Hacker News: izend

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?

New comment by izend in "I rebooted my social life"

izend — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:16:15 +0000

I have had this discussion with my wife, men need activities more than women to bond. My wife can make friends just by randomly running into other women at events or my daughter's activities.

New comment by izend in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

izend — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:26:25 +0000

Just speculation but maybe the fact the world is in an oil glut right now and with the prospect that Russian oil could re-enter global market causing even more glut caused Ford to believe that gasoline will remain fairly cheap compared to 2008 era for the next decade.

New comment by izend in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

izend — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:00:34 +0000

I am actually surprised they cancelled the F150 Lightning, I see a lot of them the Metro Vancouver area where a lot of contractors, (gardeners, pool maintenance, labourers, etc...) are driving them as electricity is super cheap here and gasoline is quite expensive.

New comment by izend in "Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats"

izend — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:20:57 +0000

What a waste... I like the style of it, still works fine after 10 years and it works with old furnaces. The environmentalists should be all over Google for this debacle.

New comment by izend in "A million ways to die from a data race in Go"

izend — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:15:37 +0000

Meaning similar to Erlang style message passing?

New comment by izend in "Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats"

izend — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:45:34 +0000

As soon as Cody Kociemba open sources his firmware I'm going to apply it to my Nest 1st gen. It is ridiculous Google is turning off the support, it is probably because they don't want to support the old API or something...

New comment by izend in "The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States"

izend — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:26:54 +0000

No sorry, I just missed it...

New comment by izend in "The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States"

izend — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:49:19 +0000

I'm surprised they don't mention bats, every summer night they fly within a foot of my head and some poor guy died on Vancouver Island,

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rabies-death...