kisamoto (u/kisamoto)

kisamoto commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn

Esophagus4 · 4 days ago

Someone once said to me, be very careful about negotiating with leverage… when you twist someone’s arm, they’ll say, “I’ll remember that. You may have won this one, but I’m gonna win the next one.”

Sadly, the US has done this to ourselves… all this arm twisting and strong-manning is coming home to roost.

It’s not clear that patchwork EU government back offices migrating off Teams will hurt US tech, but long term, in aggregate, this is going to be a headache for American tech.

EU can’t out innovate US tech, but they can make it harder to dominate their markets.

kisamoto · 4 days ago

> EU can’t out innovate US tech

why not?

Okay not today but China was known as the cheap copier and is now the innovator.

kisamoto commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn

uyzstvqs · 4 days ago

This does not bode well. Matrix is honestly not good, as someone who has tried to use it. It's slow, janky, often unstable, and poorly standardized.

My suggestion: https://threema.com/en/products/work (hosted) or https://zulip.com/ (OSS self-hosted).

kisamoto · 4 days ago

Personally I've found Matrix significantly more user friendly than Threema work. Zulip I haven't used in anger so I can't comment on that but I've seen a few places that even open source they charge per user for things like notifications. Not ideal IMHO. There should be an option to replace notifications with a separate service.

It's hard to find a decent service that ticks all the boxes but I do sincerely hope that the EU can support Matrix to bring it up to the standard that we all deserve.

kisamoto commented on The collapse of "Human Signal" on the web agoranet.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/kisamoto

kisamoto · a month ago

Hi all,

I've been thinking a lot about why I feel disheartened at the state of the internet and of possible ways to approach fixing it.

I believe the root cause is the lack of a privacy-preserving 'Proof of Humanity.' My approach to fix this combines biometric passports (ICAO 9303) with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs/Confidential Computing) for verification. We then push a signed payload back to your device, not centralising any data.

I know 'Passport' + 'Internet' sounds like a privacy nightmare and this type of solution is generally disapproved upon by HN. However I'd like to offer an approach that tries to set such a service up as an integral part of the open web: Non-profit (Switzerland for what it's worth) association to avoid monetisation pressures to exploit user data and open source in a Tursted Execution Environment (TEE) to offer some additional guarantees about the processing of user data.

To be clear, this is not pushing for mandatory age verification - that is not the aim. It is however trying to increase the "human signal" on the web as we interact with each other while maintaining as much privacy as possible.

kisamoto commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

kisamoto · 3 months ago

LiveMap | Geospatial Data/Backend and Mobile Engineers | Full-Time | Switzerland or Remote (CH, EU, UK)

Visa sponsorship is not provided.

LiveMap is a funded startup with a vision to build the next generation of mapping apps (think hyper-personalised Google Maps). How that looks is still being explored so we're building prototypes, getting them into customer hands and iterating quickly. We're looking to bring on a couple of people to help accelerate this development process.

As a data engineer you'll set up a data pipeline, work with product to identify relevant datasets, connect, persist and expose that data.

As a mobile engineer you'll be the UI delivering value to the customer. We are testing hypothesis in weeks and leveraging tools like Claude Code to do it.

Please find more information and application forms at the links:

• Geospatial data/backend engineer - https://tally.so/r/n095jj

• Mobile engineer - https://tally.so/r/w56N1Q

Happy hacking

kisamoto commented on Apps SDK developers.openai.com/app... · Posted by u/alvis

darkamaul · 4 months ago

I don’t see why you wouldn’t book a flight using an AI assistant. No one’s saying it should do it completely unsupervised (maybe that’ll come much later), but having something that can research the best routes based on my criteria and show me several options — with a single click to purchase the one I find most convenient — is something I’d love.

It could even work against the dynamic pricing algorithms airlines use to maximize revenue: if I have a tireless assistant exploring every possible combination to find the cheapest ticket, it’ll probably do a much better job than I ever could.

kisamoto · 4 months ago

I suppose you just have to trust that it's incentivized to find you the best route and not only offer you 3 options which it says are the best, but are actually paid promotions.

kisamoto commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

VagabundoP · 6 months ago

Two things that will hurt us in the long run, working from home and AI. I'm generally in favour of both, but with newbies it hurts them as they are not spending enough face to face time with seniors to learn on the job.

And AI will hurt them in their own development and with it taking over the tasks they would normally cut their teeth on.

We'll have to find newer ways of helping the younger generation get in the door.

kisamoto · 6 months ago

I would argue that just being in the office or not using AI doesn't guarantee any better learning of younger generations. Without proper guidance a junior would still struggle regardless of their location or AI pilot.

The challenge now is for companies, managers and mentors to adapt to more remote and AI assisted learning. If a junior can be taught that it's okay to reach out (and be given ample opportunities to do so), as well as how to productively use AI to explain concepts that they may feel too scared to ask because they're "basics", then I don't see why this would hurt in the long run.

kisamoto commented on How I build software quickly evanhahn.com/how-i-build-... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

kukkeliskuu · 7 months ago

In recent years, I have learned how to build sufficiently robust systems fast.

Here are some things I have learned:

* Learn one tool well. It is often better to use a tool that you know really well than something that on the surface seems to be more appropriate for the problem. For extremely large number of real-life problems, Django hits the sweet spot.

Several times I have started a project thinking that maybe Django is too heavy, but soon the project outgrew the initial idea. For example, I just created a status page app. It started as a single file Django app, but luckily realized soon that it makes no sense to go around Djangos limitations.

* In most applications that fit the Django model, data model is at the center of everything. Even if making a rought prototype, never postpone data model refactoring. It just becomes more and more expensive and difficult to change over time.

* Most applications don't need to be single-page apps nor require heavy frontend frameworks. Even for those that can benefit from it, traditional Django views is just fine for 80% of the pages. For the rest, consider AlpineHJS/HTMX

* Most of the time, it is easier to build the stuff yourself. Need to store and edit customers? With Django, you can develop simple a CRM app inside your app in just few hours. Integrating commercial CRM takes much more time. This applies to everything: status page, CRM, support system, sales processes, etc. as well as most Django apps/libraries.

* Always choose extremely boring technology. Just use python/Django/Postgres for everything. Forget Kubernetes, Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, etc. Alpine/HTMX is an exception, because you can avoid much of the Javascript stack.

kisamoto · 7 months ago

Fully agree. I would also say it's easy enough to use Django for (almost) everything for a self contained SaaS startup. Marketing can be done via Wagtail. Support is managed by a reusable app that is a simple static element on every page (similar to Intercom) that redirects to a standard Django page, collects some info about the issue including the user who made it (if authenticated) etc.

I try to simplify the stack further and use SQLite with Borg for backups. Caching leverages Diskcache.

Deployment is slightly more complicated. I use containers and podman with systemd but could easily be a git pull & gunicorn restart.

My frontend practices have gone through some cycles. I found Alpine & HTMX too restrictive to my liking and instead prefer to use Typescript with django-vite integration. Yes it means using some of the frontend tooling but it means I can use TailwindCSS, React, Typescript etc if I want.

kisamoto commented on ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure ethz.ch/en/news-and-event... · Posted by u/andy99

kisamoto · 7 months ago

Any info on context length or comparable performance? Press release is unfortunately lacking on technical details.

Also I'm curious if there was any reason to make such a PR without actually releasing the model (due Summer)? What's the delay? Or rather what was the motivation for a PR?