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How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
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Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board
Press releases from 23andMe Research Institute.
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Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.
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Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate
On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.
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How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
Possibly the one you're Googling about.
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Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
Perplexity AI claims it sends a user agent and respects robots.txt but it absolutely does not
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I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
The personal website of Elias Daler about programming, technology and videogames
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CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms
The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and Cyprus, and that its founder has launched…
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Designing a Lego orrery
Designing a Lego orrery - Personal blog about game development, programming and making
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Stop Acting Like You're Famous
You aren’t famous. Anything you do or create will probably receive little to no attention, so stop optimizing for a non-existent audience and instead focus on what makes you enjoy the activity.
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Thomas E. Kurtz has died
CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
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Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
Secure and private AI processing in the cloud poses a formidable new challenge. To support advanced features of Apple Intelligence with larger foundation models, we created Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a groundbreaking cloud intelligence system designed specifically for private AI processing. Built with custom Apple…
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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
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CSS for printing to paper
At work, one of the things I do pretty often is write print generators in HTML to recreate and replace forms that the company has traditionally done handwritten on paper or in Excel. This allows the company to move into new web-based tools where the form is autofilled by URL parameters from our database, while getting…
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iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Apple today introduced iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, featuring Apple Intelligence and innovative pro camera features.
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Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that sentence is at best unclear and at worst nonsense. "Auth" can mean at least two things: authentication or authorization [1] . Which do we mean for an "auth system"? It's never perfectly clear and, unfortunately, we often mean…
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A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.
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The Monospace Web
Monospace fonts are dear to many of us. Some find them more readable, consistent, and beautiful, than their proportional alternatives. Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Or are we hopelessly nostalgic? I’m not sure. But I like them, and that’s why I started experimenting with all-monospace…
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Inside a $1 radar motion sensor
I recently got some cheap microwave motion sensors, mostly because I was wondering how China managed to make a radar for under a dollar:
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Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that's what's happening. There's not much uglier than trying to tear someone down because they
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Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.
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How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
How do you transfer files off an Apple laptop from 1994? It's harder than it sounds!
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Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous…