Hacker News: DuckConference

New comment by DuckConference in "Account bans on Reddit"

DuckConference — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:20:37 +0000

As a regular reddit user I can say that they aren't nearly aggressive enough about banning LLM generated spam, tons of smaller subreddits I used to enjoy following are getting choked with very obvious (it even fails pangram) AI spam posts.

New comment by DuckConference in "Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health"

DuckConference — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:18:02 +0000

Google scholar link since that one didn't work for me: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Chal...

Yikes, didn't realize that the 2009 stand included a few really silly things like that. Yes, the 2026 stand is overall pretty decent and doesn't have much objectionable in it.

New comment by DuckConference in "The browser's main thread is expensive"

DuckConference — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:24:37 +0000

I started reading and it immediately sounded like AI, sent it to pangram and it agreed. The amount of posts praising it like it's fuckin oxygen or something ... dead fuckin internet

New comment by DuckConference in "SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030"

DuckConference — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:58:21 +0000

Those skeptical are anticipating a possible large drop in demand before that backlog clears. ie. a change in market conditions that means that many of the orders in that backlog would be cancelled or belong to bankrupt entities.

Many words have already been spilled as to whether or not that might happen, so I'll just shrug rather than adding to them.

New comment by DuckConference in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

DuckConference — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:06:25 +0000

> has now widened from the initial +175bps to a whopping +231bps doing more than two-thirds of the work.

2.31% spread over treasuries is heading for junk bond status?

New comment by DuckConference in "Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)"

DuckConference — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:41:56 +0000

Yes. Most modern sunscreens are photostable, but even if you aren't going in water or sweating, just moving around (and thus scrunching and un-scrunching your skin on a micro level over and over again) is enough to mess up the sunscreen layer you put on your skin.

New comment by DuckConference in "Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch"

DuckConference — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:44:54 +0000

No, they're regular LPDDR dice from one of the big manufacturers that are mounted on the same package as the SoC.

New comment by DuckConference in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

DuckConference — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:40:18 +0000

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.

New comment by DuckConference in "C constructs that still don't work in C++"

DuckConference — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:49:41 +0000

It didn't stand out to me on first read but pangram gives it a high confidence rating as being written by AI.

New comment by DuckConference in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

DuckConference — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:52:22 +0000

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?

New comment by DuckConference in "Apple Discontinues Mac Pro"

DuckConference — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:01:37 +0000

While it's a rumour site:

> Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.

New comment by DuckConference in "Training Center for Maneuvering on Manned Model Ships"

DuckConference — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:55:36 +0000

Was somewhat famously parodied in a naked gun movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NJspRcfYM

New comment by DuckConference in "Waymo Safety Impact"

DuckConference — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:18:44 +0000

The lights up on top will show a walk sign when it's waiting for a pedestrian to cross before proceeding.

New comment by DuckConference in "The MacBook Neo"

DuckConference — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:07:19 +0000

Please don't link to LLM generated crap.

New comment by DuckConference in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

DuckConference — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:06:49 +0000

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.

New comment by DuckConference in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

DuckConference — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:42:27 +0000

Most clothes washer cycles are about an hour, is the motor really averaging 800 watts over that time?

New comment by DuckConference in "Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety"

DuckConference — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:02:42 +0000

There are tons of important health effects of exercise beyond caloric balance.

New comment by DuckConference in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

DuckConference — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:44:50 +0000

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?

New comment by DuckConference in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

DuckConference — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:38:43 +0000

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.

New comment by DuckConference in "GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders"

DuckConference — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:44:05 +0000

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.