Hacker News with Generative AI: Naming Conventions

Bristling at 'Gulf of Mexico' name change on maps, Mexico says might sue Google (apnews.com)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her government wouldn’t rule out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States the “Gulf of America.”
Mexico, Geography, Lawsuits, Google, Naming Conventions
13 points by c420 7 days ago | 4 comments
Gulf of America name change in the U.S. (google)
In the U.S., the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.”
Geography, United States, Naming Conventions, Government
31 points by jnd0 9 days ago | 56 comments
How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008) (googleblog.com)
Google Earth, Mapping, Naming Conventions
52 points by doener 23 days ago | 10 comments
A made-up name is better than no name (mbuffett.com)
In working on Chessbook recently, I often found myself referring to (position, move) pairs. Specifically positions that are stored as EPDs, and moves that are stored in San notation.
Chess, Programming, Naming Conventions
62 points by marcusbuffett 82 days ago | 80 comments
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Naming Integers (ziglang.org)
Lately my Zig code has started to look like this in all my projects:
Programming Languages, Zig, Code Style, Naming Conventions
15 points by ingve 106 days ago | 14 comments
Apple's naming conventions are a mess (medium.com)
I’ve reworked Apple’s whole naming system to be way more consistent and logical. Ditching the inconsistent pre/postfixes like “Max”, “Air”, “SE”, “Plus” and “Studio” to make everything cleaner and easier to follow.
Apple, Naming Conventions, Design, User Experience, Technology
17 points by cashy 132 days ago | 35 comments
Matt Mullenweg trying to change /r/Wordpress to /r/WordPress (reddit.com)
Howdy mods, I have confirmation from u/spez that if the mods here send a request to him, they can capitalize the P. Can we fix this together? It's been years!
Reddit, Community Management, Subreddits, Naming Conventions
25 points by rob 138 days ago | 12 comments
Against Names (steveklabnik.com)
Language, Naming Conventions, Philosophy
56 points by thunderbong 190 days ago | 24 comments
Boaty McBoatface (wikipedia.org)
Internet Culture, Humor, Naming Conventions
34 points by doener 315 days ago | 20 comments