Hacker News: vodou

New comment by vodou in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

vodou — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:31:02 +0000

I guess this just shows how divided the world is right now (in a lot of ways), but for me this sounds like one of the creepier episodes of Black Mirror or Twilight Zone.

AI with European Values

vodou — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:34:09 +0000

Article URL: https://hostedai.eu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954196

Points: 2

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New comment by vodou in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

vodou — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:13:23 +0000

Was this a joke? I must know!

New comment by vodou in "Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code"

vodou — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:10:17 +0000

It is still used for operations procedures in, at least, European space industry. E.g., in mission control systems from Terma (CCS5 and TSC).

New comment by vodou in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

vodou — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:32:57 +0000

I am pretty sure there are people here qualified enough to edit that Wikipedia page in a proper way.

Space Agency Confirms Breach – Hackers Claim 200 GB of Data Stolen

vodou — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:17:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/01/04/space-agency-confirms-breach---hackers-claim-200-gb-of-data-stolen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532978

Points: 2

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New comment by vodou in "Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?"

vodou — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:16:13 +0000

An "explorative" hex editor where you can do "fuzzy" searches, e.g., searching for a header with specific values for certain fields. (I thought ImHex should be able to do this (and still think it might), but haven't really figured out a good work flow...)

New comment by vodou in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

vodou — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:23:53 +0000

Then you are part of truly strange circles, among people who don’t understand human behavior.

New comment by vodou in "When compilers surprise you"

vodou — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:49:20 +0000

Even though I do find your indifference refreshing I must say: it does matter for quite a few people.

New comment by vodou in "When compilers surprise you"

vodou — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:15:29 +0000

Almost 16000 lines in a single source code file. I find this both admirable and unsettling.

New comment by vodou in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

vodou — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:52:48 +0000

Need to check it out. I guess you mean these:

- C++ Exceptions Reduce Firmware Code Size, ACCU [1]

- C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware, CppCon [2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGmzMuSDt-Y

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2FlayomlE

New comment by vodou in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

vodou — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:28:56 +0000

Modern autogenerated C code from Simulink is rather effective. It is neither garbage nor spaghetti, it is just... peculiar.

New comment by vodou in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

vodou — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:25:36 +0000

Not my experience. I work with a -fno-exceptions codebase. Still quite a lot of std left. (Exceptions come with a surprisingly hefty binary size cost.)

New comment by vodou in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

vodou — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:04:20 +0000

Do you have some concrete or specific examples of intentional compensation or purposeful scaffolding in mind (outside the topic of the article)?

New comment by vodou in "The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions"

vodou — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:38:16 +0000

Yes. The LEON series of microprocessors is quite common in space industry. It is based on SPARC v8 and SPARC is big-endian. And also, yes, SPARC v8 is a 33 years old 32-bit architecture, in space we tend to stick to the trailing edge of technology.

New comment by vodou in "A collection of technical things every software developer should know (2017)"

vodou — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:22:15 +0000

Also remember: Even though many of these articles/books/papers/etc. are good, even great, some of them are starting to get a bit old. When reading them, check what modern commentators are saying about them.

E.g.: What every programmer should know about memory (18 years old) [1]

How much of ‘What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory’ is still valid? (13 years old) [2]

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8126311/how-much-of-what...

New comment by vodou in "CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space"

vodou — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:34:12 +0000

Not just students TBH...

New comment by vodou in "CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space"

vodou — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:40:23 +0000

But even in LEO, there must be quite a few SEUs and resets?

New comment by vodou in "CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space"

vodou — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:42:57 +0000

I've always wondered how well these RPi based cubesats really work in space. Really hard to find out. Also, people (naturally) aren't always eager to talk about failed projects. Maybe some people here on HN have experiences to share?

New comment by vodou in "Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space"

vodou — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:27:44 +0000

Great project! Been using it for years together with VTS [1] to visualize real-time and propagated satellite positions and attitudes, and also star tracker and payload "beams".

[1] https://timeloop.fr/vts/