Hacker News: muffa

New comment by muffa in "The worst job interview I ever had"

muffa — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:25:12 +0000

I had an interview like this, I got annoyed and just responded with "I don't know" to all of his questions. Then the CEO of the company offered me a position, politely declined ofc

New comment by muffa in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

muffa — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:00:10 +0000

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

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn"

muffa — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:34:51 +0000

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.

New comment by muffa in "ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine"

muffa — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:46:22 +0000

Looks very similar to redpanda-connect/benthos

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: To those making 200k+ how did you get there?"

muffa — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:06:47 +0000

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

New comment by muffa in "Meta Sees ~5% Performance Gains to Optimizing the Linux Kernel with Bolt"

muffa — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:02:33 +0000

I know very little about compilers or bolt.

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

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?"

muffa — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:04:03 +0000

Yes all the time for Python, JavaScript and golang

New comment by muffa in "Do People Like Medium?"

muffa — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:55:37 +0000

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

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: Who are your most treasured live coders?"

muffa — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:40:40 +0000

+1, he is entertaining :)

New comment by muffa in "The Thundering Herd Problem"

muffa — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:53:43 +0000

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)

New comment by muffa in "Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss"

muffa — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:50:49 +0000

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

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: If GraphQL Is So Great, Why Doesn't Everyone Use It Already?"

muffa — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:00:15 +0000

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).

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: If GraphQL Is So Great, Why Doesn't Everyone Use It Already?"

muffa — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:24:47 +0000

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.

New comment by muffa in "Which books, courses, projects have improved your programming skills immensely?"

muffa — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:31:52 +0000

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.

New comment by muffa in "Swedes of HN: is it true that Sweden is entrepreneurially successful?"

muffa — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 05:16:05 +0000

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.

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?"

muffa — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 05:05:54 +0000

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

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: What third party Reddit clients still work after July first?"

muffa — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:53:28 +0000

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)

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: Switching from Chrome for Firefox – what does a newbie need to know?"

muffa — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:37:11 +0000

You can get ublock origin on Firefox mobile

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: How do you make $100K+/year outside of the US?"

muffa — Tue, 09 May 2023 05:19:49 +0000

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

New comment by muffa in "Ask HN: How do you make $100K+/year outside of the US?"

muffa — Tue, 09 May 2023 02:19:02 +0000

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.