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Thirty years ago, Apple quietly buried Copland, its ambitious but doomed attempt to drag the Mac into the modern era with protected memory and preemptive multitasking. Now, thanks to a new browser-based emulator, anyone can boot the final developer build and see exactly how close — and how far — Apple got before pulling the plug.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a new research paper is raising a subtle but important question about how large language models talk about themselves. By adjusting chat templates, researchers found they could meaningfully shift the self-referential voice of a model — the way it frames its own nature and limitations. It sounds academic, but it touches something real about how much of an AI's personality is baked in versus designed.
And on the subject of AI in everyday work, Hacker News is buzzing with engineers asking each other a surprisingly honest question: what does your actual AI workflow look like? The thread reveals a field still figuring itself out, with practitioners mixing off-the-shelf tools, custom scripts, and a fair amount of trial and error to find what genuinely helps versus what just feels productive.
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