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Implant – Visual Studio Marketplace

Implant – Visual Studio Marketplace

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Give coding agents (Copilot Chat, Claude Code, Cursor, anything that speaks MCP โ€” or anything that can shell out) live access to everything that lives inside VS Code and third-party extensions. Explore the code with the tools the editor already has: Find References, Go-to-Definition, hover types, workspace diagnostics, git blame, symbol outlines, and any command a third-party extension registers. Modify the code through the same language server that powers the editor: structural rename, quick-fixes and refactors, organize imports, safe file create/rename/delete via WorkspaceEdit, formatter output,…
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Tuxedo No.2 | A Cocktail Companion

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Vermouth has a claim to the title of worldโ€™s oldest alcoholic beverage, but this mostly depends on how broadly we define vermouth. The earliest forms of fermented wine were crude and likely tasted bad. Infusing them with various local herbs and spices not only helped remedy the taste problem, it also packed the concoctions with vitamins, minerals, and sugars that people used as medicine. In his book Vermouth, Adam Ford outlines three different early examples of these proto-vermouths, all from the stone age. The first…
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The Ambition Project – by Bryan Caplan

The Ambition Project – by Bryan Caplan

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I was fascinated to hear about Jason Brennanโ€™s class assignments for his โ€œAmbitionโ€ class. Reprinted with his kind permission. I doubt that the average U.S. college student would actually follow through with any of these challenges, but theyโ€™d be great for a school like UATX!In my first year seminar course Ambition, in addition to their other work, students will need to complete four of the following assignments, including at least one starred project. Two of these I got from Jess Flanigan at Richmond.1. The Failure…
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shinyquagsire23/Klepton: JIT-less relinker and compatibility layer for running Quest/Android XR APKs on visionOS and macOS ยท GitHub

shinyquagsire23/Klepton: JIT-less relinker and compatibility layer for running Quest/Android XR APKs on visionOS and macOS ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Running Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro, no JIT required! klepton-ld translates Android .so libraries into loadable Apple .dylib and .framework libraries, which then link into the Klepton runtime. Klepton currently focuses on Java-thin applications only (no ART, no JVM). For graphics, GLES 3.2 is translated to a vendored ANGLE GLES 3.0 (with its Metal backend), and Vulkan is translated to MoltenVK. โ”Œโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ” โ”‚ GUEST (translated Mach-O, instruction bytes mostly unmodified) โ”‚ โ”‚ libil2cpp ยท libunity ยท libunityopus ยท libmain ยท burst ยท…
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Why do we assume everyone should be working?

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I was talking to a friend of mine and I asked this. She said โ€œof course everyone should be working, I mean, Iโ€™d like to be able to buy more stuffโ€ In that statement though there really is a non obvious implied logic. So the next question: does economics support that statement always? That if we want more stuff, and better lives, everyone should be working harder? No, only sometimes; in economics, utilizing a resource to itโ€™s fullest at all times is not a…
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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

โœจ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: We're making auto mode the default in Claude Code. Starting on August 14, new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans will run in auto mode. If you've already set a different default yourself, you may get a one-time prompt asking whether you want to switch to auto mode. If you have a pinned default, nothing changes for you. The auto mode classifier uses a small number of extra tokens per tool call, and we're no longer charging Claude Code users on Pro, Max, and…
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Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The logo of Taylor Farms Mexico is seen at the company's facilities, in Doctor Mora, Guanajuato state, Mexico, July 20, 2026. Demian Chavez | ReutersTaylor Farms said on Sunday it was recalling prepared food items containing jalapeรฑos from retailers over concerns about potential salmonella contamination, a few weeks after removing lettuce from Mexico that U.S. authorities linked to the cyclospora parasite.The California-based supplier said it had voluntarily recalled the products, including salsas and guacamole, after being notified that Coast Citrus Distributors was recalling the fresh…
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What Happened to HackerOne? ยท Curiosity With a Side of Chaos

What Happened to HackerOne? ยท Curiosity With a Side of Chaos

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Soโ€ฆwhatโ€™s going on at HackerOne lately? It might be time for a wellness check. If you are new to the bug bounty space (1-3 years), you might not have any idea what Iโ€™m talking about. But as a properly washed-up bug bounty hunter who lived through the golden era of HackerOne, I think itโ€™s time to address the elephant in the room. For some context, I started as a hacker on HackerOne in 2017. When I began working in tech, that hands-on experience was extremely…
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How we pushed CDC into Postgres โ€” and turned replication into clockwork

How we pushed CDC into Postgres โ€” and turned replication into clockwork

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Making data from transactional databases available to analytical databases is an essential part of any modern data architecture. It is also a perpetual battle against fragile tooling, high costs and complex operations. When we started building a Postgres service at Snowflake, solving this problem naturally became our number one priority. This post is a deep dive into the engineering behind data mirroring: how we reimagined Postgres replication from the ground up. Optimizing Postgres replication Postgres is an amazing operational database, but its change data capture…
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Panasonic did what Apple, Sony and Nikon couldn’t: overturn a Red Raw video patent

Panasonic did what Apple, Sony and Nikon couldn’t: overturn a Red Raw video patent

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Japanese Patent Office has declared one of Redโ€™s key Raw video patents as invalid, following a challenge by Panasonic. The court determined that many of the claims made in the patent, first filed in the US in 2008, would have been obvious to someone skilled in the subject area and familiar with existing developments. The news, first reported by Thom Hogan, put Nikonโ€™s video subsidiary in the position of trying to defend a patent that Nikon had previously argued was invalid. The patent…
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