Hacker News on Sunday, 7 April 2024

How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain(eidel.io)

565 points by olieidel 2 years ago | 872 comments

Blog post by Oliver Eidel describing the 14-step bureaucratic process of founding a company in Germany, contrasted with Estonia's e-residency.

PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS(github.com)

379 points by rickcarlino 2 years ago | 120 comments

GitHub repository for PumpkinOS, a GPL-3.0 licensed open-source re-implementation of the PalmOS operating system.

Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests(github.com)

359 points by n2d4 2 years ago | 75 comments

GitHub repository for pgmock, an open-source in-memory PostgreSQL implementation for unit and end-to-end tests.

Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video](youtube.com)

304 points by duringmath 2 years ago | 71 comments

Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers(arxiv.org)

262 points by milliondreams 2 years ago | 76 comments

Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

233 points by rwallace 2 years ago | 65 comments

Blog posts, sorted by sleep(breckyunits.com)

233 points by breck 2 years ago | 50 comments

The lifecycle of a code AI completion(sourcegraph.com)

215 points by tosh 2 years ago | 73 comments

Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding(techcrunch.com)

213 points by Rafsark 2 years ago | 104 comments

What John von Neumann did at Los Alamos (2020)(3quarksdaily.com)

208 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 118 comments

Is the frequency domain a real place?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

201 points by zdw 2 years ago | 125 comments

Google Public DNS's approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks(security.googleblog.com)

195 points by tatersolid 2 years ago | 51 comments

Glory is only 11MB/sec away (2023)(thmsmlr.com)

179 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 118 comments

Command injection and backdoor account in D-Link NAS devices(github.com)

179 points by campuscodi 2 years ago | 85 comments

Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022)(smithsonianmag.com)

177 points by throwoutway 2 years ago | 48 comments

Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water(cbsnews.com)

169 points by geox 2 years ago | 155 comments

Groq CEO: 'We No Longer Sell Hardware'(eetimes.com)

166 points by frozenport 2 years ago | 120 comments

SentenceTransformers: Python framework for sentence, text and image embeddings(sbert.net)

162 points by tosh 2 years ago | 48 comments

Adventures Making Vegemite(daveon.design)

159 points by vintagedave 2 years ago | 108 comments

Rpgp: Pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP(github.com)

148 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 74 comments

It's not what the world needs right now(thebaffler.com)

138 points by cribbles 2 years ago | 96 comments

ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down(elephantsql.com)

137 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 98 comments

How to think about HTML responsive images(danburzo.ro)

137 points by danburzo 2 years ago | 29 comments

Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator(xemu.app)

129 points by InitEnabler 2 years ago | 35 comments

When a black hole and a neutron star merge(mpg.de)

120 points by belter 2 years ago | 66 comments

ClangQL: A tool to run SQL-like query on C/C++ Code(github.com)

116 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 25 comments

Phytomining – Extracting Minerals via Plants(arpa-e.energy.gov)

116 points by Gaishan 2 years ago | 48 comments

Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories(diffoscope.org)

112 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Linux Command Line(linuxcommand.org)

99 points by lovestaco 2 years ago | 14 comments

Greaseweazle(retrocmp.de)

96 points by mikerg87 2 years ago | 29 comments

What makes housing so expensive?(construction-physics.com)

92 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 125 comments

Xkcd 1928: Seven Years (2017)(xkcd.com)

83 points by mitch3x3 2 years ago | 4 comments

The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"(lareviewofbooks.org)

80 points by martinlaz 2 years ago | 41 comments

PM2: Production Process Manager with a Built-In Load Balancer(github.com)

72 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 54 comments

Minibone: practical end-to-end encryption for web apps(github.com)

71 points by kpdemetriou 2 years ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync(flashnotesapp.com)

70 points by munhitsu 2 years ago | 21 comments

Boeing put Wall Street first, safety second ahead of Alaska Air blowout(seattletimes.com)

67 points by mji 2 years ago | 43 comments

Best Buy Geek Squad employees report mass layoffs(theverge.com)

64 points by iancmceachern 2 years ago | 54 comments

Navy cancels ship briefings after damning internal report(politico.com)

63 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 38 comments

Autodafe: Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools(gitlab.com)

61 points by shrubble 2 years ago | 45 comments

Facebook banned website that links to critical article, claims phishing(bsky.app)

60 points by jrflowers 2 years ago | 31 comments

AI is not your friend(gerrymcgovern.com)

59 points by jethronethro 2 years ago | 24 comments

U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska(aptnnews.ca)

58 points by nithinj 2 years ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management(github.com)

55 points by FascinatedBox 2 years ago | 43 comments

Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids(ft.com)

54 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 years ago | 11 comments

ReAMP, a Winamp Remake in Swift(re-amp.ru)

52 points by rrr_oh_man 2 years ago | 21 comments

LLMs can't simulate a Turing machine reliably(twitter.com)

51 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 42 comments

Landfills Leak More Planet-Baking Methane Than We Thought(grist.org)

51 points by frasermarlow 2 years ago | 37 comments

The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin(theguardian.com)

51 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 15 comments

Nix – A One Pager(github.com)

51 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 28 comments

Sophia: Scalable Stochastic 2nd-Order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training(arxiv.org)

49 points by tosh 2 years ago | 2 comments

NASA's LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea's Danuri Moon Orbiter(nasa.gov)

48 points by wawayanda 2 years ago | 8 comments

ActivityPub/Nostr/At-Bluesky Compared(nate.mecca1.net)

47 points by nameequalsmain 2 years ago | 49 comments

Autonomous Weapons: The False Promise of Civilian Protection (2022)(cigionline.org)

45 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 years ago | 39 comments

Neurons in the Brain Appear to Follow a Distinct Mathematical Pattern(msn.com)

45 points by MarlonPro 2 years ago | 8 comments

New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto(old.reddit.com)

45 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 10 comments

AI assists clinicians in responding to patient messages at Stanford Medicine(med.stanford.edu)

44 points by namanyayg 2 years ago | 35 comments

Currying(wiki.haskell.org)

41 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 61 comments

Fire alarm audio detection, using FFTs and Go(github.com)

40 points by pdubouilh 2 years ago | 37 comments

Helixx: $6 a day EV subscription service could disrupt the auto industry(newatlas.com)

36 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 35 comments