Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB
A delightfully over-engineered solution to an unusual modern problem! Use Bluetooth peripherals with Bluetooth-disabled computers. This project creates a Bluetooth USB HID relay using a Raspberry Pi Zero (or similar OTG-enabled single-board computer). It allows you to use Bluetooth keyboards and mice with computers that have Bluetooth disabled, by presenting the board as a composite […]
B2C billing is harder than B2B billing
We all love a B2B SaaS ❤️. A few months ago I wrote about 14 reasons why building your own billing system (mostly for B2B SaaS) is hard. Here are 6 more so that we can round it up to a nice 20! While we all really do love a B2B, we often neglect to […]
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well deserved. Qwen claim: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct has become the current SOTA open-source code model, matching the coding capabilities of GPT-4o. […]
U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
In order to meet these new deployment targets, we don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Preliminary research from our office shows that a majority of our nuclear power plants could host up to 60 GW of new capacity by building large-scale light water reactors like the AP1000s. That number could grow to 95 GW if […]
AMD’s CPU sales are miles better than Intel
You can trust PC Guide: Our team of experts use a combination of independent consumer research, in-depth testing where appropriate – which will be flagged as such, and market analysis when recommending products, software and services. Find out how we test here. AMD’s latest gaming processor launched on November 7th and the results are in for […]
Zig Reproduced Without Binaries
I decided to bootstrap Zig without using binaries that are checked in the repository and answer if the resulting zig1.wasm in the latest Zig release (0.13.0) is the same the one bootstrapped without using those binaries. TLDR: yes, they are the same: $ sha256sum code/zig{,2}/stage1/zig1.wasm 127909fb8c9610ce3f296d8a48014546c0f85055115002fb3aba4d865dcdbb27 code/zig/stage1/zig1.wasm 127909fb8c9610ce3f296d8a48014546c0f85055115002fb3aba4d865dcdbb27 code/zig2/stage1/zig1.wasm I can now confidently say (and […]
Why Docker Compose Falls Short as Self-Hosting Scales
Summary Docker-compose is a tool for working with Docker containers. It solves very real problems with deploying complex applications. By itself it is not enough to make self-hosting applications simple enough for the mass-market. What we need is something like docker-compose, but at a higher level of abstraction that has a concept of SQL databases, […]
80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC
Current status(okt 2024): This project is built, fully functional, now able to operate at 20MHz CPU speed. See at the bottom for the latest developments! The project consists of a ATX mainboard and a ISA memory card. Purpose and permitted use, cautions for a potential builder of this design This project was created for historical […]
Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all
Names and emails (even Sumit’s) have been redacted to protect the innocent and the guilty. But you know who you are. Who is Sumit B? If you were to ask anyone who was employed at Blackberry on November 7th, 2011 this question there will most likely be a confused look on their face, like why […]
Micron Launches First 60TB PCIe Gen5 SSD with 12GB/S Read Speeds
1. The Micron 6550 ION offers a capacity of up to 61.44TB. Comparisons are made with other 61.44TB NVMe SSDs from Samsung, Solidigm and Western Digital. 2. These comparisons use publicly available competitor information from published sources at the time of the 6550 ION launch, with the 6550 ION and Western Digital drive using a maximum power […]