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New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?"

duckkg5 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:45:27 +0000

I come back to the video every once in a while and it is total zen.

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

duckkg5 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:25:07 +0000

I was into woodworking, then I got into building fly fishing rods from bamboo.

Fly fishing has been around for a long time. They used to build rods by hand out of bamboo - a specific species of bamboo native to southern China - before factories started making them out of graphite, fiberglass, etc. for cheap.

Modern fly rods are a few hundred bucks. If you try to buy a bamboo rod in a store, they run $2K-$5K. They take a lot of time and meticulous work to build, and the result is a functional work of art.

Woodworking is a ton of fun, and challenging. Bamboo rod making is a niche within a niche, and there are not a whole lot of people who still do it ... mostly retired guys with a lot of time. It's a great tradition, and it's about as far away from computers and technology as I can get.

I didn't even know how to fly fish until I built my first bamboo rod.

Here's a great video showing the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTvRxcTuV0

New comment by duckkg5 in "Digg is gone again"

duckkg5 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:47:55 +0000

Digg may have a bot problem but Reddit isn't far behind. So many subreddits are full of slop that they've become useless and/ or completely unreliable.

What's an actual viable solution to this kind of thing?

CATPCHAs aren't it. Maybe micro-fees to actually post things would discourage bot posting? I really don't know.

Seems like it's just dead internet all over the place these days.

New comment by duckkg5 in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

duckkg5 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:22:57 +0000

Right now the page says Copilot and Actions are affected but I can't even push anything to a repo from the CLI.

New comment by duckkg5 in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

duckkg5 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:15:47 +0000

I would so very much love to see GitHub switch gears from building stuff like Copilot etc and focus on availability

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

duckkg5 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:49:54 +0000

ModPhone.ai | Business Development | REMOTE (US) | Commission + Equity | modphone.ai

AI-powered phone/SMS/email/chat platform for schools, cities, and SMBs. Live paying customers, 60-second setup, multilingual.

Role: Own outbound—cold calls, LinkedIn, email. You eat what you kill. Comp: Uncapped commission (20-30% of first-year ACV) + early equity. Path to base as you prove out.

You: Hungry, self-directed, comfortable on the phone. Bonus: E-rate/EdTech/GovTech experience.

Founder-track role. Small technical team (ex-Google, GitHub) and seasoned sales team (20+ years in telecom).

Email hello@modphone.ai

New comment by duckkg5 in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

duckkg5 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:51:56 +0000

Why not just use the mobile app? It has Claude Code built in. Maybe I'm an unsophisticated idiot but it works well for me. Some shortcomings with repo management but other than that, CC mobile seems ... fine

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

duckkg5 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:03:01 +0000

ModPhone.ai | Business Development | REMOTE (US) | Commission + Equity | modphone.ai

AI-powered phone/SMS/email/chat platform for schools, cities, and SMBs. Live paying customers, 60-second setup, multilingual.

Role: Own outbound—cold calls, LinkedIn, email. You eat what you kill. Comp: Uncapped commission (20-30% of first-year ACV) + early equity. Path to base as you prove out.

You: Hungry, self-directed, comfortable on the phone. Bonus: E-rate/EdTech/GovTech experience.

Founder-track role. Small technical team (ex-Google, GitHub) and seasoned sales team (20+ years in telecom).

Email hello@modphone.ai

New comment by duckkg5 in "Asterisk AI Voice Agent"

duckkg5 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:23:40 +0000

Absolutely not.

500-1000ms is borderline acceptable.

Sub-300ms is closer to SOTA.

2000ms or more means people will hang up.

New comment by duckkg5 in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

duckkg5 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:43:58 +0000

Merry Christmas to one of the last great internet communities that I actually like to interact with

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

duckkg5 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:40:02 +0000

Thank you. I'm not doing any marketing at all. In fact I noticed about a third of the traffic comes from ChatGPT of all places. I guess that's just from the SEO. But users keep trying it out, maybe because it's really simple to start. Just call the number.

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: How do small businesses handle phone calls?"

duckkg5 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:45:04 +0000

Let's do it, how do I reach you?

Ask HN: How to manage inbound calls/ emails/ texts etc.

duckkg5 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:18:48 +0000

I am very bad at this.

If you're running a business or working at one with lots of customers reaching out across channels ... what system do you use?

CRMs are hit or miss for me. I just keep a text file open with the stuff i need to follow up on when something does come in. But I lose context and can't prioritize right, or I just forget, then people get annoyed.

There has to be a better way ... right?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312972

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

duckkg5 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:11:34 +0000

Cold call training aka 'exposure therapy'

https://coldcallgym.com

Just a call a number and practice a cold call with a bot. People seemed to like it when I built it so I made a free and paid tier. Getting like 3-5 new users per day without really doing anything.

Ask HN: How do small businesses handle phone calls?

duckkg5 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:04:18 +0000

If you run or work at a small business: cell phones, landline, VoIP, or something else?

What sucks about your current setup?

What would you like to see instead?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218455

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

New comment by duckkg5 in "Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes"

duckkg5 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:47:23 +0000

Watching surfers in the middle of this park was one of my favorite things to do in Munich. What a bummer. I'd be surprised if they had any luck at all restoring it.

New comment by duckkg5 in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

duckkg5 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:15:51 +0000

Not accurate. You are probably looking at a site like https://libgen.ac/ which states clearly at the top: "Not a Part of Library Genesis. ex libgen.io, libgen.org"

The real one has been down for a long time.

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"

duckkg5 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 03:51:48 +0000

This is relatable. Once one gets over the frustration of failing and making mistakes (thousands of times in some cases), it becomes fun and easier to stay curious.

New comment by duckkg5 in "Ask HN: Is anyone using AI conversation partners?"

duckkg5 — Wed, 28 May 2025 03:53:14 +0000

I made a phone-based one to teach me how to cold call because I fucking hate cold calling but needed to learn to sell

New comment by duckkg5 in "The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)"

duckkg5 — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:58:39 +0000

$155 seems like a lot. I do this with a $5 pi zero and a $5 adapter and it works flawlessly.