Hacker News: ForOldHack

New comment by ForOldHack in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

ForOldHack — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:58:12 +0000

> except the high priests of the LLMs / nascent Cthulhu-oid godlings...

I did not say that, but is so obvious, like looking through a plate glass window. There is no pressure, its just a natural transition to the end of bipedal life.

New comment by ForOldHack in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

ForOldHack — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:56:00 +0000

This just simply removes the last vestiges of the old Republic, and leads the way to the common deployment of Chinese designed AI reactors, which while designed by AI, are really for the burning of the sky in preparation of a Matrix future. It has been foretold: It is the way.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

ForOldHack — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:33:17 +0000

Your intelligence is good, but mine is better. They could easily raise their prices until their user base falls to zero, and the offer steep discounts, but then... so could everybody else. We need to pimp all the speculators until they are bankrupt. Welcome to web 4.0b. "We will bury you."

New comment by ForOldHack in "Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke"

ForOldHack — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:51:39 +0000

I am sorry that you had to explain that, and even sorrier that many people failed the third grade. The fault lies not with the teachers, but the parents who do not know who's geologic fact either... it's stunning, but par for the course given the countries leadership.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Topologist's Map of the World"

ForOldHack — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:37:08 +0000

Yourube search for strange borders. The number of enclaves is staggering. Upon further inspection... fail.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Google Maps Now Shows 'Lake America' in US, Not 'Lake Ontario'"

ForOldHack — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:51:02 +0000

And Google maps does not show: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, House of Ill-repute? And Mark Zukerburd telling everyone he is going to spend $600 billion on AI in the next five years? Google maps will make itself insignificant. ( see my review of the North Atlantic ).

New comment by ForOldHack in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

ForOldHack — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:46:19 +0000

Everyone needs Lunatic Fringe.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?"

ForOldHack — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:20:23 +0000

If you read a lot, you start to get a feel for phone typos vs AI hiccups. I can guarantee that is post was made by a brain designed to eat berries in a cave. Almost all the another posts look a bit scary.

I think I misunderstood - how many posts were about AI vs how many posts were written by AI.

I obviously am suffering from berry fog.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada"

ForOldHack — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:08:44 +0000

Nothing you have ever thought or said in your life is more disgusting than the idiot who is causing this problem in the first place.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada"

ForOldHack — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:05:49 +0000

You must mean switch to bamboo based products from wood based paper. Way more sustainable, and not much more expensive, but as more switch, although it should become cheaper...

New comment by ForOldHack in "Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada"

ForOldHack — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:59:07 +0000

The Fraiser River Valley is one of the very most sustainable forests on the planet. The mineral extraction at Ft MacMurry has very little usable wood for lumber, and even less for paper, I believe that its a lot of manzinata that is used for OSB. I have not looked at this in a while, because my father studied forest management at UBC. Would you like for me to prove this with say 15~20 references?

New comment by ForOldHack in "Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada"

ForOldHack — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:10 +0000

Which is just going to make it more expensive to mail rolls to your congressmen. Congressmen and diapers should be changed often and for the same reason.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests"

ForOldHack — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:52:27 +0000

France's HSR network extenda into both Germany, and into Britans rail network. California just does not really care about HSR, and I live here. I have been a fan of BART since the day it opened and will be a fan until the day it closes which will be sooner than I think. Bus systems suck too.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests"

ForOldHack — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:46:04 +0000

"dubious climate histrionics." See Dr Jamie Abarca, MD et al, to put those claims into a real perspective. Published decades ago.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests"

ForOldHack — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:35:44 +0000

Brazil grows sugarcane just for this purpose, and Russia uses a weed... the Jerusalem Artichoke, grown as a weed, and made into biofeedback. I made biofeedback from both of these plants. But coconuts? That is coco nuts.

New comment by ForOldHack in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

ForOldHack — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:25:33 +0000

"I firmly believe that there is an all-knowing being guiding the universe, except for certain parts of New Jersey." -Woody Allen.

New comment by ForOldHack in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

ForOldHack — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:24:28 +0000

They made orange drink powder for the Apollo Missions. I KID YOU NOT!

New comment by ForOldHack in "Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward"

ForOldHack — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:23:33 +0000

Yes, this is very comprehensive, but only missing two things: Intelligence (IBM Mainframe ), Lotus H.A.L. ( Lotus 1-2-3 heuristic language processor ). ELiza came from LISP, MIT.

RACTOR wrote a book, "The policeman's beard is half constructed."

New comment by ForOldHack in "Banksy works cost public almost £150k"

ForOldHack — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:52:07 +0000

This thread should be nominated for the best of Hacker news.

New comment by ForOldHack in "Banksy works cost public almost £150k"

ForOldHack — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:04:07 +0000

Rediculous government ineffiency is multiple redundancies. Just government. They could replace it with another commissioned Banksy for half of that.