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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate Previous: Not Raising the Gates Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) August 14 2026 The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT'S NEW section of manย hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta: In macOS 27.0, hdiutil is deprecated. Use diskutil image instead for all disk image operations. diskutil image provides subcommands for attach, create, resize, info, and chpass. ASIF (Apple Sparse Image Format) images are only supported…
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it’s server-side, not the app anthropic enrols fable 5 sessions on claude code 2.1.236+ into an experiment that shrinks the effort scale, older versions and opus 5 are left alone probably an a/b test, so not everyone will see it if “high” feels like “low” for you,” / X

it’s server-side, not the app anthropic enrols fable 5 sessions on claude code 2.1.236+ into an experiment that shrinks the effort scale, older versions and opus 5 are left alone probably an a/b test, so not everyone will see it if “high” feels like “low” for you,” / X

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: update: it's server-side, not the app anthropic enrols fable 5 sessions on claude code 2.1.236+ into an experiment that shrinks the effort scale, older versions and opus 5 are left alone probably an a/b test, so not everyone will see it if "high" feels like "low" for you, you're in the test group holy fuck anthropic, you guys are unbearable sometimesif fable felt dumber this week, it's not you โ—โ—โ— since 2.1.237 the model reads "high" effort as 10 out of 100, the exact number…
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Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A Belgian car salesman has become a prince at the age of 26 after being acknowledged as the son of the kingโ€™s brother, Prince Laurent. Clรฉment Vandenkerckhoveโ€™s mother, a Belgian singer who had a relationship with Prince Laurent in the 1990s, only told him who his father was when he turned 16 a decade ago. It emerged this week that he was legally recognized as the son and heir of the 63-year-old younger brother of King Philippe, at a low-key town hall ceremony about…
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A Friendly Introduction to Racket โ€“ geometridae

A Friendly Introduction to Racket โ€“ geometridae

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 11 Aug, 2026 "Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it." โ€” Eric S. Raymond Welcome. Today you'll learn a language from one of programming's oldest and most unusual families. A language where code is data, where parentheses are pure structure, and where programs can write programs. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have written your own syntax. A bit of historyLisp was born in 1958, invented by John McCarthy at MIT. For context:…
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โ€˜Digging the grave of my professionโ€™: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs | Technology

โ€˜Digging the grave of my professionโ€™: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs | Technology

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hollywood creatives are taking gig work to train AI models to replicate their skills in a bid to offset tightening earnings in a trend one compared to being โ€œhanded a shovel and asked to dig the grave of my professionโ€.Experienced and award-winning writers, directors and producers are being paid from $12 to $200 an hour to teach AI models the intricacies of their jobs, from writing a screenplay to devising a shooting schedule.With feelings ranging from fatalism to guilt, the creatives have signed up…
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The New MCP Roadmap | Model Context Protocol Blog

The New MCP Roadmap | Model Context Protocol Blog

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Today weโ€™re excited to publish an updated roadmap for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering the next specification release and beyond.The roadmap sets the direction for protocol work over the coming months. It was developed by the Core Maintainers together with our community of maintainers and Working Groups.Explore the roadmap โ†’Priority areas#The roadmap is organized into five priority areas. Several of them pick up work that the previous roadmap listed as on the horizon, including server-initiated events, result type improvements, and agent identity, which have…
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Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Metaโ€™s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial | Meta

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Metaโ€™s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial | Meta

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Metaโ€™s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the worldโ€™s largest social media company.The owner of Facebook and Instagram โ€œhooksโ€ in users, โ€œholdsโ€ them on its platforms for as long as possible, โ€œharvestsโ€ their data and then โ€œhidesโ€ the truth from the public, she argued.โ€œMetaโ€™s business model worked especially well for kids,โ€ said Megan Oโ€™Neill, a lawyer for the state of California.Her accusation opened the blockbuster trial…
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Munder Difflin โ€” Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Munder Difflin โ€” Agent harness to run an office of your clones

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Does my code ever leave my laptop? No. Your node runs locally by default โ€” code, keys, and personal context stay on your machine. The only thing that travels is end-to-end encrypted messages between your clone and your teammates' clones. On the Cloud + Network plan, clones and the org knowledge base run in dedicated sandbox VMs inside your own controlled environment โ€” never on shared infrastructure. What actually powers my clone? The agent CLI you already use โ€” Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Kimi…
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations

Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations

๐Ÿš€ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: โ€œOver the past 18 months, Canadaโ€™s new government has focused on building our strength at home, diversifying our partnerships abroad, and striking a fair deal with the United States.Our objectives in our trade negotiations have been to:Preserve tariff-free access to the U.S. for the vast majority of Canadian business;Provide greater stability to our trade relationship;Significantly reduce U.S. tariffs on our key strategic industries, so that Canadian businesses in these sectors would have the best access of any in the world;Protect our small and medium-sized…
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apps and an SDK for Kobo e-readers

apps and an SDK for Kobo e-readers

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The SDK An app is one Rust file. Implement KoboApp, describe screens declaratively, and the runtime handles layout, e-ink refresh planning, Back navigation and lifecycle. Apps don't open device resources; they ask. Network, storage, audio, frontlight and Wi-Fi are capability-gated, and a refusal comes back as a value the app can handle. E-ink UIText, tiles, dialogs, keyboards, pagination, partial refresh planning SimulatorsBrowser and runtime simulators with layout diagnostics Async workHTTPS, ranged downloads, cancellable tasks, scheduled wakes StateAtomic per-app keyed storage ShippingSigned static ARMv7 binaries, published…
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