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Show HN: ClipCapsule – A Clipboard Manager for Linux (Built with Go and Wails)
by victorevogor | 2025-04-14 21:52:49+00:00
Hey HN

I built a tool called ClipCapsule, a clipboard manager for Linux that's designed to be entirely keyboard-driven.

Here’s what it does:

Lets you recall and paste previous clipboard entries using just CTRL + SHIFT + 1~9.

Keeps a history of everything you copy, in a local database.

Moves selected items to the top of the clipboard stack (so CTRL + V pastes it).

Built with Go + WailsJS for a fast native feel.

No cloud. No telemetry. No fluff.

Right now, you’ll need to run it with sudo or allow access to /dev/input/eventX for keyboard capture. We’re working on a proper daemon mode, so you won’t need the GUI open to use shortcuts.

This is still a work in progress, but it’s already been boosting my workflow. I’d love feedback or contributions from anyone interested!

GitHub: https://github.com/Victor-Evogor/clipcapsule Screenshot & demo GIFs coming soon!

Would love to hear your thoughts or feature ideas.
by int_19h | 2025-04-14 21:52:50+00:00
That's the thing - "Isaac" is not a Russian name, but rather a Russian Jewish name, and is normally spelled "Исаак" (and pronounced something like ee-saah-k), which is indeed exactly how it was spelled in his birth certificate. It is also a very recognizably Jewish name - e.g. it would often be used in Russian political jokes on the subject.

And then you have USSR with its periodic antisemitic campaigns. The relevant one here is the one that started under Brezhnev in late 1960s, which is also when sci-fi in general became more popular in the USSR prompting more translations. So, publishing an author whose first name is Isaac would immediately draw attention from the censors. Seeing how anything Western was already on shaky grounds - sci-fi being allowed in the first place because it would often critique contemporary Western societies - translators played it safe by transcribing the American English pronunciation of "Isaac" into Russian, which made it Айзек (Ayzek). Which helpfully looks nothing like Исаак (Isaak), and doesn't "sound" Jewish at all to Russian ears.

This translation stuck, and it's how he is commonly known in Russian to this day.
by jorvi | 2025-04-14 21:53:30+00:00
Yes, it was the generation of the X360 and PS3. X360 was 3 core and the PS3 was 1+7 core (sort of a big.little setup).

Although it took many, many more years until games started to actually use multi-core properly. With rendering being on a 16.67ms / 8.33ms budget and rendering tied to world state, it was just really hard to not tie everything into eachother.

Even today you'll usually only see 2-4 cores actually getting significant load.
by philips | 2025-04-14 21:54:20+00:00
I really like the user namespace handling `--user-ns=keep-id`. It makes it easy for me to create a new Linux user and then have that user run some container and have bind mounts, etc just work correctly. It is the least fuss way I have found of running little services that need access to the host filesystem.

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-run.1.html#...
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-14 21:54:20+00:00
We have an entire generation of mid-level management types who have never experienced any form of adversity or even challenge, and have mistaken their privilege for talent, and they are every single bit as prone to falling into filter bubbles as the rest of us, but when you are that privileged, nobody around you will ever explain "no, uh, you are very wrong".

The dirty secret that nobody talks about is that the vast majority of our rich people are literally in filter bubbles of their own making and are disconnected entirely from reality. Like really bad ones too, not anything interesting, just generic Fox News based ones.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-14 21:54:38+00:00
"The agreement would have city police officers trained by ICE, acting on that agency’s behalf and reporting to ICE when it conducts “operations” within the city limits."

It seems problematic to convert local cops into a de facto extension of a federal LEO.

The point of local LEO is to focus on the actual needs of that community.

And we already have federal LEO to perform federal LEO duties.
by breppp | 2025-04-14 21:54:58+00:00
Maybe, I actually believe that the many instances of obvious non college participants does not cast these protestors in a good light

In any case, another example, A US court ruled an organized attack by a leftist group on Jews by physically blocking them from entering the campus if they refused to declare they agree with the "leftist" group

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-rules-jewish-stud...

I believe there's ample evidence that campus life in many american universities was hostile to many jews, and it is enough to watch Claudine Gay congressional hearing to understand they were reluctant to do anything about it
by EvanAnderson | 2025-04-14 21:55:27+00:00
The part that really got me from this talk was the added expense and complexity associated with the orientation-independent connector. It's neat that it'll plug-in either way, but at a cost that seems unjustified. USB-A connectors are a pain to plug in, for sure, so there was arguably room for improvement. An asymmetric connector shell would have done the job fine at a much lower cost.

Also, all the power delivery negotiation details sound excruciating. It frustrates me how we make something elegant and simple then gunk it up w/ edge cases.
by airstrike | 2025-04-14 21:55:46+00:00
> Improving Genmoji

I find it odd that they keep insisting on this to the point that it's the very first example. I'm willing to bet 90% of users don't use genmoji and the 10% who have used it on occasion mostly do it for the lulz at how bizarre the whole thing is.

It seems to me that they don't really have a vision for Apple Intelligence, or at least not a compelling one.
by bradac56 | 2025-04-14 21:55:50+00:00
1.) The Tao Jones Averages by Bennett W. Goodspeed 1984 (this is the primer before reading Jack Bogle's books).

2.) The Democratic Party: A History by Frank R. Kent 1928 (an important read of where both modern USA political parties came from).

3.) Native American Anarchism by Eunice Minette Schuster..1970 (bias is a funny thing).
by arp242 | 2025-04-14 21:56:35+00:00
I find that very few people and even fewer institutions are consistently always on the right side of things morally, even in very clear-cut cases (never mind that what exactly the "moral thing" is, is a whole discussion in itself). It's probably better to look at the overall pattern rather than a incidents (either good or bad).

I have no opinion on Harvard myself by the way; I don't know enough about it. I'm just saying this is not an especially good criticism.
by OCASMv2 | 2025-04-14 21:56:53+00:00
It doesn't allow me to write my own memory allocator, it forces me to.

This line of argumentation reminds me of this:

Advertise and promote a shortcoming or a fault as a virtue.

For example, ultra-cheap single-use film cameras are advertised as "No Focusing Required." The truth is, no focusing is possible, because those cameras have cheap plastic fixed-focus lenses that won't move and can't be focused. What is a serious shortcoming for a camera — the inability to properly focus on the subject — is sold as a convenience: "You don't have to bother with focusing."

https://orangepapers.eth.limo/orange-propaganda.html#make_vi...
by stubish | 2025-04-14 21:57:55+00:00
One of the problems with these sorts of machine learning applications, including this exact use case elsewhere, is that they have been extremely sensitive to the imaging equipment used. Train it on a dataset of images from one source and it is only accurate on images from that source. Possibly only accurate on images from the exact same device. For home use, it needs a huge training set of images taken by all sorts of devices in all sorts of lighting conditions. And then the system will need to be improved until the error rates become useful.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-14 21:58:49+00:00
There is immense anger at the democrats. There's never any actual evidence for why though.

Because nobody likes admitting the why: The democrats are hated because of the Civil Rights Act, and how the feds enforced it in the south.

It is not a coincidence that states that tried to ignore the Civil Rights Act have been strong Republican voters ever since.

Democrat hatred is based in tyranny. The "tyranny" of being forced to treat black people as equals.
by zzrrt | 2025-04-14 21:59:35+00:00
> I wonder where this goes next.

Well, JD Vance has been calling for Trump to defy the courts since at least 2021 and thinks the courts already started a constitutional crisis by checking the executive.[1] Maybe he missed some days in law school, or high school. Hope he can get a crash course on checks and balances soon.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/jd-vance-t...
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-14 21:59:49+00:00
I went through quite a few stages of grief reading Graham's On Lisp starting with "this is so awesome" to nitpicking details like "he defined everything else but he didn't define nconc" to "if we was using Clojure he wouldn't be having these problems with nconc" to "funny I can write 80%+ of his examples in Python because most of the magic is in first-class functions and macros are a performance optimization except for that last bit about continuations... and Python has async anyway!"

Notably he doesn't do any interesting tree transformations on the code because tree structures in list are just a collection of twisty nameless tuples that all look alike. If you were trying to do nontrivial transformations on code you'd be better off with an AST in a language like Java or Typescript. In the end the dragon book is On Lisp squared or cubed, that is, games people play with macros are a pale shadow of what you can do if you actually understand how compilers work.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-14 22:00:11+00:00
Yes it does sound authoritarian. Thank you for answering my question in good faith.

I am noticing a pattern; whenever I ask clarifying questions on hacker news threads regarding politically charged topics, most people assume least-respectful interpretation of my questions and heavily downvote them. As someone who is curious and genuinely trying to understand what's going on (I am here instead of other social media because I am looking for nuance, analysis, details, etc), it's really frustrating and disappointing when I am attacked for asking questions.

So thank you, again, for engaging in my question constructively.
by const_cast | 2025-04-14 22:00:31+00:00
These people, being just about everyone vaguely related to the Trump administration, lie through their teeth. And, it's perfectly legal to lie.

When they're in front of Congress, typically their tunes change. Sometimes even then they don't. Will they be charged with Perjury? Perhaps, when hell freezes over. Sometimes, it requires a ballsy journalist to reveal the truth, even when the truth should be obvious.
by OutOfHere | 2025-04-14 22:00:38+00:00
If alive, as a prisoner, he would now have an awareness of the operations of the CECOT prison that would be too harmful for the El Salvador government to let the world know. If so, this would imply that no one can ever be released from CECOT.

Wikipedia says as much:

> The Salvadoran government does not plan to release any prisoner from CECOT,[19] and Minister of Justice and Public Security Gustavo Villatoro has stated that prisoners incarcerated at CECOT will never return to their communities.

It strictly and literally is a one-way destination.
by tzs | 2025-04-14 22:01:28+00:00
They are already are spending billions a year from their endowment, which covers nearly 40% of their operating revenue, which is around the maximum they can sustainably spend.

Sustainable spending is the whole point of an endowment.

Also endowments are created by a vast number of individual donations which often come with restrictions. For example someone leaves a bunch of money to university to support a professorship. That money and its earnings can only be used for that.

Generally the things that are funded by research grants from the government are things that cannot be funded from the endowment.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-14 22:02:18+00:00
> This is a no-brainer considering only 2.3% of their faculty identifies as conservative.

That's true now. It wasn't always true. From: https://www.aei.org/articles/are-colleges-and-universities-t...

- In 1989-1990, when HERI first fielded this survey, 42% of faculty identified as being on the left, 40% were moderate, and another 18% were on the right.

- in 2016-2017, HERI found that 60% of the faculty identified as either far left or liberal compared to just 12% being conservative or far right

Now you say it's 2.3% conservative.

The universities argue they haven't changed, it's the politics of the right. I'd say they are correct as the right now to disavows and ridicules the output of universities on things like climate change, tariffs, vaccines, health, voter fraud in US elections ... well it's a long list. It wasn't like that 30 years ago.

The universities are supposed to be intellectual power houses fearlessly seeking out fundamental truths and relationships, regardless of what the people in power might think of their discoveries. Both sides of politics once celebrated that. Now one side wants to control what types of thought the universities allow, demanding they monitor, snitch, report, and police the on ideas the conservative base don't like. That's directly opposed to how Universities operate. They allow and encourage all types of thought, but insist they be exposed to a torrent of opposing thoughts so only the soundest survive.

Frankly, I'm amazed 2.3% still identify with a mob that clearly wants to undermine that. I'm guessing it will drop to near 0% now.
by throwup238 | 2025-04-14 22:03:11+00:00
> - Deep Research (very powerful, but I have only 10 attempts per month, so I end up using roughly zero)

Same here, which is a real shame. I've switched to DeepResearch with Gemini 2.5 Pro over the last few days where paid users have a 20/day limit instead of 10/month and it's been great, especially since now Gemini seems to browse 10x more pages than OpenAI Deep Research (on the order of 200-400 pages versus 20-40).

The reports are too verbose but having it research random development ideas, or how to do something particularly complex with a specific library, or different approaches or architectures to a problem has been very productive without sliding into vibe coding territory.
by kjellsbells | 2025-04-14 22:03:30+00:00
I don't know that making a bad investment makes them terrible fund managers, just as making a good one would not make them brilliant. Don't you need a string of data points?

If you are going to claim that they were not hired on merit, and that they are bad investment managers, you'll need to provide a lot more evidence on both points, rather than a "just asking questions" post on HN. Otherwise, it's just snark and not in keeping with HN's ethos.
by omneity | 2025-04-14 22:04:35+00:00
I am not sure about public evidence. But the memory requirements alone to train on 1M long windows would make it a very unrealistic proposition compared to RoPE scaling. And as I mentioned RoPE is essential for long context anyway. You can't train it in the "normal way". Please see the paper I linked previously for more context (pun not intended) on RoPE.

Re: Llama 4, please see the sibling comment.
by skyyler | 2025-04-14 22:05:28+00:00
> Those who complied with the protesters’ view were issued wristbands to allow them to pass through, the complaint says, which effectively barred Jewish students who supported Israel

So, just to be clear, it was because they were pro-Israel, and not because they were Jewish.

If it was because they were Jewish, Jewish students that oppose Israeli occupation wouldn’t be allowed through.

Conflating the Jewish identity with support for Israel is a subtle ideological trick, one that Jewish antizionists consider to be antisemitic.
by snovymgodym | 2025-04-14 22:06:26+00:00
Yeah, but we're talking about 2012. Instagram was small and wasn't making any money, and feature-wise it barely resembled what it is today. Going just by US sites in 2012 Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and Reddit were all large competing social networks (or social network adjacent sites/apps).

Seems like in your analogy there were plenty of grocery stores left.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-14 22:06:43+00:00
The ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR and the rest of AI professional organizations are why this happens. Forced open sourcing of everything. No pay to access. It’s the ideal open academic environment for rapid innovation. We must jealously defend our current system, as it will soon come under attack by those who get angry about democratization of the means of computation.

Also, lots of copyright abolitionists in AI. Many people who work in the space delight in the idea of making information, especially their own, free.

The ghost of Aaron Swartz runs through every researcher in this space.
by bradac56 | 2025-04-14 22:07:11+00:00
To answer the question a simple 6 digit number a few hows with an off the shelf brute force program. 10 to 20 digits could take a year if it's a good generator.

40+ digits good luck with that I doubt there's many on this site that would even know of the names of the software needed for that and far fewer outside of a 3 digit organization that has the time to dedicate a high end computer for the job.

It's just easier to get the information via social eng means or a $5 hammer to the knee caps.
by jjulius | 2025-04-14 22:07:26+00:00
>This means that the "small internet" for any given niche is very, very small, even compared to what it would've been a long time ago on a vastly smaller internet.

This has been my lived experience with a few places the past couple of years, and I love it. It's a completely different experience from the "pop web" that most people use and it's amazing.

>Nobody can even find the small internet. It's out there and there are search engines, but even if Google magically wasn't utterly ruined by SEO SPAM, people just don't Google their special interests as much directly anymore.

I know that my example can't speak for most/many other places, but the regional hiking forums I frequent (same places I alluded to above) come up a lot on search engines. Whether you're looking for "[region] hiking", or looking up "[name of] trail", or anything related to it, the pages pop up towards the top quite frequently. It's how I found them, and there does seem to be a steady number of new users joining.
by TexanFeller | 2025-04-14 22:08:41+00:00
I don’t see Sean Carroll’s musings mentioned yet, so repeating my previous comment:

Entropy got a lot more exciting to me after hearing Sean Carroll talk about it. He has a foundational/philosophical bent and likes to point out that there are competing definitions of entropy set on different philosophical foundations, one of them seemingly observer dependent: - https://youtu.be/x9COqqqsFtc?si=cQkfV5IpLC039Cl5 - https://youtu.be/XJ14ZO-e9NY?si=xi8idD5JmQbT5zxN

Leonard Susskind has lots of great talks and books about quantum information and calculating the entropy of black holes which led to a lot of wild new hypotheses.

Stephen Wolfram gave a long talk about the history of the concept of entropy which was pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/live/ocOHxPs1LQ0?si=zvQNsj_FEGbTX2R3
by mullingitover | 2025-04-14 22:09:25+00:00
The crazy thing about this attempt to annex sovereign foreign territory is it's totally unnecessary.

If the US wanted more bases on the island, it can already do that. There are existing treaties. The US unilaterally closed many of its bases there, it could simply reopen then at any time.

If it wanted to extract natural resources it could just pay for permission to do that. Any of the other things it's claiming top lan there could also be done without annexing foreign territory.

This is about normalizing territorial expansionism to launder Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-14 22:10:27+00:00
It is hard to take people at their word when it clashes with our understanding of reality or would create a call to action or make inaction unexcusable.

We should take this administration at their word.

Trump said: "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-... https://www.npr.org/2024/10/23/nx-s1-5161598/i-need-the-kind...

Here is Timothy Snyder's breakdown of exactly what that means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw-ObXslUo4&t=760s
by bradac56 | 2025-04-14 22:10:52+00:00
Simple answer is no vibe coding isn't real.

Slightly longer answer, if you can't code you can't debug. If you can't debug nothing you get out of an AI prompt will work correctly.

The people that can use AI coding tools well can already write whatever thing they are tasked with the tool is just helping them write/debug/test faster.
by tcfhgj | 2025-04-14 22:11:26+00:00
async mutexes?

> Contrary to popular belief, it is ok and often preferred to use the ordinary Mutex from the standard library in asynchronous code.

> The feature that the async mutex offers over the blocking mutex is the ability to keep it locked across an .await point.

https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/struct.Mutex.html
by jjulius | 2025-04-14 22:11:45+00:00
We don't always need to know everything that happened all the time, whether it's online or meatspace happenings. If my IRC connection dropped back in the day, and there was something that happened in that timeframe that was truly worth hearing about, I'd find out eventually.

There's something to be said, at least in my opinion, about keeping a healthy dose of ephemerality in our lives.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-14 22:11:50+00:00
> There really isn't such a thing if you want to do business in America

There are to varying extents. You want a country that isn't aligned with or dependent on America, but also isn't its adversary. (And which has a good banking system.) That list was classically Turkey, the UAE and Switzerland. Today I'd add India, Qatar, Canada and Brazil and remove Switzerland.
by softwaredoug | 2025-04-14 22:11:58+00:00
One thing to _always_ dig into is how your hybrid search solution filters the vector search index. This is not at all standardized, often overlooked, but when you want "top X most similar to query by embedding, but also in Y category/match Z search terms" its the core operation your hybrid search is doing

Here's a rollup of algorithms... https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredoug.bsky.social/post/3lmrm...