Hacker News: YakBizzarro

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"

YakBizzarro — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:19:50 +0000

I don't want a new travel agent, I just want to go home

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

YakBizzarro — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:14:53 +0000

Col! Can you share it?

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT"

YakBizzarro — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:33:05 +0000

Silane is like Methane, but with Silicon instead of Carbon (SiH4). Thanks god for doping was used Phosphine (PH3) and not Phosgene (COCl2), both are nasty, but the second is more. Plus I don't know how much is used, since nowadays doping is typically done by ion implantation rather than gas diffusion

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K"

YakBizzarro — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:37:19 +0000

yes... the only advantage of Hydrogen I can imagine is the abundance, for the rest I see only downsides. Helium is relatively abundant and technically renewable: it's a byproduct of gas extraction, since it's continuously produced by the alpha-nuclear decay inside the earth. Of course doesn't mean the offer is adequate with the market request, especially after the Hormuz crisis

AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches for Their Amdgpu Linux Driver

YakBizzarro — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:09:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Patches

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975708

Points: 6

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New comment by YakBizzarro in "Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold"

YakBizzarro — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:59:31 +0000

The claim that traditional electronics can't work at deep cryogenic temperatures is vastly exaggerated. Of course you can't take something as complex as a modern microprocessor and hope it works at 4K, but modern fully-depleted MOSFETs typically works. Their electrical characteristic will be different, so a tailored design it's often needed

New comment by YakBizzarro in "JPEG XL Test Page"

YakBizzarro — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:01:05 +0000

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

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

YakBizzarro — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:23:19 +0000

I seriously don't get it. At my time in university, ALL the exams were oral. And most had one or two written parts before (one even three, the professor called it written-for-the-oral). Sure, the orals took two days for the big exams at the beginning, still, professors and their assistants managed to offer six sessions per year.

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments)"

YakBizzarro — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:03:35 +0000

Maybe someonw can explain me, but I never understood the appeal of GPIB for modern instruments (legacy instruments are of course "excused"). Electrically is a terrible interface that introduces ground loops with the control computer. Speed are laughable and it requires exensive and exotic adapters with complex sw stack (I wish this projects good success, it's needed!). Ethernet in comparison tick all my boxes. It's electrically decoupled by default (just use UTP cables), crazy cheap, very fast and with sane sw stack thanks to vxi-11. You can even bypass visa if you wish and open a plain TCP socket, no need for any library. What am I missing?

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Swiss voters back e-ID and abolish rental tax"

YakBizzarro — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:51:48 +0000

Not at all, it depends on the residence permit. With a C permit you can buy and rent properties, while with B you can buy only your own home

Swiss voters back e-ID and abolish rental tax

YakBizzarro — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:33:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-voters-have-decided-on-electronic-id-and-abolishing-rental-tax/90057432

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405675

Points: 72

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New comment by YakBizzarro in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

YakBizzarro — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:30:56 +0000

God, I hate so much these videos. My son son used to ask for these when he was younger, they were so bad...

New comment by YakBizzarro in "A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package"

YakBizzarro — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:32:36 +0000

with a bonding machine :) doing that manually can be tedious, nowadays for IC that are bonded and not flipchipped it's all automatic. Manual bonding is still very used in research.

New comment by YakBizzarro in "The FPGA turns 40"

YakBizzarro — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:32:12 +0000

these prices are like airplanes: no one with volume pays list prices, it's something else. moreover, this FPGA is very peculiar. it's used to simulate ASIC during validation, so it's not really the typical FPGA that gets used in a project

Qt's New Bridging Technology – Looking Back to Move Forward

YakBizzarro — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:24:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.qt.io/blog/about-the-new-qt-bridging-technology

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44109948

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by YakBizzarro in "KVMs with DisplayPort and USB over USB-C"

YakBizzarro — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:22:24 +0000

Same issue, but instead I convert the USB-C signals of the laptop to HDMI/USB-A plus charging port with a cheap adapter. Then a KVM with HDMI/USB switching

New comment by YakBizzarro in "I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to"

YakBizzarro — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:00:11 +0000

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

New comment by YakBizzarro in "Attacking My Landlord's Boiler"

YakBizzarro — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:04:29 +0000

Funny how the manufacturer proudly claims that the protocol is encrypted, but completely forget to mitigate replay attacks,thus making the encryption completely useless

New comment by YakBizzarro in "OpenWrt Two Approval"

YakBizzarro — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:21:01 +0000

In fact I'm quite surprised by this announcement. Gl.inet is famous for claiming that their os is based on openwrt, while it can be some vendor SDK that is based on some decade-old version of openwrt and have little in common today

Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as Chief Executive Officer

YakBizzarro — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:31:51 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-appoints-lip-bu-tan-chief-executive-officer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351296

Points: 2

# Comments: 0