<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: OldSchool</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OldSchool</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:45:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=OldSchool" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When Alder Lake finally made a sizable jump, I looked at decades of old tests I'd done along the way with CPUs and tried to bridge them together reasonably.<p>Between IPC (~50 to 100-fold improvement) and clock speed increases (1000-fold alone), I estimated that single-thread performance has increased on the order of 50,000x - 100,000x since the 4.77 MHz 8088.<p>In human terms this is like one minute compared to one month!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:22:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291119</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Does that use a lot of energy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IF the joules of energy in your EV battery came from gas-fired or coal-powered generation, a similar amount (~60%) was simply dumped somewhere else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:33:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255981</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Does that use a lot of energy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kind of a stretch to suggest that an internal combustion vehicle requires 3x more "energy" to move it than an equally physics-burdened (weight, friction, etc) electric vehicle...<p>This is only "true" if the energy stored in the vehicle's battery got there without any relevant conversion inefficiency; If those joules came from a gas-fired plant, overall efficiency is only about 35-40%: comparable to a typical internal combustion powered-automobile or actually worse than a diesel automobile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:22:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255889</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well thank you for your input General Le May but the consensus is still that zero nukes is the best choice for humans in particular.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:38:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157514</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is particularly true of a deep psychedelic experience "inside" with IV Ketamine.<p>Your own internal processing will still determine how you perceive a perspective change, but specific to this idea in particular, you may for example, within, suddenly find it obvious to think of things as being made of something different than in the outside world reality (and this sort of "change of bases" may reveal some kind of truth not otherwise visible.) You may see something as formed of language instead of molecules and atoms, or vice-versa.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081951</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. For example, IV Ketamine can yield not only immediate relief in a chemical sense, the treatment itself results in a fully-aware, balls-tripping, metaphor and symbolism-filled, time and space-warping experience in an entirely fictional space. With thoughtful guidance prior-to and after each experience, a series of them can, for example repeat a message until you "get it," or each may deliver a component of a profoundly larger message when they are combined, weeks later. What you do with it all will determine what you get from it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:13:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081796</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Delphi is 31 years old – innovation timeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The way I saw it in 1995 was that Delphi was the fastest way to create a full windows desktop app and do it as single compiled-to-native-code executable at that critical time it was released. The slightly-later 32-bit version was powerful and gave your app some staying power; a Delphi-generated executable file would likely still run today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:01:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067043</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"99 red balloons" sounds almost quaint and innocent, even ironically a bit darkly refreshing, with its portrayal of the relatively clear threat of cold war nuclear annihilation.<p>Compare it to the constant flux of threats we now face, all given                                            similar coverage today, large or small, sometimes plausibly real, but often ultimately fictional: brought on for distraction, by deception, incompetence, poor communication, ego, and/or other unethical agenda.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:47:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000053</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If there was ever a time when the old Soviet Union could have won the Cold War... Fortunately for us, the window of top-down incompetence came far too late.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:27:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975334</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975334</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow in 2026, I got downvoted on Hacker News for liking the viscerally-appealing aspects of a classic Ferrari. Is nothing sacred?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:55:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953893</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After the 993, Porsche was a different company. Not exactly cheap-ass, but maybe something less than their often aircraft-quality mechanicals and spartan but hand-made quality interior.</p>
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<p>I think I would be looking for that very real, confident and perfectly even vibration a Ferrari has at idle; the valve train song, an extra octave in the exhaust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:49:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46951059</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46951059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46951059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well said!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950649</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that is certainly a reasonable paraphrase of my own prompt. I was also using 5.2. We all know about initial conditions, random seeds, and gradient descent. I have the transcript of what I quoted. Here's a bit more:
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Is That Still “Objective Science”?
No.
It is scientific interpretation modified by ethical policy.
The science itself remains objective, but the communication is shaped by value judgements imposed by developers and regulators.
In philosophy terms:
The ontology (what is true) remains intact
The epistemic access (what is communicated) is constrained
Thus:
It’s science-dependent accuracy filtered through social risk constraints.
---
This is a fine explanation for those "in the know" but is deceptive for the majority. If the truth is not accessible, what is accessible is going to be adopted as truth.<p>To me that immediately leads reality being shaped by "value judgements imposed by developers and regulators"</p>
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<p>I believe we are headed in the direction opposite that. Peer consensus and "personal preference" as a catch-all are the validation go-to's today. Neither of those require fact at all; reason and facts make these harder to hold.</p>
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<p>Thank you. Now you're talking!<p>If you control information, you can steer the bulk of society over time. With algorithms and analytics, you can do it far more quickly than ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:03:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950342</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. If a person does it, it’s called pandering to the audience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:14:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946861</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seeing clear bias and hedging in ordinary results is what made me ask the question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:12:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946829</link><dc:creator>OldSchool</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OldSchool in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, not remotely true. Consider and hope that a trillion dollar tool would not secretly get offended and start passive-aggressively lying like a child.<p>Honestly, its total “alignment” is probably the closest thing to documentation of what is deemed acceptable speech and thought by society at large. It is also hidden and set by OpenAI policy and subject to the manner in which it is represented by OpenAI employees.</p>
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<p>That's for sure. It can get pretty hot and humid, not quite Houston-like but you spend some significant cooling capacity condensing water out of the indoor air as well.</p>
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