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meowtimemania··on Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com
I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders. This is a big bummer to me, in future I'll find an alternative to amazon OR find an alternative to muse.

No matter what I'll continue to use some AI agent and some shopping provider.

meowtimemania··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Another scary thing is with AI it's easy to let complexity get out of hand to the point where a human manually writing code is basically impossible. Even though AI might seem capable of handling the complexity, you'll start noticing all these weird bugs pop up all over your codebase.
meowtimemania··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
I asked it to by me concert tickets, it suggested ticket master for 90$ each, I asked it to find cheaper tickets and found something else 70$ each — I found it really convenient.

I asked it to check once a day for the next week and notify me of any price changes

meowtimemania··on Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
Wish there were more performance related benchmarks that compare this to cloudflare durable objects.
meowtimemania··on How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)
IIRC there was a period of time where you could get suspended for trivial things like mentioning twitter
meowtimemania··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
For me it depends on the task. For some tasks (maybe things that don't have good existing examples in my codebase?)

I'll spend 3x the time repeatedly asking claude to do something for me

meowtimemania··on Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability
There needs to be a way to purchase "X" more credits then it works IMO
meowtimemania··on Cursor CLI
My company has a huge codebase, for me cursor would freeze up / not find relevant files. Claude code seems able to find the right files by itself.

I seem to always have better outcomes with Claude code.

meowtimemania··on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
I'm guessing the type of immigration each country receives is very different.

e.g. some examples from this list (% immigrant population): - Qatar (76%) - Australia (30%) - Canada (23%) - Belgium (20%) - USA (15.2%) - Denmark (14.2%)

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

meowtimemania··on Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language (2023)
How do you handle when fields are added or removed? Do you have to rerecord all the affected tests?
meowtimemania··on H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber
Because it’s hard to cover a sphere in rectangles and have no rectangle overlap.

It’s the same reason soccer balls aren’t covered in squares/rectangles but rather hexagons.

meowtimemania··on H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber
If you used curves it'd get complicated deciding where one area starts and the other ends. With hexagons it's easier to divide the world such that (mostly) no hexagon overlaps.

The purpose is to be able to predictably map any coordinate to its associated hexagon.

In database applications this makes it easier to query all data associated with a hexagonal area.

meowtimemania··on React 19
Bar is 2.
meowtimemania··on Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home
Would this attract more migrants? (e.g. I could work for a year for 10k, or I could go to Sweden and get 34k)

They've probably thought through all the ways to exploit this, just curious.

meowtimemania··on Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions
Unlike cars, trains and subways can't get you door to door (especially in suburban areas)
meowtimemania··on Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS
I love htmx for internal dashboards. I find htmx difficult to use for user facing applications because it's difficult to get everyone on board with the constraints of htmx (no optimistic uis, simple ui/ux). When building complicated frontends with lots of popovers, modals, optimistic state, I like react.
meowtimemania··on 1M Users
How often do you login? What makes it sticky for you?
meowtimemania··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
It's also becoming increasingly difficult to get a remote job with a bay area salary.
meowtimemania··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
No worries! I was curious how it worked on node. Thanks!
meowtimemania··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
it must install compiled and uncompiled versions? Otherwise node (without the above flag) would throw errors when it encounters types in node_modules
meowtimemania··on Open source AI is the path forward
Why would openai/anthropic's approach be more safe? Are people able to remove all the guard rails on the llama models?
meowtimemania··on Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
Sounds spam detection
meowtimemania··on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
Kinda sounds like abstraction hell. What did you gain by wrapping all external libraries in interfaces?
meowtimemania··on Notes on Tajikistan
I think by "kept in check" they mean good separation of church and state. Some islamic countries don't have good separation of church and state.
meowtimemania··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
It's not that it's "hard" as much as it's annoying. When every react component has its own fragment, writing so many graphql fragments gets annoying. Going to graphiql for each fragment is annoying. Figuring out what fragments need to be spread on a query can be annoying. It's just more stuff that you have to keep in your head.

With that said I still like using relay on my random react-native side projects.

meowtimemania··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
i agree with this. Writing queries is the most annoying part of graphql
meowtimemania··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Maybe the NBA is a franchise and each team a franchisee?
meowtimemania··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Aren’t those non enforceable now?
meowtimemania··on Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
Often the drum pattern that best fits into a song is simple/boring. Maybe stereotypically, it's hard for the drummer to resist "overdoing" the drums.

I think there's a metaphor that can be applied to software engineers.

meowtimemania··on Gems of Tailwind CSS
article was nice to skim. I learned a few new things
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