<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: delusional</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=delusional</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=delusional" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> NASA spending has created a huge pile of technologies that we use day to day<p>We're a little too early to know if that's the case here too. I do foresee a chance at a reality where AI is a dead end, but after it we have a ton of cheap GPU compute lying about, which we all rush to somehow convert into useful compute (by emulating CPU's or translating traditional algorithms into GPU oriented ones or whatever).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:37:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813955</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Wasn't their previous attempt at running vending machines unprofitable?<p>If we are talking about the one at that newspaper, it wasnt just unprofitable. The "customers" made it give away products for free. It was ordering them playstations.<p>As entertainment it was fun, but as a business or proof of intelligence or Turing test, it was an abject failure.</p>
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<p>That's a terrible argument on the face of it. "They can't make any energy, but also they make so much energy they can't use it all".<p>I actually live in Denmark, and we can produce solar energy just fine. My dad installed rooftop solar 10 years ago, and that thing has 90% of his electricity usage since then. It's still producing at around 85% capacity too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:57:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756411</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does not ignore the word. It subverts it, and that's the point. It's the system equivalent of "death of the author", which states that omes a work is written, the authors intent loses relevance and the work must be examined on its own. The aurhors opinion or relationship to the work carries no more weight than any other persons.<p>That's not "true" in any demonstrable sense, but it can be a useful form of analysis. As it is with "purpose of a system"</p>
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<p>> But in general, identifiers have little currency outside the system that generated them<p>That's clearly wrong, because if it were true we wouldn't be able to identify anything. Identifiers are only useful in so far as some external party assigns a meaning to the identifier. Two systems MUST pick a common idwntifier to discuss a person. They MUST pick an identifier to discuss a technical field. They MUST even pick an identifier to discuss a technical protocol.<p>Identifiers are everywhere. They'll usually be translated into something internal at the edge of a system, but I bet the PNR is too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:43:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736759</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your complaints about AI are largely about the industrial energy use, the poor quality of service, and the displacement of human labor, wasting more CPU time doesn't seem like a viable or useful protest. The lesson Burger King would take away from your DDoS protest isn't that they should provide better customer service, but that they shouldn't provide any customer service. You'd be giving them free cover to blame consumers for making customer service too expensive.</p>
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<p>If you bought a bunch of hardware to mine bitcoins, then not using that hardware represents a 100% loss of value. You may lose money producing, but you would lose even more money not producing.</p>
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<p>What does "the year of the Linux phone" mean when half the phones already run Linux?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704387</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Prior to the industrial revolution, the natural world was nearly infinitely abundant.<p>>We had to invent giant legal systems in order to determine who has the right to do that and who doesn't.<p>Excuse me? The industrial revolution was like 300 years ago. We had laws before that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:21:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696450</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm struggling to find the right description<p>I think you're circling the concept of a "soul". It is the reason that, in non-communicative disabled people, we still see a life.<p>I've wanted to make an art piece. It would be a chatbox claiming to connect you to the first real intelligence, but that intelligence would be non-communicative. I'd assure you that it is the most intelligent being, that it had a soul, but that it just couldn't write back.<p>Intelligence and Soul is not purely measurable phenomenon. A man can do nothing but stupid things, say nothing but outright lies, and still be the most intelligent person. Intelligence is within.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:42:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692675</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Some people point at LLMs confabulating, as if this wasn’t something humans are already widely known for doing.<p>Are you seriously making the argument that AI "hallucinations" are comparable and interchangeable to mistakes, omissions and lies made by humans?<p>You understand that calling AI errors "hallucinations" and "confabulations" is a metaphor to relate them to human language? The technical term would be "mis-prediction", which suddenly isn't something humans ever do when talking, because we don't predict words, we communicate with intent.</p>
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<p>I think it's absolutely hilarious.<p>> Ohh my precious baby, you've been oh so smart in writing to me.<p>He says, before dismantling everything reported in the issue. If the depth of thinking was so great (maybe if he had ULTRATHINK'd?) You'd think he would have found an actual problem.</p>
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<p>Apparently no. They'll be fixing it themselves? It really reads like Claude run amok on the blog.<p>> We are actively working on a fix that is better than rebooting — a targeted workaround that addresses the frozen tcp_now without requiring a full system restart. Until then, schedule your reboots before the clock runs out.</p>
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<p>Thanks for writing a reply. I was wondering why this comment was floating around 0. I realize it's pretty contentious politics on HN, but I figured the philosophical point is at least interesting anyway, and that HN would be able to separate the two. Your reply helps me adjust that assumption.</p>
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<p>As a European, it is wild to see a private company warning that disallowing them the ability to process your personal data might hinder your ability to access social services.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:46:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658371</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a fundamental problem of value creation and value extraction. Just because the ISP's can't extract the value of adding the additional fiber capacity doesn't mean it doesn't confer that value to the customers. We live in an age of value extraction, what's colloquially known as "enshittification", that can't go on forever. Somebody has to create the value that is being extracted.<p>It's the old Marx quote: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". Except you know, the opposite.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658260</link><dc:creator>delusional</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by delusional in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can't really call something a "Copilot" (implying it's helping you fly the plane) while simultaneously saying it's just for entertainment.<p>It's just very hard to get someone to purchase "Microsoft Clown" in their enterprise subscription.</p>
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<p>It's a little like asking a cokehead how the addiction is going for him while he is high. Obviously he's going to say it's great because the consequences haven't hit him. Some percentage of addicts will never realize it was a problem at all.<p>Its not random that AI happens to be built by the very same people that turned internet forums into the most addictive communication technology ever.</p>
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<p>> Unless the goal isn’t a productive outcome, but just to be mean?<p>Some people are just mean. They spend their angry little lives walking around "outraged" by any minor inconvenience. They assume every single little happenstance was designed to make them miserable.<p>The greatest thing about having a good education and working with other experts is that I generally don't meet this people that much, but I remember them all too well.</p>
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<p>Time x capacity is also a limit. There's always a limit.</p>
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