Hacker News: izend

New comment by izend in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

izend — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:27:32 +0000

I am as well and hopefully Starship allows even larger telescopes!

New comment by izend in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

izend — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:00:42 +0000

What happens if you have a local power outage but they have drained your battery down?

New comment by izend in "Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels"

izend — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:33:46 +0000

There is a very underfunded https://www.orphanwell.ca/ program but I agree with your point.

New comment by izend in "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations"

izend — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:31:23 +0000

Why wasn't the traffic in/out of the boxes that the agents were running on monitored?

New comment by izend in "New MCP Roadmap"

izend — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:19:39 +0000

I am very curious how many MCP servers will actually implement all of this:

"MCP authorization today is built around a person approving access in a browser. That works well for interactive clients, but more and more of the callers are agents running as cloud workloads with their own identity, acting on behalf of a user who isn’t present, or delegating narrower authority to sub-agents. We want MCP servers to have a standardized way to recognize and trust those agent identities, built on existing standards rather than pasted API keys and long-lived tokens.

The work here covers finalizing Demonstrating Proof of Possession (DPoP) and driving its adoption, and defining an opinionated path for agent identity and delegation through Workload Identity Federation, the ID-JAG grant behind Enterprise-Managed Authorization, and standard token exchange. We will also continue to grow our engagement with the OAuth standards bodies, including the IETF OAuth and WIMSE working groups, to help the underlying standards evolve with the building blocks that agent identity needs."

New comment by izend in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

izend — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:08:41 +0000

The strongest El Niño ever caused a massive famine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%931878_El_Ni%C3%B1o...

New comment by izend in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

izend — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:03:20 +0000

Look at the M2 supply growth, it can't collapse with that growth but inflation will run quite high.

New comment by izend in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

izend — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:01:57 +0000

I have been very critical of the Federal gov (less so under Carney) and I will admit this job report actually was very good as it wasn't just majority public sector hirings which was very common under Trudeau:

Private-sector jobs: +58,000 jobs [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Government/public-sector jobs:-27,000 jobs (a decline) [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Self-employed: +44,000 jobs [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Part-time jobs: +36,600 jobs [money.usnews.com], [ca.finance.yahoo.com]

New comment by izend in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

izend — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:13:24 +0000

It hasn't completely but she was watching TikTok style mindrot youtube videos so that least that is blocked now.

We blocked a bunch of domains on her laptop so it is just very painful for her now.

New comment by izend in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

izend — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:26:34 +0000

Are you a parent?

I have personally used the parental controls on Android, iOS and ChromeOS and to be honest they are terrible. Issues with syncing changes, the terrible UX for parental access control (iOS...), issues around audit/access logs, issues around prompting the parent for access.

I am honestly shocked that Apple known for its polished experience hasn't been forced by angry parents.

My daughter's school actually advised parents to not enable parental controls on her ChromeBook because it would interfere with the school's education websites but my daughter was caught playing web games in class so we decided to lock her down anyways.

New comment by izend in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

izend — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:42:42 +0000

LHS 1140 b has about 5.6 times Earth’s mass

New comment by izend in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

izend — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:25:38 +0000

Why did Bill Clinton execute the largest Federal cuts in the 90s and everyone said they were needed?

New comment by izend in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

izend — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:42:45 +0000

Look at the official party stance, he is spreading misinformation.

New comment by izend in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

izend — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:56:49 +0000

Vehicles accelerate a LOT faster on average than years ago, EVs and Turbo Engines...

New comment by izend in "Canada in Technical Recession"

izend — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:38:50 +0000

There is very little opportunity right now in Canada so I am not surprised the GDP growth has come in negative. It will probably be positive next quarter due to the oil price spike.

New comment by izend in "High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building"

izend — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:12:48 +0000

Another amazing series is the Master of Rome series starting with the First Man of Rome book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Man_in_Rome

New comment by izend in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

izend — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:10:53 +0000

Prince is claiming they laid off very few SWEs, I know at least an entire team of SWEs.

https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554?s=20

New comment by izend in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

izend — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:46:20 +0000

Does https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp overlap ?

New comment by izend in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

izend — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:56:31 +0000

I would bet Chinese models will be much harder to poison and the fact the Chinese populace is much more pro-AI than the West.

New comment by izend in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

izend — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:29:01 +0000

"I'm speaking from personal experience, having spent about 12-14 hours a day on TikTok for probably 360 days during 2024"

My jaw is on the floor... Can you provide details of your usage, were you just going through video after video for 12-14 hours or were you involved in content production or something?