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banks also often have multiple domains - different one for transactional emails, different one for statements etc.

Instead of auto-locking it should be possible as user to configure the list of allowed domains that land there.

Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:47AM (#49741614)
they should pay you
The only thing I'll say is that it's great to see the feedback in this thread applied. It became very obvious to me what the tool is for and an abstract idea of what I can do with it.

However as others have said:

- A demo video would do a lot for your product.

- nit: Real-time markdown -> change to something that emphasizes collaboration/collaborative editing. For two reason - it's a much more familiar term in the space you are building and it's easier to understand (I think) for more people.

- A sample workspace (either public or a "starter workspace" that's available by default in a new account) that is non-trivial would be great to showcase your product. Look at obsidian using obsidian itself for it's own documentation site.

- Your about page is very well written - I wonder if you can pull up somethings from there onto the main page. https://hyperclast.com/about/

I didn't sign up yet however so can't provide more feedback.

Re:Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead (2016) on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:19AM (#46539766)
Doesn't help much because even the standard library bitrots after enough Python releases. I have things I write today but can't run on a NAS that has older Python. No issues like that with Powershell for example.
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:14PM (#46530168)
Which of those are evolving at the rate of frameworks?

BTW I'm of the opinion that frontend tooling developers should actually try to contribute things to HTML and CSS instead of building "component libraries" on top of them.

If the native controls were good and if the browsers allowed using "uniformly styled" versions of them then there would be no good reason for such libraries to exist.

Re:Cert Expirations disables Logitech keyboard and mice apps on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:54AM (#46527834)
It's both reassuring and frustrating. Reassuring because they decided to secure IPC somehow. Disappointing because this is such an unexpected failure mode.

My scroll direction broke, custom operations that I had apparently "saved" to the mouse also stopped working.

Codex for me behaves very junior engineer-ish. Claude is smarter and tries to think long term.

A great example of their behaviours for a problem that isn't 100% specified in detail (because detail would need iterations) is available at https://gist.github.com/hashhar/b1215035c19a31bbe4b58f44dbb4....

I gave both Codex (GPT5-ExHi) and Claude (Opus 4.5 Thinking) the exact same prompts and the end results were very different.

The most interesting bit was asking both of them to try to justify why there were differences and then critiquing each other's code. Claude was so good at this - took the best parts of GPTs code, fixed a bug there and ended up with a pretty nice implementation.

The Claude generated code was much more well-organised too (less script-like, more program like).

Re:Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:33AM (#46463455)
Redbook is also the Audio CD standard. Lots of redbooks exist.
Re:How private equity is changing housing on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:01PM (#46209860)
The area I live in has homes that remain empty because the investor doesn't need the capital nor the space and just holds empty units for multiple years when they eventually sell (for even more than they would have sold in the past).

Housing demand will always be > 0 as long as population is growing and hence there can never be a oversupply.

Re:Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp on Thursday November 20, 2025 @08:32AM (#45992362)
It's trivial to enumerate all the phone numbers in the world.
Re:Decibels Are Ridiculous on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:50AM (#44060139)
Going from -50dB to -44dB is a much louder change than going from -6dB to 0dB.

Human hearing is logarithmic. The dB is measuring ratio of sound pressure level and it's accurate that +/-3dB is almost doubling/halving of the SPL.

Re:Decibels Are Ridiculous on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:45AM (#44060102)
This is exactly it. The people who get confused by decibels are treating it a unit in it's own right when it's really just a ratio of some unit.
Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:17AM (#44027874)
You only really need SSH access on a box to use it as a git remote - no server needed.

I learnt this quite late and was not obvious to me so hope it's helpful for you too.

Not really. Downloads is out of bounds and the root folder is also out of bounds.
WhatsApp media lives in separate folder.

PDFs that I download live in downloads folder (which you can't give access to for some reason anyway).

Music lives elsewhere and so on.

Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative on Thursday April 17, 2025 @02:28AM (#43713699)
PlexAmp has DJs which allow you to get the song/playlist based radios.

LMS (Logitech now Lyrion) also has something similar in MusicIP (not as good as PlexAmp).

Plexamp can surely do bit-perfect playback, not vanilla Plex though.
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:48PM (#42719481)
I'm from India too (but at-least a generation older than this kid) and to clarify:

proposed = asking for a date or if he's too forward / self-centered then asking her to "be my girlfriend"

crush = a girl I like but haven't told that to her or shown it in public

And yes for kids in school it's quite common to initiate conversations through mutual friends because otherwise gossip spreads too quick and can sometimes be damaging (both emotionally and socially).

Yes, a lot of ISPs do this even after I try to write to them explaining why it doesn't make sense. My ISP is Airtel in India, they very recently started assigning IPv6 at all but it's a single /64 only.

The other big one I know, Jio (from Reliance) also offers just a single /64.

Re:Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @01:00PM (#41779410)
I'm not sure, there's also HOT-updates (heap-only tuples). It's an optimization where data in modified in place if none of the modified columns are part of an index and maybe other conditions but I don't remember it all too well.
By paperclip optimizing loop did you by any chance mean https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html?
IIRC USA is 110V, not 220V?
Re:Show HN: Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @07:52AM (#39690359)
> it would be nice to find an easy UXsy way to preview the sheet data and say "select from this range" or "these are the headers".

Indeed. Defining the UX when the only UI you have is a SQL query is a bit challenging.

Very impressive project indeed and solves a real problem a lot of people and companies have. I wish you luck.

Re:Show HN: Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @07:07AM (#39690075)
Very interesting. Seems conceptually (and implementation wise too) quite similar to https://trino.io/docs/current/connector/googlesheets.html.

Where are you storing the structure of the sheet though? Is it re-evaluated on each query? I am thinking about cases where a column header is renamed or the data types in a column are changed?

Re:CSS for printing to paper on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:41AM (#39588936)
Haha one of the examples has this text:

    By reading this sentence, you hereby agree to all terms and conditions
    presented by voussoir.net, including but not limited to terms which entitle
    voussoir.net to a fraction not less than forty (40) percent (%) of your
    monthly income from now until an as-yet undetermined time not less than
    thirty six (36) months from the present date.

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