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Re:Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-nam... by boogies on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:14PM (#29121320)
Because you can already `shuf -n 1 /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx` (or mnames for male ones) or `vis-menu /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx >> momlikednames.list`, and `cat {mom,dad}likednames.list | sort | uniq -d` to find names both parents like.

`shuf /usr/share/dict/words` was how I picked my HN username.

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Re:Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-nam... by ape4 on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:03PM (#29123461)
Why not... `head -c8 /dev/random | base64`
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Re:Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-nam... by jokethrowaway on Saturday November 06, 2021 @07:25AM (#29129285)
That's exactly what we did, albeit the final list was filtered by grandma as well, non digitally
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