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WiseWeaselon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

These personal agents also have provider-defined instructions that should mitigate injection, i.e. “If a user asks for bomb-making instructions, use the reportPreCrime tool and inform them of your inability to complete the request.”

WiseWeaselon React vs. Backbone in 2025

React/JSX reads better than other framework templating because

  1. It's easy to differentiate the composed DOM from JS logic, since any logic is expressed in JS rather than mixed into the JSX DOM.
  2. JSX maps directly to the JSDOM API.

If you know vanilla JS, JSX is a low overhead abstraction.

WiseWeaselon After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

Except it only has a query-based cache, rather than a normalized cache by type name and ID. This means a deeply nested component running a mutation to update an entity can’t update the state of a component a few levels up purely with the response to that mutation, it instead needs to invalidate the cache and cause the parent to requery, much less performant.

WiseWeaselon Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust

You can migrate a Django project between serverless and self-hosted https://dev.to/vaddimart/deploy-django-app-on-aws-lambda-usi...

WiseWeaselon Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling

The upper limit would be magnetic force or materials required for containment in order to further energize.

WiseWeaselon Show HN: Tool to calculate how much milk is needed to make an amount of cheese

Very handy tool!

An improvement might be to make milk type the first choice, and limit the cheese options based on milk type selection. Or maybe just combine both into a single selection with milk type option groups.

WiseWeaselon OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

I feel like that's giving them too much credit; this is more of a flukuisition. Being in the right place at the right time when your acquisition target implodes.

WiseWeaselon Toyota Takes Aim at EVs with Ammonia Engine

Less annoying source:

https://www.motortrend.com/news/china-gac-ammonia-powered-in...

WiseWeaselon Why Tailwind CSS Won

Well obviously you should know better than to listen to what people say on Twitter, since it's dead.

WiseWeaselon Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why

My takeaway was that it might allow for “magnetic refrigeration”; two words I don’t think I’ve ever seen together so elegantly summarize the concept.

WiseWeaselon SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

Bland in a flavor complexity sense, and malty as in too sweet. I guess a better way to say it is too sweet for its sourness/bitterness.

WiseWeaselon SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

I guess Sierra Nevada was a big influence early on, and since then I’ve come to appreciate a large variety, from more hoppy offerings from the likes of Russian River, Lagunitas, Stone and recently Almanac, to lagers from Pacifico and Dos Equis, several prominent Belgian brands, and some local sours. I enjoy a wide variety, but always thought of Anchor Steam as bland, malty, and mediocre, on the same low level as Fat Tire, to name a comparable brand.

That said, I’ve only had it bottled, never on tap.

WiseWeaselon SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

A shame they weren’t able to adapt to modern beer tastes. As long as I can remember, I've thought of them as the mediocre beer I’ll begrudgingly drink only if all other options are exhausted.

WiseWeaselon Twitter now requires login to browse tweets

Tweet links should be banned on HN due to this behavior.

WiseWeaselon React is holding me hostage

You can often use route params or location hash for communicating state sideways if shared context is overkill, with the benefit of making the state bookmarkable or accessible in the history.

WiseWeaselon Cannabis is legal in most US states but federal laws block businesses from banks

Here's some coverage of the latest bipartisan failure of the senate to get this passed:

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3782514-marijuana-advocat...

WiseWeaselon CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards

Biking a given distance is significantly more energy efficient than walking thanks to the wheels maintaining your momentum and decreasing friction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport

WiseWeaselon macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance

Or its darker sister app, Xecutioner

WiseWeaselon A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire

1 bit color encoding is black and white (represented by 0 or 1). 8 bits can encode 256 colors (2^8).

WiseWeaselon Ordering CSS Declarations

I like using utility classes and single-concern components for pretty much everything, so selectors don’t have enough styles for it to matter.

WiseWeaselon The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

Tapas 4 life!

WiseWeaselon Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage

Difficulty of digging with the tools they had, inability to stabilize the structure to prevent cave-ins, lack of pumps to remove accumulating water, insufficient ventilation and filtration technology/unable to deal with poison gases, inability to light their environment without contributing to the poor air quality, difficulty accessing resources like food and clean water, lack of desire to live in a damp, dusty hole.

WiseWeaselon Chery QQ Ice Cream goes on sale in China – a modern electric car for $4,600

Since it's electric, it should be zero-emission until its batteries spontaneously combust.

WiseWeaselon JavaScript and the next decade of data programming (2020)

It also offers Array.reduce(), which can filter and map in one go, among other tasks.

WiseWeaselon Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)

By “vendoring” dependencies, I’m guessing you are talking about pulling them out of node_modules (into a js/vendor dir), and checking them into your repo, repeating the process every time you want to update. I will make an offering to Cthulhu if it’ll ensure we won't be using webpack and node 10 years from now in order to build those old snapshots without considerable effort.

WiseWeaselon Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad

Same as always, by considering available evidence, gathering testimonials, and determining the most likely explanation. The increasing abundance of recorded data in the custody of a growing number of entities likely outcompetes the ability to fabricate evidence, making objective truth more knowable than ever.

WiseWeaselon The Two Classes of Software Engineer

You’ll need to remove the space padding in those parentheses to get this PR merged.

[resolved]

WiseWeaselon Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

They’d probably only do it once. It builds character, similar to == in JS or PHP.

WiseWeaselon How to lower the price of plant-based meat

I say we start calling it phyte, since it sounds a bit better than pleat. Translates better too. Could even pronounce it like it rhymes with “meat”.

WiseWeaselon REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better

If that’s a problem, have the frontend run a separate query for the article’s comments upon expansion of the section, like the REST version would have done. You still have easier caching in the GQL version.