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muffa | 3 months ago | on: Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

I love claude, but looking at google it seems like it will just be a matter of time before Google/Gemini will be a better product. Just looking at how much Google have improved their AI game the last couple months. I'm putting my money on google, I assume the reason they are doing an IPO right now is to be able to cash in on the investment before google surpasses them.

It's a hot take, I know :D

muffa | 8 months ago | on: Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn

What fixed it for me was to stop consuming caffeine. One month after removing caffeine I noticed my sleep got waaay better and my ability to focus got way better. I feel like caffeine gives you a false sense of being alert and focused when in reality you are exhausted.

muffa | 10 months ago | on: ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine

Looks very similar to redpanda-connect/benthos

muffa | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: To those making 200k+ how did you get there?

Not OP, but if you charge $100 per hour: $100 * 40h/week * 52 weeks/year = $208k

muffa | 1 year ago | on: Meta Sees ~5% Performance Gains to Optimizing the Linux Kernel with Bolt

I know very little about compilers or bolt.

But what you just described sounds awesome!(and crazy)

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?

Yes all the time for Python, JavaScript and golang

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Do People Like Medium?

I hate it, it annoys me that content behind a paywall gets good page-rank.

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who are your most treasured live coders?

+1, he is entertaining :)

muffa | 2 years ago | on: The Thundering Herd Problem

Props to encore to writing interesting blogs, also I just want to say I tried the encore product and it's awesome(I only used it for a hobby project but still)

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

They should rename their site to 403media, the article is behind a paywall.

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: If GraphQL Is So Great, Why Doesn't Everyone Use It Already?

I actually don't use GraphQL in my current position, so I don't think to much about it any more. Intresting tools which I might consider in the future(If I have to write GraphQL).

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: If GraphQL Is So Great, Why Doesn't Everyone Use It Already?

I find it to be more complex(Hence more error prone), less performant, harder to resolve bugs.

For a queries and mutations you still need to write business-logic and database access which is very similar to how you would develop a REST-API.

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Which books, courses, projects have improved your programming skills immensely?

I enjoyed reading the book "Building Microservices" available at https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-microservices-.... The book covers various aspects modern software development, such as observability and resiliency. Despite its title, the book is not exclusively focused on microservices, and the author does not unequivocally assert that microservices are the ultimate solution.

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Swedes of HN: is it true that Sweden is entrepreneurially successful?

I agree with the other posts.

I would also like to add that our taxes are rather high on income but very low on dividends from business. If you own a business you take out a salary which is under a certain tax bracket and then pay yourself dividends using the company profits which is very lucrative. It adds incentive for you to start a business.

We also have a good startup ecosystem, if you are going to start a startup it helps if you have worked at a startup and can bring your experiences. Germany to me feels much more like a country of enterprises compared with Sweden.

For the Americans, we don't worry about healthcare, saving for our kids college fund etc. so we might have more risk tolerance due to this.

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?

I switched to firefox since it has ublock origin as a plugin on phones. AFAIK chrome does not hence browsing on my phone is useless with all the ads I get using chrome

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What third party Reddit clients still work after July first?

RiF is still working for me, I can't login but I can still read. It's pretty annoying tbh, I got a feed that I absolutely don't and I can't comment posts. Other than that, it's still much better experience than the official app(I'm salty af)

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Switching from Chrome for Firefox – what does a newbie need to know?

You can get ublock origin on Firefox mobile

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you make $100K+/year outside of the US?

I don't think so, I think the tax is only 20% on the dividends

muffa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you make $100K+/year outside of the US?

In Sweden it's pretty easy as an developer:

1. Start a business

2. Start contracting anything north of 80$ will give you a really solid income

3. Through your business give yourself a ~45k SEK a month salary

4. Pay yourself dividends from the business profit. You pay very low taxes on dividends

This is a model many many SW engineers in Sweden follow, also running your own business it super simple and for finding clients you can use bigger contracting firms(AFRY) which will take a % of your hourly salary.

muffa | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are Scrum-Masters Useful / Worth a Full-Time Salary?

What kind of protection does a team need?