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New comment by zinssmeister in "German economy contracts 0.2% in 2024 in second consecutive annual slowdown"

zinssmeister — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:37:34 +0000

Germany’s economy has been heavily dependent on specific sectors, particularly the automotive and machinery industries. These sectors are so vital that any decline in their performance could have significant ripple effects across the economy. However, the global market is increasingly shifting towards electric vehicles (EVs) with advanced software interfaces. Companies like Tesla and Chinese manufacturers have taken the lead in this space, while German carmakers have struggled to adapt to the EV and software revolution.

Germany also has been facing two big challenges that have seen limited action: rising energy costs and slowing exports to China, both of which have started around 2020. The decision to rely heavily on Russian energy to sustain its industrial economy has proven to be a bad idea. The influx of low- or unskilled labor into a social welfare system, coupled with the challenges of cultural integration (German culture isn't the sexiest of things), has also turned out to be a bad idea.

Bonus issue: Germany’s taxes are high, particularly for individuals and workers. Some of the highest in the world. This gives consumers less $ to consume with.

New comment by zinssmeister in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

zinssmeister — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:01:29 +0000

Great approach! For the past 2 years I keep experimenting with different ways to track day to day productivity. It has helped me tremendously in assessing how I should feel at the end of the day about my work day and the amount of time I put towards work. (I tend to overwork myself significantly). It is of course a lot harder to apply this approach to individual productivity tracking across my teams. But I do now believe, based on self experiments and within smaller teams, that there is generally a lack of visibility of knowledge worker productivity. Especially within larger companies. WFH and hybrid makes this more crucial to have for both management and self assessments on the IC level.

New comment by zinssmeister in "Security Architecture Anti-Patterns"

zinssmeister — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:35:52 +0000

Excellent and to the point. I see this apply to many technology SMB companies as well. We once compiled a few actionable recommendations for smaller companies that host on AWS and that post ended up being our most popular article https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/11/21/security-recommen...

Show HN: Sonar – Instantly evaluate and continuously monitor apps

zinssmeister — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:24:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.templarbit.com/sonar/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21422141

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by zinssmeister in "Golden: Mapping human knowledge"

zinssmeister — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:11:01 +0000

this is a great idea. First URL I faved in the past 12 months. Good luck Jude!

A Guide to ML for Application Security

zinssmeister — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 21:43:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/08/13/a-guide-to-machine-learning-for-application-security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19516936

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Key insights from analyzing data breaches and cyber-attacks of 2018

zinssmeister — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:47:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2019/01/10/we-analyzed-data-breaches-and-cyber-attacks-of-2018-here-are-the-key-insights/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19099741

Points: 52

# Comments: 4

Tracking Users with CSS (2018)

zinssmeister — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:37:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/03/20/tracking-users-with-css/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18974499

Points: 63

# Comments: 16

Security recommendations for hosting on AWS

zinssmeister — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:16:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/11/21/security-recommendations-for-hosting-on-aws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18590506

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by zinssmeister in "In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate"

zinssmeister — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:13:12 +0000

Can second this. I travel to Tokyo often and have purchased Kit Kat to bring back home. Mostly tourists buy these, none of my local japanese friends do

New comment by zinssmeister in "Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users"

zinssmeister — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:19:47 +0000

No, but that sounds entertaining!

New comment by zinssmeister in "Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users"

zinssmeister — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:37:20 +0000

We compiled details on this breach here, including some insights on the attack vector https://breachroom.templarbit.com/facebook-is-breached-by-ha...

New comment by zinssmeister in "Google CA Root Inclusion Request"

zinssmeister — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 04:07:53 +0000

We just published the “SSL wars” story between Symantec and Google https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/09/07/the-story-of-why-...

This adds another layer of color to that story.

New comment by zinssmeister in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)"

zinssmeister — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:49:06 +0000

Templarbit (YC S17) | San Francisco, Irvine, Frankfurt, Tokyo | Onsite | https://www.templarbit.com

Companies of all sizes are incredibly vulnerable inside the application layer. Nearly half of all breaches originate on a website or web application and lead to devastating, often headline generating losses of customer data or other malicious activity. We at Templarbit are building the solution to this with the first intelligent security platform that integrates tightly with the application it is protecting, helping businesses defend themselves from breaches and provide them with real time insights into the state of their security posture. Our team has previously worked on increasing the application layer security of the pentagon and large fortune 5 enterprises.

Open roles:

- Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack)

- Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, React, Go, Python, Node

Only apply if you like hard problems in high stake environments. Send an email with your resume as PDF and the subject line "Engineering @ Templarbit" to hello+hn@templarbit.com

New comment by zinssmeister in "Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed"

zinssmeister — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:29:45 +0000

Incredibly difficult to even figure out who the company behind Spyfone is. Anyone know?

Podcast: How Sentry is building products for engineers

zinssmeister — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 19:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/08/01/the-engineering-hangout-with-vlad-cretu-building-products-for-engineers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17682724

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zinssmeister in "Podcast with Erik Berlin on Founding Breaker and Doing YC"

zinssmeister — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:00:55 +0000

This episode was fun to record. Thanks again Erik for making time to come chat with us and letting us peek inside the day to day at Breaker.

New comment by zinssmeister in "Evil Teacher: Code Injection in Moodle"

zinssmeister — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:56:18 +0000

This is one of the better write up formats I have seen. Good work Robin.

New comment by zinssmeister in "Highlights of Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report"

zinssmeister — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 01:33:18 +0000

Gabe, thanks for that. Just checked the Appendix E section you mentioned, instantly a fan of what I saw there. Glad you have filters in place rather than just taking any breach report into the data set.

New comment by zinssmeister in "Highlights of Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report"

zinssmeister — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 01:12:47 +0000

Thank you for sharing this, haven't seen this before. Pretty interesting.