Hacker News: mrastro

New comment by mrastro in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

mrastro — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:49:28 +0000

Beautiful. Congrats on the beta launch

New comment by mrastro in "No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner"

mrastro — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:16:49 +0000

Source? I doubt many making north of 300k per year are living paycheck to paycheck. It's hard to not save money (like at least 10%) at that income imo.

New comment by mrastro in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

mrastro — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:48:10 +0000

I'm surprised it's that low to be honest. By their definition of any mental illness, it can be anything from severe schizophrenia to mild autism. The subset that would consider suicide is a small slice of that.

Would be more meaningful to look at the % of people with suicidal ideation.

New comment by mrastro in "The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping"

mrastro — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:22:03 +0000

The inequality on dating apps is very high. Their Gini coefficients vary from 0.4 to 0.6 on most popular dating apps. Even if 100% of people were using dating apps, only the top percentiles of men would be satisfied because they can get way more short-term partners than they could without the apps.

To the extent hookups lead to relationships, it's coming from people that are willing to settle

New comment by mrastro in "Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)"

mrastro — Wed, 14 May 2025 22:53:08 +0000

The word "gun" itself seems to work. Package this as a game and you've got a pretty fun game on your hands :)

New comment by mrastro in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

mrastro — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:46:36 +0000

Opposite the "cozy" part of the game. OP's game is infamously challenging.

New comment by mrastro in "Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds"

mrastro — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 03:27:51 +0000

No, we pay far more attention to people acting weirdly because it's interesting. 99% of CCTV footage will be uneventful and normal.

New comment by mrastro in "Mexico issues legal threat to Google"

mrastro — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:34:24 +0000

This entire issue is a waste of time, the executive order, the GNIS database update, subsequent lawsuits, and news articles like this.

How is this helping anyone? Is it a distraction for actual substantive changes (positive or negative) Trump is making?

New comment by mrastro in "Show HN: A Valentine's Day experience for people who aren't celebrating"

mrastro — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:36:31 +0000

Most of the IP to coarse location databases cost money and/or require backend work to setup. Totally reasonable to skip that money/effort for a fun project like this!

New comment by mrastro in "Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'"

mrastro — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:14:07 +0000

Maybe Trump's plan to make Canada part of the United States, just rename Canada to the "United States" in the GNIS database and they appear part of the same country (at least within the real "United States" borders, Google implements names based on a Geo fence for each country).

New comment by mrastro in "Walmart boosts some top managers to over $600k a year"

mrastro — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:41:19 +0000

Until we get a breakdown of the salary distribution, the increased cap is meaningless. The cap could be 10M/year and 0% of managers would get it. An increase in the median pay would be meaningful.

New comment by mrastro in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

mrastro — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:58:37 +0000

Generally a good idea, but there are edge cases that need to be handled for this to work.

A copyrighted video might not be uploaded to YouTube, in which case you'd have to fall back on the video creation date, which would have to be manually added in their DB (e.g. Hollywood produced movies).

You can also have leaks of videos before their official release. Admittedly a rare scenario that should can be accounted for in other ways (i.e. skip this check if before upload).

New comment by mrastro in "Every V4 UUID"

mrastro — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:46:21 +0000

There's a button in the bottom right so you can access the search functionality from the UI that allows you to use their search on mobile.

This may have been added after your comment.

New comment by mrastro in "Sqlc: Data access simplified. Throw away your ORM"

mrastro — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:37:22 +0000

Is the question about how to version the query? You have comments before the query that allow you to name the exported function so you could have both queries and name them something different.

New comment by mrastro in "Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers"

mrastro — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:24:11 +0000

Isn't that every credit card? You pay your full balance on time it's essentially a delayed debit card because no interest is paid.

New comment by mrastro in "When net worth stops mattering"

mrastro — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:52:26 +0000

Agree, if the portfolio money is invested it is not useless because it's generating income to live above the "unspent money".

New comment by mrastro in "OpenAI asks investors not to back rival startups such as Elon Musk's xAI"

mrastro — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 01:10:13 +0000

This is why Bill Gates is in a different tier of billionaire. He's super diversified from his Microsoft shares at this point after slowly selling for years, compared to Elon and others.

New comment by mrastro in "Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe code"

mrastro — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 01:21:06 +0000

It can do joins. By default it combines the query into a single flatten struct but you have the option to write the query to embed entities in the join.

Not perfect and doesn't maintain the same type if you want a subset of columns but works for the majority of cases.

New comment by mrastro in "Gimp 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer to Release"

mrastro — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:18:35 +0000

First time hearing this too. IIUC, it's preventing changes to text strings in the product that would require translation from the various language teams (per: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_String_Freeze_Policy).

I don't understand why they stagger the freezes for the translation and the binary development, I assume it's to still allow for last-minute big fixes to make it in before the final release cut?

New comment by mrastro in "Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?"

mrastro — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:28:13 +0000

Do gas stations have a special deal with the card processors then? Basically all of them have a lower cash price.