<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: DuckConference</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DuckConference</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:33:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DuckConference" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, they're regular LPDDR dice from one of the big manufacturers that are mounted on the same package as the SoC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578612</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would assume 395MW is the nameplate capacity, so you would multiply it by a capacity factor and time to get the energy production in a specific interval. Capacity factor in hydro can vary a lot by season and how much they want to produce vs reservoir levels, but for a back of the envelope 100% capacity factor you have 395 MW × 8,760 hours/year = 3.46TWh/year . Capacity factor could be in the high 90s in good conditions and maximum production but I expect it's a lot lower unless it's a wet year with very few big maintenance jobs needed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:40:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548636</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "C constructs that still don't work in C++"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It didn't stand out to me on first read but pangram gives it a high confidence rating as being written by AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:49:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268236</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IDGI. How is a company that owns a bunch of infrastructure you almost have to use to put your service on the internet not more profitable such that they have to do layoffs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:52:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056659</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Apple Discontinues Mac Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While it's a rumour site:<p>> Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:01:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537453</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Training Center for Maneuvering on Manned Model Ships"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was somewhat famously parodied in a naked gun movie: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NJspRcfYM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NJspRcfYM</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:55:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478818</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Waymo Safety Impact"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The lights up on top will show a walk sign when it's waiting for a pedestrian to cross before proceeding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450069</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "The MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please don't link to LLM generated crap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:07:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346327</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's hard to say whether it's AI generated or just bad writing, but my eyes kept sliding off of it. The bolding for emphasis could be a sign it's LLM output though, whatever bot was popular to use for reddit posting a few months ago loved to randomly bold parts of its responses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:06:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310909</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Does that use a lot of energy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most clothes washer cycles are about an hour, is the motor really averaging 800 watts over that time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:42:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258347</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are tons of important health effects of exercise beyond caloric balance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:02:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145925</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It splits revenue out to 3 categories, "Productivity and Business Processes", "Intelligent Cloud", and "More Personal Computing", with windows as one of several things in the 3rd group. How did you figure it out as a 5th place revenue source?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977255</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Valve is about to win the console generation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tariffs/inflation/everything has raised the unit cost to the point that they're probably close to running a loss again sometimes on the latest gen consoles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:38:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923255</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On possibility I've seen raised is that slower GI movement -> slower alcohol uptake -> not getting as much of a "hit" from drinking as the effects come on more slowly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761293</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Amazon Says It Will Cut 14,000 Corporate Roles to Remove Layers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're saying a net 14,000 reduction after hiring, so it's possible that's consistent with the 30k total from the earlier rumours.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:47:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734398</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their performance claims are quite a bit ahead of the distributed android build systems that I've used, I'm curious what the secret sauce is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:46:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670916</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "iPad Pro with M5 chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As of a few ipadOS versions ago, the higher performance models can use swap space now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606916</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the famous small canadian mining companies that went under was named something like Bre-X, somehow a lot of members of the general public had shares of it so it was a big scandal on the news when it went under. Also as it was unraveling a whistleblower at the company "fell" from a helicopter in indonesia, I don't recall if anyone was ever charged or convicted for that.<p>EDIT: Oh damn it was far sketchier than I recalled and he wasn't a whistleblower. From wikipedia:<p><i>The fraud began to unravel rapidly beginning on March 19, 1997, when Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman reportedly died of suicide by jumping from a helicopter in Indonesia.[11][12] A body was found four days later in the jungle, missing the hands and feet, "surgically removed".[13] In addition, the body was reportedly mostly eaten by animals.[14] According to journalist John McBeth, a body had gone missing from the morgue of the town from which the helicopter flew. The remains of "de Guzman" were found only 400 metres from a logging road. No one saw the body except another Filipino geologist who claimed it was de Guzman. One of the five women who considered themselves to be his wife was receiving monetary payments from somebody long after the supposed death of de Guzman.[13]</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:18:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555459</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies and your employer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure Baumol has like 80% of the blame here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:57:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222843</link><dc:creator>DuckConference</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DuckConference in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Switzerland's extreme wealth makes them a bit of an outlier though, other european countries are probably a fairer comparisons for most places.</p>
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