression or oscillatory firing patterns matching recordings in mice undergoing "physical therapy". They did not actually test to see if the stuff grew new brain cells or dendritic connections.

New comment by caycep in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

caycep — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:31:36 +0000

I mean, it’s prob easier to run chromeos in utm on the Mac…

New comment by caycep in "How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House"

caycep — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:10:02 +0000

How many people here is he really "accessible" to? I highly doubt you and I are able to cold call him as easily as some people think they can...

"accessibility" with lousy judgement also may not be the greatest combo...

New comment by caycep in "Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade"

caycep — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:15:34 +0000

wasn't there a post by someone that looked into the Mythos demo and felt that it was terrible at doing what people claimed it could do?

Granted, given that most cybersecurity news over the past decade has been grim, both could be true...

New comment by caycep in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

caycep — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:35:40 +0000

They could justify it as a capacity investment, like buying all the tooling for their aluminum laptop bodies.

New comment by caycep in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

caycep — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:46:42 +0000

Nowadays I wonder if it's best practice to run everything in a desktop VM and not on your actual computer...

New comment by caycep in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

caycep — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:43:20 +0000

at first I thought Sierra games was making a comeback...

New comment by caycep in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

caycep — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:23:46 +0000

maybe the culture should be for them to contract with popular app makers to be "The" default app for x amount of years or such, vs sherlocking.

New comment by caycep in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

caycep — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:16:31 +0000

you know it's bad when even ol' Rupert is worried

New comment by caycep in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

caycep — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:40:02 +0000

just to clarify it's not PyTorch, it's the library for this Lightning AI company?

New comment by caycep in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

caycep — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:20:15 +0000

I was going to post about whether there were still "laws" in the US, but this post gets the point across much better