<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: burtonator</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=burtonator</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:34:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=burtonator" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was a show that should have been two seasons, which they stretched into five.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:42:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435845</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm honestly confused as to why it is doing this and why it thinks I'm right when I tell it that it is incorrect.<p>I've tried asking it factual information, and it asserts that it's incorrect but it will definitely hallucinate questions like the above.<p>You'd think the reasoning would nail that and most of the chain-of-thought systems I've worked on would have fixed this by asking it if the resulting answer was correct.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 04:25:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528013</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Time to break up Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:12:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41317322</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41317322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41317322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Prompt Caching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Autoregressive models can't just resume so they have to re-parse the entire prompt again for each execution.<p>By caching them they resume from where it left off from before thereby completely bypassing all that computation.<p>For large contexts this could save a ton of compute!<p>I think this feature and structured outputs are some of the biggest inventions in LLMs this year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:09:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285038</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you're ever in a situation similar to this, run as fast and as far as you can.<p>I really really want to underscore this point.<p>You're literally standing on top of ground and under that is boiling water.<p>If that breaks and you fall in you're going to be in boiling water with no way to get out and you will die screaming.<p>Also NEVER walk on ground that has no vegetation.  If you look around a geyser you will see that the ground is white and has no vegetation. That's because the temperature is too high and it has water under it that's heating the ground.<p>Walk on that and there's a chance you will fall in.<p>In the back country there are no fences so you can fall right through the crust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:07:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41059240</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41059240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41059240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Windows 3.1 saves Southwest Airlines during CrowdStrike outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Windows 7 wouldn't have saved them if they used Crowdstrike.  This was the problem.  :-/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027991</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He got us out of Afghanistan too... this was a huge win and was very risky. Doesn't get enough credit for this one.<p>Agreed on NATO + Ukraine too but I wish they would allow us to strike Russia directly even with NATO equipment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 20:40:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027898</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All this old SGI and SUN equipment was super cool.  It was all before my time but it was all super high end and really well built.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:34:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763565</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for posting this. I with more people were aware of this law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:32:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651139</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Ask HN: Why don't VCs just "suck it up" and pay founders a competitive salary?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feature that benefits who? the VCs? I think that's what you're trying to say (with sarcasm).<p>Correct me if I'm wrong though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433964</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Elon Musk encourages consumer adoption of Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2024 ..year of Linux on the Desktop!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 20:16:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433317</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Why don't VCs just "suck it up" and pay founders a competitive salary?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most startup founders and early employees make about 1/2 of what they can working for MAANG companies.<p>IMO this leads to the following problems:<p>1. Most startups that COULD exist are never actually started because the founders want to be making higher salaries working at Google/Microsoft/Meta/etc.<p>2. The only founders that actually move forward are ones that have a significant amount of cash in the back from previous startups.<p>3. The founders and investors aren't properly aligned.  The founders want to exit but the investors want them to go long so that they get their unicorn exit.<p>Now #3 is mitigated in some situations by having the founders do 'partial founder buyout' where they sell some of their equity into the next round for a few million dollars each.<p>But this is an admission that there's a problem.<p>It just seems like everyone would be better off if VCs would just get over it and put in more cash and allow their portfolio companies to pay more competitive salaries.<p>I know this is happening in the AI space right now with companies paying more to pick up top talent - so they don't go to work for MAANG.<p>This is inherently bad for startup employees and they are directly subsidizing profits for the VCs.<p>The VCs get to diversify but the startup employees don't.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433266">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433266</a></p>
<p>Points: 44</p>
<p># Comments: 71</p>
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<p>Yeah... rock hard!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:45:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734413</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There must be a relationship here between Shannon's estimation that english is 1 bit of entropy per character and is highly redundant and 'easy' to predict.<p>A highly advanced AI could compress the text and predict the next sequences easily.<p>This seems like a direct connection like electricity and magnetism.<p>And maybe that's why English needs to be about 1 bit because we're not very intelligent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:46:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37153548</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37153548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37153548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want ONE breakthrough like this in my lifetime. Something completely game changing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:04:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888400</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's like hearing stories about people hating the first automobiles because they weren't horses.<p>The education bubble is about to implode - it will probably be one of the first industries killed by AI.</p>
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<p>It's really disturbing to me how many people don't realize it's not possible.<p>It's like asking a 747 to be made into a dog.<p>It's completely nonsensical to me.</p>
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<p>Not me. I'm working hard not to die. I have a whole plan for it :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:34:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703140</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd go further and say if only corporations with government license are allowed to create LLMs, then we should NOT have LLMs.<p>Let the market develop organically.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 00:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35969978</link><dc:creator>burtonator</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35969978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35969978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by burtonator in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the 2000s I was addicted to Elisp and contributed a ton of OSS code including JDE, EDEE, and tons of other tools.<p>But... I had just a MASSIVE amount of code that was literally just for me.<p>Emacs basically became my OS.<p>Emacs allowed you to just eval code on the fly and the IDE would just adapt. No reload required.  So if you wanted to do stupid stuff like make control+enter open the current URL at the cursor, you just write a three line script.  Then you add it to your elisp on load.<p>... but mine got WAY out of hand. It was just mountains of code.</p>
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