Hacker News: caycep

New comment by caycep in "Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees"

caycep — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:25:17 +0000

granted i am a bit of schadenfreude at the thought of poor poor megabanks having to pay....fees...

New comment by caycep in "My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps"

caycep — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:30:42 +0000

I wonder how we can get cities to build on a human scale. that is my dream for LA; that would involve massive zoning changes here and breaking up quite a bit of concrete...

New comment by caycep in "My Humble Opinion on 'Omarchy' OS"

caycep — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:03:01 +0000

It is relevant as the whole point of Omarchy is political - it's DHH's way of trying to un-democratize the open source dev community

New comment by caycep in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

caycep — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:47:07 +0000

Granted, I feel like munging gigabytes of text data (i.e. G, A, T and Cs) would be something LLMs would be good at

New comment by caycep in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

caycep — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:52:24 +0000

With consumer/desktop Ryzen the one thing that gave me pause was the number of motherboard/CPU failures, esp w/ Asrock. Has that gotten sorted out yet?

still on 5800x (non-x3d)

New comment by caycep in "The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly"

caycep — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:42:36 +0000

I mean, this is more or less true of Marginal Revolution for over a decade now...

New comment by caycep in "Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres"

caycep — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:44:01 +0000

OT but when is LLM not a blunt weapon?

New comment by caycep in "US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount"

caycep — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:57:05 +0000

that was supposed to be a joke...

New comment by caycep in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

caycep — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:56:18 +0000

I'm just saying...between my sandy bridge to the current box, when I looked either having to search for older components vs. just building something new, it was always just easier to build something new. Of course this was when prices were "normal" vs. today....

New comment by caycep in "Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?"

caycep — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:39:24 +0000

I half wonder if we wouldn't have this giant compute supply crunch/environmental damage/energy crisis and tech oligopoly situation if someone would've just written better English to Code translation for LLVM instead...

New comment by caycep in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

caycep — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:46:10 +0000

Granted, I feel this is true re my non-Mac computers. You think you can max it out at first, but then there's new interfaces, RAM standards, etc

New comment by caycep in "US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount"

caycep — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:37:23 +0000

ah true, bipartisan stimulus then!

New comment by caycep in "US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount"

caycep — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:20:47 +0000

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/gfdegdq188s

Debt per GDP/size of US economy is more useful. Debt/GDP has the 2008 jump as the Obama Admin tried to (but not nearly enough) stimulate out of the housing crisis. Debt/GDP looks flat until 2020.

2008 and 2020 jumps make sense in the setting the 2008 crisis and COVID which was effectively a recession assuming you believe in Keynesian economics.

Paying for US debt if you are the US is cheap when interest rates low. Trump/Bessent/Elon have been doing everything they can to drive up inflation, so now interest rates are necessarily going higher...

New comment by caycep in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

caycep — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:05:01 +0000

what, they're not going to name it Delamain?

New comment by caycep in "Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived"

caycep — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:59:32 +0000

I kinda wonder if there was some secondary educational benefit for the workers doing this

New comment by caycep in "Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)"

caycep — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:51:37 +0000

I think this is true, and also a lot of tech, which often isn't as PR as the web/internet tech, gets funded by DOD/DARPA

That being said, I feel like a lot of the web-based tech, device tech etc came out of the liberal/leftist university environments, i.e. BSD unix, CERN, linux ish type projects. Berkeley/Stanford/MIT etc. So the culture of a lot of people who were rank and file and enthusiastic about this stuff from had this mindset.

New comment by caycep in "Apple is no longer thinking different"

caycep — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:54:36 +0000

More importantly, they made better versions with us consumers in mind, vs. their peers that made versions with the CIO of big Fortune 500 companies in mind...

New comment by caycep in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

caycep — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:22:53 +0000

Personal competition is one thing, but competition against a corporation?

New comment by caycep in "Alzheimer's trial to test drug on people without symptoms to test prevention"

caycep — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:41:11 +0000

I'm not about to do Donna Ferguson's work for free

New comment by caycep in "AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded"

caycep — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:39:52 +0000

I have the one a level up, the phantom gaming one. Those have been solid, maybe better components? Although they do have the inherited issues from using the Intel I225v NIC...