Hacker News: isiahl

New comment by isiahl in "Tell HN: Google Cloud Outage"

isiahl — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:48:35 +0000

They haven’t updated their external status page, but the incidents page in the GCP console reports that “Google Cloud multi-product customers are experiencing elevated packet loss and errors to/from us-centrall-b.”

New comment by isiahl in "TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In"

isiahl — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:56:45 +0000

It’s not even a government service. It’s a private business they have entrusted with authentication for the government.

New comment by isiahl in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

isiahl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:04:24 +0000

Would be interested to see something like this to simulate VHS effects

New comment by isiahl in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

isiahl — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:36:15 +0000

What I think is crazy are the links at the top to summarize the article with your preferred AI provider. The prompt asks it to summarize the article along with an advertisement for their product. This is the prompt I got when clicking the Claude link:

> summarize+this+article+and+explain+how+scrapfly+helps+me+scrape+any+website+at+scale+and+bypass+anti-bot+systems+for+my+use+case:+https://scrapfly.dev/posts/browser-math-os-fingerprint/

New comment by isiahl in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

isiahl — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:49:12 +0000

You can still play with those outside your age groups, you just can’t communicate.

New comment by isiahl in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

isiahl — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:12:10 +0000

Please please try to read a post before commenting on it

New comment by isiahl in "Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)"

isiahl — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 02:09:22 +0000

It’s not really obfuscation. It goes back to when Android OS’s used to be named after desserts. While in development they would be referred to just by the letter as the dessert name wasn’t usually finalized

New comment by isiahl in "Digital Services Playbook"

isiahl — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:19:41 +0000

RIP to the USDS, an inspiring government department to someone like me.

New comment by isiahl in "HP Acquires Humane's AI Software"

isiahl — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:02 +0000

I believe that was the joke.

New comment by isiahl in "Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way"

isiahl — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:37:07 +0000

When I worked at a podcast host I was tasked to implement WebPubSub support to our podcast feeds. This introduced a “push” updates rather than requiring an indexer to constantly recheck the xml file. The idea seeems to not have caught on. At the time I think Google was the only indexer supporting the feature and I’m not sure if that has continued with the switch to YouTube for podcasts

New comment by isiahl in "Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars"

isiahl — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:02:17 +0000

Was at a rest stop and heard talking coming from a box on a pole. It was reading out the weather in TTS voice, guessing it was the transmitter for one of these stations.

New comment by isiahl in "Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]"

isiahl — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 03:51:12 +0000

For the record, since I’m seeing it a lot in this thread:

Green names = new account

New comment by isiahl in "Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web"

isiahl — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:56:27 +0000

I have an actual question about the implementation of this. It currently seems like there is no way to maintain your location history if you switch device platforms. Your on device history seems to be synced to iCloud, but if you switch from iOS -> Android, it seems like your SOL?

New comment by isiahl in "McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game"

isiahl — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:54:36 +0000

Love that their logo is an homage to Yahooligans, Yahoo’s old kids web portal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010708042828/http://www.yahool...

New comment by isiahl in "How Southwest Airlines melted down"

isiahl — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:47:05 +0000

Reminds me of this Onion headline: "Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don't Exist’"

https://www.theonion.com/smart-qualified-people-behind-the-s...

New comment by isiahl in "On the Future of 12ft"

isiahl — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 02:20:46 +0000

But I could change my clients User Agent to match the Google Crawler?

New comment by isiahl in "Wordle officially has been moved to nytimes.com"

isiahl — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:48:43 +0000

I wonder how that was done, assuming the original stats were stored in local storage?

New comment by isiahl in "Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity"

isiahl — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:13:02 +0000

The website doesn't deliver 1080p video in any browser but Edge (and this may have changed with Edge being switched to Chromium)

New comment by isiahl in "Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle"

isiahl — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:17:15 +0000

How long was the Playststion Network down for in like 2011? Around a week?

New comment by isiahl in "S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'"

isiahl — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:14:39 +0000

Here's more information about the program: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

I believe YouTube has the same type of program.