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johanneskanybal··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
It's almost as if profit isn't directly related to your jira board.

I would expect new disruptors to eat the lunch of the old, but that's slow.

johanneskanybal··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Some pretty creative accounting is the only reason you could consider them earning anything. They're taking a bet in the future they'll earn loads, maybe the will, maybe it will be through tokens or maybe it will be by replacing companies.

But where the business model lands we simply have no idea of currently because the future is in the future.

johanneskanybal··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
Bit dramatic headline. Every it department or whomever governs data on earth doing it's job is at least thinking of how the organization uses ai. What data it is fed, cost, what actions it can take.

Limiting the amount of tools sounds like a sane default in most cases.

Nothing in this necessarily say anything about one of the tools doing a better job than the other in this regard. It might say a little bit about trust though, warranted or not.

johanneskanybal··on Counterintuitive facts about U.S. healthcare
Nothing could surprise me less, it's common knowledge? But well presented key metrics nonetheless.
johanneskanybal··on Where Are All the Data Centers?
it-bubble investor here. I think you're missing the point. Take a look at a 30 year graph of something from that era let's say Ericsson B. Phone networks are still around and very useful that's totally besides the point as far as valuations goes.

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=NASDAQ%3AERIC

johanneskanybal··on GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
I mean agentic coding is a thing but anyone could learn that in a day or week. So the idea of throwing away people that could be the most productive with ai of course make no sense. But it's big corporations, not everything has to make sense. It's most likely a dressed up pure cost saving framed in 2026-lingo.
johanneskanybal··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
It's not magic but for me definitly claude is the way to go. Not expecting magic it's just another level of non-slop than the rest I've tried.
johanneskanybal··on Google Flow Music
"Let's go surfing dude, we'll make some vibes!" This is like if someone lobotomized your grand dad and then created an tik tok account for him.
johanneskanybal··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
It's a great tool, and at 1/10 or 1/100th the cost of actual developers. In the context of yc I guess watch out getting re-disrupted by a smaller team faster than before. But that's really the trend the past 40 years so nothing is new. Well maybe the velocity combined with us loosing it's footing at the same time.

But yea it's not gonna make facebook 20% better tomorrow just that you need 5 people instead of 40 to build the next facebook.

johanneskanybal··on Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?
Yea it was better in the years of extremely low rates. 2020-2022 it was 0.375% of total. Now it's up to 0.888% last year. There's some cases where it might be benefitial to use the "normal" account but for average Joe, not having to track every transaction has generally been very benefitial. And as a result 80-90% of adults own some type of stock either directly or through funds/retirement accounts vs the free market utopia us of 62%.
johanneskanybal··on Yggdrasil Network
No just saying us history is a 200 year thing europe history is counted in millienias, that's not really debatable. In this post it was noridc mythology but it's was all pretty mixed up together and influenced by each other since they where trading and fighting with each other. But that wasn't really the point.
johanneskanybal··on Yggdrasil Network
It's where all of western history comes from so it's not very strange to be popular overall. It's not like us mythology is a thing.
johanneskanybal··on Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?
That always helps. Another thing that helps is the free child care/school/university/health care/elderly care/parenting support/living support that the high taxes provides. The lowest standard is very high, the middle is comfy life but keep less dollars than if you lived in the states, the rich not-surprising gets away here too.
johanneskanybal··on Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?
It's pretty universal in the developed world to have some type of long term savings tax-scheme. In us it's 401k/roth. In canada it's tfsa. in uk it's isa. isa/401k/roth has pretty low caps. tfsa and isk has no cap.

But yea, considering I pay close to 50% tax it's remarkable at the same time I can speculate in the market, make 500% and pay 1% tax on it. Or that people with actual money pay so little.

johanneskanybal··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
It sounds good on paper (pun intended) but policy strikes again, "Can my kid bring home her math book so we can work on the parts she's struggling with?" No of course not it lives in a cupboard at school 90% of the time might get some screen shares from it.
johanneskanybal··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
A lot I guess or noone would use it. Personally two out of my last 4 jobs (contractor so switch often). All social media is bad by nature so just ignore that part. I much prefer having all recruiters in a single place rather than spread out in my email and even worse directly calling. I tend to reply to all requests there short but polite.
johanneskanybal··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
I kind of love Linkedin tbh. It's where you get jobs. They created Kafka. Definitly don't spend a lot of time there though just more if you need a new job.
johanneskanybal··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
Betting on sport is kind of what sports where made for. It's something without any consequence or meaning. The Author mixing that with the dictator and his cronies making buck from their position is offensive.
johanneskanybal··on The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws
Well current social media has been unusable for a couple of years surely?
johanneskanybal··on The beauty and terror of modding Windows
I mean not everyone cheers for the currently best soccer team either, it's partly about what you're invested in. If I had spent many years in Windows dev land I'm sure I would be arguing that side too.
johanneskanybal··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
Maybe this is a weird arena to state the obvious. But you don't need to build a multi-billion vc/public company. Build a smaller revenue generating company without outside funding and it's up to you.
johanneskanybal··on Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
For sure, it's booming in the current climate. My biggest bet for 2026 is Eutelsat which is the biggest star link competitor.
johanneskanybal··on Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
Trump is an obvious Russian agent. Stealing money for himself and destroying all western trust is his only goal.
johanneskanybal··on Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
This is the point of time in history where the people usually start a revolution. Do that.
johanneskanybal··on Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
This is pretty basic tech to replicate if it's needed though. It wasn't needed before so we just used what was there. But crazy to think the place you spawned from 2k years ago couldn't make another basic payment system if it was important lol.
johanneskanybal··on Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
With all the other crazy world-destroying us bullshit, is this also you? 50% you, 50% russia. It's an new gameshow, is it Russian or us?
johanneskanybal··on A Social Filesystem
I think the opportunity is huge, that a new social media without the current flaws will emerge is inevitable and this is could be part of the implementation solution but sure no real universal success. Think it probably needs to come outside of the us to have any credibility.
johanneskanybal··on We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
That’s an easy cop-out and disagree as an European with stronger social nets. But yes this is still a heart warming story.
johanneskanybal··on Removing juries: 'A move towards an authoritarian state'
When I see juries in American movies it always seems like a bit of an joke and manipulating them is a common plot theme. Just very random, the opposite of what I expect from an justice system. Many non-authoritarian states don't use them. Most of Europe and India for instance.
johanneskanybal··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
I mean if revolution isn't in the cards this term I don't know what would get you there.
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