Hacker News: Yoofie

New comment by Yoofie in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

Yoofie — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:56:20 +0000

> Few engineers could reliably build the software locally; debugger usage was rare (I ended up writing the team's first how-to guide in 2024); and automated test coverage sat below 40%.

A key clue and explains why so much of what Microsoft puts out is garbage. Wow.

New comment by Yoofie in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

Yoofie — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:56:07 +0000

No, the OP is right in this case. Did you read TFA? It was "peer reviewed".

> Worryingly, each of these submissions has already been reviewed by 3-5 peer experts, most of whom missed the fake citation(s). This failure suggests that some of these papers might have been accepted by ICLR without any intervention. Some had average ratings of 8/10, meaning they would almost certainly have been published.

If the peer reviewers can't be bothered to do the basics, then there is literally no point to peer review, which is fully independent of the author who uses or doesn't use AI tools.

New comment by Yoofie in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

Yoofie — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:58:21 +0000

Texas Instruments and Microchip: Am I a joke to you?

New comment by Yoofie in "Show HN: Localscope–Limit scope of Python functions for reproducible execution"

Yoofie — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:14:28 +0000

Congratulations, you just described the primary reasons for using languages like Rust - the polar opposite of Python & co.

New comment by Yoofie in "LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen"

Yoofie — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:41:28 +0000

> most people use it to spy on others.

ThatsThePoint.jpg

New comment by Yoofie in "Discovery Coding"

Yoofie — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 06:13:38 +0000

Yeah, this is not a new concept and I remember seeing one of his videos that explains this concept really well. Here the relevant video from 9 years ago for those uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/jlcmxvQfzKQ?si=zmKT9a3yK5R4Wmg4

New comment by Yoofie in "Liberux: Linux phone"

Yoofie — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:48:33 +0000

Physical Wifi/BLE/5G kill switches, but no SD card slot or audio jack? Odd choices.

New comment by Yoofie in "What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care"

Yoofie — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:44:40 +0000

No please don't do this. I have lost count how many times I tried to follow a link only to get a 404 page. If there is an issue where the app gives the user an error, show the error details & context directly and list the possible mitigation steps right then and there.

A URL with specific content is just another thing that now needs to be maintained along with the code and failure modes.

New comment by Yoofie in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

Yoofie — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:13:03 +0000

This is easily bypassed and/or worked around. What is to prevent an indefinite investigation? The FBI D.B Cooper case was open for decades, for example.

New comment by Yoofie in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2 lands with RISC-V cores"

Yoofie — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:39:01 +0000

> RP2354 has Flash finally

The flash is QSPI, so its not really on die flash with a real flash controller. There is some QSPI cache but it’s really a band-aid solution to not having the real thing. People around the net don't seem to understand the difference and it can be very misleading.

New comment by Yoofie in "Features I'd like to see in future IDEs"

Yoofie — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:22:48 +0000

I use "Todo Tree" in VS Code which is one of my mandatory extensions wherever I go. Super useful for not only tag highlighting, but as a general bookmark system inside the codebase.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug...

New comment by Yoofie in "Features I'd like to see in future IDEs"

Yoofie — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:19:50 +0000

I also find this super annoying. In C++ land, Microsoft solves this problem by having "natvis" [0] files which allows you to have custom representations of complex & deeply nested objects. Unfortunately, most third-party debuggers don't support it. And like you said, any non-trivial program in Rust is basically not parsible without digger though 50 layers of nested abstractions.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/crea...

New comment by Yoofie in "Memory Mapping an FPGA from an STM32"

Yoofie — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 03:25:25 +0000

How do you assemble your board with BGA packages? Or do you procure the parts and then send them somewhere for assembly?

New comment by Yoofie in "Th64: Tiny Hash Function in C"

Yoofie — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 05:05:10 +0000

Slightly off topic: Does anyone know of a good/fast hash function (similar to this) for use in 32bit embedded systems (such as Cortex-M, TriCore, C2000, etc)?

New comment by Yoofie in "What makes switching to GNU Linux almost impossible for many?"

Yoofie — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:21 +0000

Linux will never get popular in the mainstream until the Linux community ditches the obsession with doing things through the command line. The second you need to open the terminal to do something useful, you already lost.

There are many reasons why Linux is not popular, but the over reliance on commandline is a obvious one I rarely hear people mention.

New comment by Yoofie in "Apple to Developers: Heads I win, tails you lose (part 2)"

Yoofie — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:51:19 +0000

The regulators are asleep at the wheel. Thats why Apple feels like they can get away with all of this.

New comment by Yoofie in "Why do software nowadays take so much more memory and processing power (2020)"

Yoofie — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 21:43:14 +0000

Reminds me of this [1] great talk from Casey Muratori.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk

New comment by Yoofie in "Another Joke Fine Shows US Authorities Do Not Take Illegal Telemarketing Serious"

Yoofie — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:25:25 +0000

> but should not be so large as to be an instant kill for what could be a legal business

Why not? A corporate death penalty should absolutely be a thing. If we can have it for people, then we can have it for a business. The problem is that government sucks at doing its own job and the usual punishments are a joke.

New comment by Yoofie in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

Yoofie — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 22:48:36 +0000

Ok, we can ban M&A for all businesses who exceed $x million in revenue. Mom & pop can still put the work in and cash out, but bigger businesses are prohibited from eating eating their competitors and preventing disruptive businesses from growing and having a fair shot in the market.

The $x million limit can be decided upon based on the industry and other factors.

>nobody would ever create Goodreads

Lots of people create of businesses and pursue non-profitable enterprises for non-profitable reasons.

New comment by Yoofie in "ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important"

Yoofie — Sun, 28 May 2023 19:20:38 +0000

Someone else posted a really compelling video where they test the power efficiency of Android and Apple phones.

https://youtu.be/s0ukXDnWlTY

Its really quite informative.