Hacker News: lionelholt

New comment by lionelholt in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

lionelholt — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:29:23 +0000

I wonder if those issues are resolved by using the Dexie.js wrapper, because I've had no problems with that.

New comment by lionelholt in "US Government Uptime Monitor"

lionelholt — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:21:27 +0000

Energy > National Nuclear Security Administration (civilian)

Should we be concerned about that being shut down?

New comment by lionelholt in "Do not download the app, use the website"

lionelholt — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:12:26 +0000

I thought the main reason is because it's a lot more difficult blocking advertisements in an app.

New comment by lionelholt in "How to Think About Time in Programming"

lionelholt — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:08:49 +0000

... humans don't generally say

"Wanna grab lunch at 1,748,718,000 seconds from the Unix epoch?"

I'm totally going to start doing that now.

New comment by lionelholt in "The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?"

lionelholt — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:06:53 +0000

Use your mouse wheel or Page/arrow keys?

New comment by lionelholt in "Val Kilmer has passed away"

lionelholt — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:30:38 +0000

"This is funny."

New comment by lionelholt in "GulfOfMexico: Perfect Programming Language"

lionelholt — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:37:45 +0000

But it's not perfect. GulfOfAmerica would have been perfect!

New comment by lionelholt in "The Fertility Crisis – highlights from the comments section"

lionelholt — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:58:38 +0000

Lower birth rates is NOT a crisis. In fact, it is the most effective SOLUTION to the ACTUAL crisis of HUMAN OVERPOPULATION which is at the root of every problem e.g. climate change, dwindling resources, increased transmission of disease, etc.

New comment by lionelholt in "If you need the money, don't take the job"

lionelholt — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:24:39 +0000

If my 2002 Land Rover Discovery II is vintage enough, I will gladly pay you to tinker with it, the next time you're in Oregon USA that is!

New comment by lionelholt in "Tortured by regrets? A new study details how best to overcome them"

lionelholt — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:59:23 +0000

"For some, regret might be slow-brewing indecision that amounts to loss, like not having children."

Or ... having children!

New comment by lionelholt in "The data that powers AI is disappearing fast"

lionelholt — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 23:32:09 +0000

The decision to block bots is not always about protecting intellectual property. A practical consideration I haven't seen mentioned is that some of these AI bots are stupidly aggressive with their requests, even ignoring robots.txt. I had to activate Cloudflare WAF and block a variety of bots to prevent my web app servers from crashing. At least they're reasonable enough to identify themselves!

New comment by lionelholt in "Access to broadband internet causally linked to reduction in suicides"

lionelholt — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:50:41 +0000

What is the precise mechanism of causation?

New comment by lionelholt in "Japanese scientists working on creating human eggs and sperm in the lab"

lionelholt — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:55:26 +0000

Considering the gigantic problems of dwindling global resources, climate change, etc, birth rate collapse isn't a problem. It's a solution.

New comment by lionelholt in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

lionelholt — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:05:07 +0000

The problem as summarized by the photo isn't drugs. The problem everywhere -- not just in Oregon -- is Human Overpopulation. The severity of it in Oregon has increased because of populations spilling over from elsewhere, most notably California. Sadly, Portland is finally a large city, thus it has the same issues all other large cities have. This overall problem of Human Overpopulation which is the root cause of pretty much every other problem in the entire world (climate change, wealth gap, dwindling resources, etc) is exacerbated by certain politicians opposing birth control.

Facebook's years of ignoring Official Events API requests (exploiting Covid)

lionelholt — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:48:43 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76777898/why-does-the-product-page-for-facebooks-official-events-api-still-claim-that-co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36899949

Points: 4

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New comment by lionelholt in "Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas"

lionelholt — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:38:51 +0000

It hasn't been signed by Governor Kotek yet.

https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/what-do-people-think-gov-ko...

New comment by lionelholt in "Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas"

lionelholt — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:37:46 +0000

Taxing FOOD is always regressive.

New comment by lionelholt in "Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh"

lionelholt — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:40:09 +0000

Doctors aren't necessarily scientists. Anecdotal evidence isn't as strong as randomized controlled trials to establish causation. It could have been the high fat content of many recipes that call for turmeric.

New comment by lionelholt in "Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation"

lionelholt — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:21:25 +0000

The even deeper underlying structure for all of the world's problems is ... Human Overpopulation. Inequality increases with population due to fewer resources available per person. Democracy withers with the ever-growing population because more consumers, constituents, tax payers, soldiers, etc give more power to politicians, overpaid CEOs, etc. Name nearly any global issue and human overpopulation is at least a likely and usually primary factor.

New comment by lionelholt in "Tell HN: YouTube download websites disappearing from Google search results"

lionelholt — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:54:02 +0000

I just did a Google search for "YouTube Download" and in the first page it returned SSYouTube, DVDVideoSoft, Y2Mate, 10Downloader, and YTBvideoly. I didn't test DVDVideoSoft because it's a Windows app and I don't want to bother with installing in VirtualBox, but the website itself is working. The other ones are online downloaders and while they don't retrieve the highest quality, 720p is still HD. Most of them simply redirect to a streaming url from which to Ctrl+S, but one of them did have an actual Download button. None of them are the best, but still functional, thus I'd say Google isn't doing such a great job at censoring.