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The irony to have the EU criticised for regulation on one side but complete government control of access on the other.

We focused on occupation-level shifts in remote work rather than personal choices, as decisions to work remotely may themselves reflect individuals’ mental health status

Understanding remote work’s impact on mental health is important for workers deciding where to work

Remote work is not for everyone so if you are someone who predominantly makes their social connections in an office being forced to work remotely will have an impact.

However I think a lot who choose to work remotely have friends outside of work. I know this study focuses on those who live alone but it may also be very different for those who live with a partner/family/friends.

Anecdotally I have found that people who want social interaction in the office push for everyone in the office (rather selfishly in my opinion) because without enough people in - for example in a hybrid model - they don’t get the same kick.

Zed - https://zed.dev/

Integrates a lot of agents (I use it with OpenRouter and directly with Pi) natively, is fast (you don't realise how laggy VSCode and its forks are).

Biggest disadvantage: lack of extensions. Lots of quality of life missing (e.g. gitignore integration to add/append gitignore files for different languages).

It's worth considering why you are choosing a European stack.

Is it to support local/European companies - Great. Is it because you don't want to be at risk of the US and the CLOUD Act - Not so great. Any company that has servers in the US (which Hetzner and basically all CDNs do) are still vulnerable to the CLOUD Act and that includes servers in Europe.

OP here. I do like Opus but I don't default to it for everything. My CC usage is a lot of Haiku/Sonnet and is also very bursty (bursts throughout the month, not a day).

I find that a lot of my Claude usage goes unused and then when I'm coding or leaning on agents I hit a limit and have to wait. I don't like that dynamic. I do have Extra Usage enabled (with a cap) but then I'm spending more than the $100 I already do.

I'm learning that a lot of people seem to consistently stay within limits and that works for them but I was looking for something different for myself.

The real pain is that Anthropic don't easily quantify usage (which can now change over the day). How many tokens is it? Minimum? Maximum? I tried to quantify this with OpenTelemetry for a while but have decided to move to this more flexible setup.

A non-profit identity service.

Uses government IDs that a lot of people already have and saves signed credentials to your phone. There is a server element for the verification process but it runs all in-memory (follow the Mullvad model and not even have persistent storage in the servers).

It's fun. Get to practice mobile development (Flutter), use some local GPUs, learn about the changes to JWTs for signed, selective disclosure, Bitstrings for progressive disclosure lists etc.

Landing page is https://agora.gdn/ in case anyone wants to try a beta in the future.

I had a similar opinion a couple of years ago, content with more of an autocomplete.

Now I'm happy with agents as the models and harnesses have improved significantly but the token usage comes at a cost.

Thank you for taking the time to explain that - makes sense. I lifted what was present in your terms of service as I'd like to understand the minimum time I have.

I'm always interested in how people use tools. I like to have a full editor to review code as a complement to the CLI and as I don't often use hooks the integration is also good enough for me.

1. What do you use the hooks for?

2. Do you use an editor alongside the CLI to review code or only examine the diffs?

I did. Perhaps too much consumption of AI responses but articles and engagement are written by me - a human.

You are absolutely correct, I was not aware of this. I will update the article accordingly and perhaps it's more worthwhile to stay solely on Cursor with the limited models.

Sadly Zed seems to add 10% so it's still more worthwhile to use OpenRouter.

If only Zed had more extensions I would use it consistently over Cursor to be honest but for now Cursor remains my daily driver.

I like the option for different models that I just don't get with Claude Code. I want an IDE to monitor files and understand the code, not just see snippets (I know that there is still the Editor view in Cursor but with the push towards the Agent view I feel it's headed into a Conductor direction and personally I'm not ready for that).

LiveMap | Geospatial Engineers (Data & Routing) | 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.

Working on the routing engine you'll extend off the shelf routing engines (Graphhopper) to take into account dynamic run-time preferences & attributes (think temporal).

Please find more information and application forms at the links:

• Geospatial data/backend engineer - https://tally.so/r/68vdyB

• Routing engineer - https://tally.so/r/obdAY1

Happy hacking

As someone on Reddit pointed out, now that it's in the Grafana stack you can also use standard alert management & notification tools to send updates on usage and alerts for abnormal spikes.

You can get user prompts and tool calls in the logs (but not system prompts) although you do have to set a couple of extra environment variables.

It's under the `prompt` and `tool_parameter` fields in the logs.

    {service_name=~"claude-code"} | prompt != ""  | line_format `prompt={{.prompt}}`

Claude Code supports using OpenTelemetry to gather some metrics including token usage, cost, user prompts and tool calls (unfortunately no system prompts).

This is possible without custom certificates, MITM or proxies. However you do need something to collect, store and visualise the OTEL data.

I use Grafana Alloy (running in Docker) and Grafana Cloud for this but you could use any OTEL provider including SigNoz.

Leave it running, track your usage and when you hit limits look back to understand how many tokens that actually was.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Amateur question, how are people using this for coding?

Direct chat and copy pasting code? Seems clunky.

Or manually switching in cursor? Although is extra cost and not required for a lot of tasks where Cursor tab is faster and good enough. So need to opt in on demand.

Cline + open router in VSCode?

Something else?

I have no connection but seeing as these conversations often discuss alternatives I'd like to mention https://screenrun.app/.

It's web based, offers plenty of features and can be had for a one-time of $40.

I've only used it a handful of times however I keep coming back.

"Responsible capitalism" is not a term you often hear but it's something I think we could strive for.

Not-for-large-profit is a set of guiding principals that tries to sit in the middle of the non-profit and profit-at-all-costs spectrum.

This is my initial attempt at an idea I've had floating around for a while and I would love to see feedback either in comments here or discussions/PRs on the GitHub repo.

Thanks and happy hacking,

No we shouldn't be but I think the point here is more that "this company's sales are dropping".

I am evaluating a new machine to replace my laptop & desktop for coding (Python, Go, React), data exploration, running containers and low resource business day-to-day (Microsoft Suite, Slack, light image editing etc.) - not necessarily all the same time but often.. I travel a medium amount so can't just use a desktop but running both seems cumbersome.

The M4 MacBook Airs are very tempting and I think the size & weight of the 15" is not as offputting as it once was. However I agree with the criticism in this article. A lesser quality display and lacking a little power (M4 Pro option would be nice).

A 14" MacBook Pro is the current draw. Slightly heavier but option for M4 Pro as well as more memory (up to 48GB) as well as nanotexture for out and about.

I love the idea of the Framework 13" machines with Ubuntu. Almost same weight as a 13" Air and with strong upgradeability. Disadvantages (to me) are the battery life on Linux is significantly less than an Apple device (although hard to find exact numbers), and even with the new Ryzen AI Max processors and the DDR5 memory, speed is much lower compared to the M-series soldered on a chip (although I'm open to counter points that this difference in speed is not worth it).

The Apple software ecosystem is a soft grab but to be honest there are options to Apple Photos which is the one I use the most.

*Avoid ISP Routers wherever possible.

Sometimes they just don't allow you to use it. In the past I've had ISP router that had a heavily restricted custom firmware on it and a "hidden" username password setup for authorizing with the ISP. I couldn't use my own.

In that situation I had to aim to use it as the modem and have a second router it unloaded to. Not ideal.

Now I can freely pick hardware with my current ISP. Just need to find the time/money to upgrade to fibre everywhere to capitalize on the 10Gb/s.