Hacker News: robinduckett

New comment by robinduckett in "Drosophila Fly Brain Emulation"

robinduckett — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:54:54 +0000

I wonder if they’re just activating small parts of the brain at once. It seems to me that they aren’t simulating every single neuron at all times, and I do not see being able to run the model in real time. Are they also modelling the ventral nerve cord for the walking?

New comment by robinduckett in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

robinduckett — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:02:25 +0000

Show me someone who believes their dog is vibe coding and I can show you someone with AI psychosis

Just before people destroy me, I know this is a non serious blog post :P

New comment by robinduckett in "Google Antigravity"

robinduckett — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:29:16 +0000

Just sits on "Setting Up Your Account" pane and does nothing :)

New comment by robinduckett in "A race condition in Aurora RDS"

robinduckett — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:56:40 +0000

Glad to know I’m not crazy.

New comment by robinduckett in "Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models"

robinduckett — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:37:11 +0000

Exciting news, who watches the watchmen?

New comment by robinduckett in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

robinduckett — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:49:27 +0000

I just asked ChatGPT the following:

“Without looking it up, tell me about the Citiquetzelatropic effect”

Which is of course, nonsense.

It replied:

The term “Citiquetzelatropic effect” does not correspond to any known scientific concept, phenomenon, or recognized term in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, or related fields. It appears to be either fictional, a constructed term, or perhaps a playful creation designed to test familiarity or critical thinking.

If you intended this as a test or a trick question, you got me! Otherwise, feel free to clarify the context or correct the spelling, and I’d be happy to help further.

So what does this prove?

Motivation

robinduckett — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:17:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVxg3TMtk0M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557752

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by robinduckett in "City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once"

robinduckett — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 14:57:28 +0000

It seems to render each lane of the roads in my city seperately. It looks good at maximal zoom but worse if you zoom in.

New comment by robinduckett in "Trellis – 3D mesh generative model"

robinduckett — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:30:10 +0000

I can see the potential, but the images I give it must be very far outside of its training because all it generates are weird flat planes

New comment by robinduckett in "FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant"

robinduckett — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:06:02 +0000

They have oxymetazoline but I think the problem with this class of decongestants is that it is ineffective and dependency is basically guaranteed if used for more than a couple of days

New comment by robinduckett in "Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical)"

robinduckett — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:55:51 +0000

Cymru am byth!

New comment by robinduckett in "Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available"

robinduckett — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:06:40 +0000

Someone will say their brand of limitless energy is better than the competition, it’s human nature

New comment by robinduckett in "Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available"

robinduckett — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:55:28 +0000

My feelings are that if the basic income is not enough to cover the same privilege that the older generations have of home ownership and a pension covered lifestyle (food security, housing security, medical security) then it is not basic.

And also that if it was only given to some at a sliding scale, it is not universal.

Ask HN: Cloud Services Cost Reduction

robinduckett — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:22:27 +0000

Hi everyone,

I am looking for an actual software package or service which:

* Will iterate and display all resources on a given cloud provider (for instance, AWS)

* Show the current price per month of all resources

* Check usage of resources and show the capacity of those resources vs actual usage

* Make recommendations about cost reductions

So far, practically all I have found are simply a bidding platform for reserved instances or some esoteric software package that can estimate cost but not make recommendations for reductions or optimisations

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952622

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by robinduckett in "GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion"

robinduckett — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:14:21 +0000

Only last week I was trying to find out how to draw a dashed stroke on a path without needing a separate draw call for each dashed segment. I hope someone makes a library that uses this technique, it may be slightly beyond my abilities to implement myself.

New comment by robinduckett in "Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam"

robinduckett — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:52:21 +0000

I’d love to see this overlain on a map of Wales

New comment by robinduckett in "The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive"

robinduckett — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 12:19:13 +0000

They look like someone asked an AI to draw “Alien Sperm”

New comment by robinduckett in "Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player"

robinduckett — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:39:05 +0000

I honestly thought this would be this video: https://youtu.be/GjmFbgqFeMQ?si=zc983kptBZQsBLoK

New comment by robinduckett in "Show HN: I wrote a partial re-implementation of DirectMusic"

robinduckett — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 03:21:55 +0000

It is not backed by DirectMusic - the mng files just play wav files via whatever DirectSound equivalent for the platform (source files for the games are available in certain places)

New comment by robinduckett in "Goldene: A single atom layer of gold"

robinduckett — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:32:37 +0000

That side on view is wild and I didn’t know that the resolutions of electron microscopes had gotten that good where you can make out individual atoms. Insane.