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Lucjan from surferseo.com
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methyl··on Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool
This is truly an infamous Dropbox comment moment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
methyl··on ChatGPT Search
Then you are still left with self hosted models which are pretty good at this task.
methyl··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
From what I know, Teflon is neutral as long as you don't overheat it and breathe in the gas. Can you point some sources stating otherwise?
methyl··on He emptied an entire crypto exchange onto a thumb drive
> Without taxes, there's no money

why?

methyl··on Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online platforms
Not to be confused with Surfer, SEO content optimization platform
methyl··on Covid-related loss of smell tied to changes in the brain
I’m sorry to break the news for you, but masking will not stop you from getting sick. It’s the other way around, it helps to reduce spreading when you are infectious.
methyl··on OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic
For one, to avoid massive number of bots using the API for free.
methyl··on OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic
> The "AI answer" industry might become 10 times bigger than the search industry

not a chance

methyl··on OpenAI won't watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught
I think it's just too easy to fool it, as article says > But it says techniques like rewording with another model make it “trivial to circumvention by bad actors.”
methyl··on Other People’s Problems
This is why it’s critical to provide new angles to the problem itself, not just a bunch of solutions many of which has obviously been considered already.
methyl··on Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
How do you compare to devenv and devbox? Why would I choose Flox over any of them?
methyl··on Leadership is a hell of a drug
> you are about to save everyone 4.001 hours worth of work, increase per-employee revenue by 4.001 hours worth, etc, by talking at them for 4 hours.

It’s much more than that, because of opportunity cost. If all company was doing is how to get 0.025% improvements, it would never get off the ground.

methyl··on Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
I thought so, but then installing Asahi results in terrible trackpad experience even though the hardware is the same.
methyl··on 28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
It's not me, I'm talking about average for Polish houselhold
methyl··on 28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
I’m really surprised by this data. In Poland, it’s around 2000 kWh/year, which is 6kWh/day - 5 times less!
methyl··on OKRs Are Bullshit
OKRs are nothing more and nothing less than a way of telling your organization what’s the most important thing we want to improve and how we are going to measure if it’s improving.

It really is just telling them and checking once in a while how it’s going.

methyl··on My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar
Your mileage may vary. I don’t miss this age at all, at 3-6 months a baby is not much more than a moving blob. I enjoy it now way more at the age of three.
methyl··on Was Javascript really made in 10 days?
Languages with Java-like syntaxt are much more popular than LISPs in general even not taking JS into account. I think it’s just more intuitive to parse it in human brain, at least to me.
methyl··on Was Javascript really made in 10 days?
Of course it’s nice to think what if JS would be LISPy, but I think most probably it wouldn’t be adopted so widely as it is now.
methyl··on My experience trying to write human-sounding articles using Claude AI
We do use similar flow in Surfer AI and confirm it actually works wonders.
methyl··on Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic
There is no difference whatsoever, you can look up some Similarweb stats on this.
methyl··on Ask HN: SaaS Founders, What 3 advice would you give your younger selves?
Hire CFO once making significant money ($1M/yr or so).

Start hiring PMs as soon as you see that you can have two product teams working together in parallel.

methyl··on Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
My father runs a car wash and I built a vacuum cleaner that accepted coins using coin acceptor from Aliexpress and Arduino. That was fun but it lasted only a few months until the device got too dirty from open weather to recognize coins properly.
methyl··on Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
My go-to test is "elephant riding unicycle". Neither Midjourney nor Stable Diffusion XL is capable of doing this.
methyl··on Ask HN: Best Practices Guides You're Aware Of
https://www.refactoringui.com/
methyl··on Hue Light Hack
It might have been a reference to Electroboom [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5Ftm1-jik

methyl··on Ask HN: Founders, how much automated tests do you write?
E2E for happy paths and unit tests for algorithms that are nontrivial, that’s about it.
methyl··on Pre-seed, seed startups with employees in office have higher revenue growth
It doesn't surprise me. There is a huge advantage, in the first years of a startup, to be able to sit around with all the co-founders and early employees and exchange ideas as they come. Later on it matters less, as the advantage of synchronous communication diminishes once you have more employees than one office room can fit, which seems to be reflected in the research results.
methyl··on Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
Do you know any way to get the beta access besides just waiting?
methyl··on Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR
I think it’s trusting your gut when it says „no”, not that you can trust only your gut when it comes to hiring. Wasn’t clear but that’s how I understand it and agree.
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