Hacker News: zoenolan

New comment by zoenolan in "Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?"

zoenolan — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:20:59 +0000

I thought the article was going to be about how people scan chips

Rapid Chip Reverse Engineering Using Laser, Focused ion beams, and Scanning electron microscope https://academic.oup.com/mam/article/30/Supplement_1/ozae044...

FIBs are also used to test modifications before doing a respin. I'm still in awe that matter can be manipulated so precisely

Canaries in the column? AI exposure and the UK's hiring slowdown

zoenolan — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:59:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bankunderground.co.uk/2026/08/06/canaries-in-the-column-ai-exposure-and-the-uks-hiring-slowdown/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200822

Points: 1

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New comment by zoenolan in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

zoenolan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:11:36 +0000

https://youtu.be/mMqkuAb-HYg

New comment by zoenolan in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

zoenolan — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:38:40 +0000

The big one I remember was many applications, not just games assuming the buffer swap was performed by a blit into the display buffer, not an framebuffer pointer update. They relied on the previous frames data still being in the back buffer. For those applications you were forced to blit the buffer, not swap the pointer and take a performance hit.

I also remember a media player being called out by name in the code for doing invalid operations, needing a work around and code to detect it was running just to function.

New comment by zoenolan in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

zoenolan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:20:32 +0000

> If being in the EU was so great, then why don't Norway or Switzerland join?

https://www.ft.com/content/5c8a871f-9a49-45f4-9ac0-543a608a5...

https://archive.is/dCYJG

New comment by zoenolan in "Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?"

zoenolan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:14:00 +0000

The CTO Craft survey would be my go to buy tends to be quite UK focused.

https://ctocraft.com/blog/compensation-survey-report-2026/

The Art and Engineering of Silpheed

zoenolan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:13:38 +0000

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363813

Points: 6

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New comment by zoenolan in "The TfL Cupboard Filled with Lost Tube Moquettes"

zoenolan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:19:58 +0000

One of my first jobs was working on the website for John Holdsworth (now https://www.camirafabrics.com/), scanning all the different types of moquette