Hacker News with Generative AI: Apple Silicon

What Is the Future of (Asahi) Linux on Apple Silicon? (ycombinator.com)
Recently, Marcan stepped down from Asahi Linux. What are current plans for the project? Are there any alternatives to run Linux on Apple Silicon? I tried to read more on Marcan's Mastodon account, but it looks like it's closed/blocked
Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops (github.com/chadmed)
Show HN: Computer – Build Your Manus AI Agent with an OSS macOS Sandbox (github.com/trycua)
Create and run high-performance macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon, with built-in support for AI agents.
Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple Silicon (eclecticlight.co)
Making a CPU do more work requires more than increasing its frequency, it needs removal of obstacles that can prevent it from making best use of those cycles. Among the most important of those is memory access. High-speed local caches, L1 and L2, can be a great help, but in the worst case fetching data from memory can still take hundreds of CPU core cycles, and that memory latency may then delay a running process.
Linux userspace audio configuration for Apple Silicon Macs (github.com/AsahiLinux)
Linux userspace audio configuration for Apple Silicon Macs.
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up for the Linux Kernel (phoronix.com)
This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel.
Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon (github.com/trycua)
lume is a lightweight Command Line Interface and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) with near-native performance on Apple Silicon, using Apple's Virtualization.Framework.
Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power (apple.com)
A Mac laptop with Apple silicon automatically turns on and starts up when you open its lid or connect it to power. With macOS Sequoia 15 or later, you can change this behavior without affecting your ability to use your keyboard or trackpad to turn on your Mac.
Last Week on My Mac: A boot mystery solved? (eclecticlight.co)
When Apple silicon Macs were first released, they brought a new secure boot process with a huge advantage over that of T2 Intel Macs: it was possible to boot them from an external disk without affecting their security.
Parallels can run x86 versions of Windows or Linux on Apple Silicon (arstechnica.com)
Virtualization software like Parallels and VMware Fusion give Mac owners the ability to run Windows and Linux on top of macOS, but for Apple Silicon Macs, that support was limited to the Arm-based versions of those operating systems.
Running DeepSeek V3 671B on M4 Mac Mini Cluster (exolabs.net)
We just got the biggest open-source model running on Apple Silicon.
Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is now available (fedoramagazine.org)
We are happy to announce the general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 41. This release brings the newly released Fedora Linux 41 to Apple Silicon Macs.
Tune for Performance: do more threads run faster? (eclecticlight.co)
One of the most distinctive features about modern Macs is that they have multiple cores, in Apple silicon models a minimum of eight.
macOS Build Farm for Apache NuttX RTOS (Apple Silicon) (lupyuen.github.io)
Folks on macOS: Compiling Apache NuttX RTOS used to be so tiresome. Not any more! run-build-macos.sh
M4 chips: Matrix processing and Power Modes (eclecticlight.co)
For much of the last four years, CPU and GPU core performance have been of primary importance to those using Apple silicon Macs.
Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon (apple.com)
Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio] (softwareengineeringdaily.com)
Asahi Linux is a project that aims to port Linux to Apple Silicon chips, which use a custom ARM-based architecture.
Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices (github.com/actuallymentor)
This tool makes it possible to keep a chronically plugged in Apple Silicon Macbook at 80% battery, since that will prolong the longevity of the battery. It is free and open-source and will remain that way.
Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon (nickb.website)
In this blog post, I explore how I achieved virtualizing iOS on Apple silicon Macs, exploring many internals along the way.
Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models (business-standard.com)
Securing virtual machines on Apple Silicon (eclecticlight.co)
An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs (github.com/below)
Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month (rosenzweig.io)
Possible firmware issues for Apple Silicon OpenBSD/ARM64 users (undeadly.org)
Linus Torvalds Now Favors Ampere Arm Chip over Apple Silicon MacBook (tomshardware.com)
Careful with Pair-of-Registers Instructions on Apple Silicon (lemire.me)