Hacker News with Generative AI: Mac

The tools I love are made by awful people (ankursethi.com)
Every few years, I install Linux on my computer, use it for a few weeks, give up, and go crawling back to my Mac.

Linux, Mac, Operating Systems

81 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 171 comments

Apple says all Mac minis with Intel are now 'vintage' or 'obsolete' (9to5mac.com)
Today Apple updated its list of vintage and obsolete products, and the latest additions include the end of an era for the Intel Mac mini.

Apple, Mac, Hardware, Vintage Products, Obsolete Products

7 points by voxadam 11 days ago | 3 comments

I bought a Mac (loganius.org)
Yep. I regret to inform you all that, as of January 2025, I am a Mac user: I bought a Mac. I have betrayed the penguin.

Mac, Personal Computing, Operating Systems

237 points by todsacerdoti 12 days ago | 135 comments

Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar (badgeify.app)
Add app icons and notifications to your Mac menu bar for easy notification tracking and quick app launching.

Mac, Menu Bar, Productivity, Software, Notifications

118 points by ahonn 18 days ago | 53 comments

Investigating MacPaint's Source Code (ztoz.blog)
MacPaint is a monochromatic raster image painting program that introduced many people to mouse-driven controls, tool palettes, and copy and paste integration with other applications.

Software, History, Programming, Mac, Graphics

87 points by zdw 21 days ago | 16 comments

I Want a Better Mac, So I'm Cheering for a Better Linux (reviews.ofb.biz)
My recent column on Apple’s declining software quality hit a nerve. So why do any of us put up with software that grows increasingly buggy? One word: hardware.

Mac, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

17 points by trbutler 23 days ago | 8 comments

Lumon Terminal Pro (apple.com)
Spoilers ahead! See how the Apple Original series Severance was edited on Mac.

Mac, Apple, Editing, TV Shows, Video Editing

7 points by slavomirvojacek 29 days ago | 0 comments

Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator (michelf.ca)
From the perspective of a color blind person, some colors are impossible to distinguish. Sim Daltonism lets you visualize colors as they are perceived with various types of color blindness. Use the camera on your iOS device, or use the Mac app to filter a region of the screen.

Accessibility, Color Blindness, Software, iOS, Mac

40 points by robin_reala 29 days ago | 20 comments

Lumon Terminal Pro (apple.com)
Spoilers ahead! See how the Apple Original series Severance was edited on Mac.

Editing, Apple, TV Shows, Mac

131 points by jervant 31 days ago | 27 comments

Mac Studio M3 Ultra can run Deepseek R1 671B in memory using <200W (techradar.com)

Mac, Computers, Deep Learning, Hardware, Power Consumption

7 points by mizzao 34 days ago | 1 comments

Mac is detecting Docker as a malware and keeping it from starting (github.com/docker)
Malware Blocked. “com.docker.socket” was not opened because it contains malware. this action did not harm your Mac.

Mac, Docker, Security, Malware

18 points by mfru 37 days ago | 3 comments

New MacBook Air Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight (macrumors.com)
In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple has quietly corrected a 26-year-old design inconsistency on its keyboards.

Apple, Mac, Design, Keyboard, Technology

16 points by ksec 49 days ago | 16 comments

Stop typing your sudo password, use Touch ID instead (9to5mac.com)
One of the greatest benefits of Touch ID on Mac is rarely having to type your password when making purchases, signing into apps, and, of course, unlocking the device.

Security, Mac, Touch ID

4 points by nateb2022 49 days ago | 0 comments

Was Snow Leopard 10.6 the greatest OS X release? (2022) (greggant.com)
If you were to ask a group of long-time Mac users, what's the best Operating System Apple has ever released? It'd likely be nearly unanimous.

Operating Systems, Apple, Mac, Nostalgia, History

10 points by oumua_don17 50 days ago | 3 comments

Apple unveils new Mac Studio (apple.com)
Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip.

Apple, Mac, Hardware, New Releases, Computers

348 points by ksec 52 days ago | 288 comments

Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives (downtowndougbrown.com)
As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s.

Technology, Hardware, History, Mac

287 points by zdw 54 days ago | 208 comments

Martin Pilkington, Stalwart of the Mac and Apple Dev Community, Dies from Cancer (daringfireball.net)
Sad news, posted to his Mastodon account:

Mac, Apple Development, Obituaries

14 points by tosh 69 days ago | 1 comments

I cannot believe there's no way to use a 27" 2015 iMac as a second display (macrumors.com)
It just seems totally INSANE that there's no way to use an iMac 27" 2015 as a display without hardware hacks. In 2025. I don't need high FPS or anything. I mean, the iMac and the MacBook are on the same network, surely there is some solution which works over the local network.

Mac, Display Technology, Hardware, Networking

10 points by tosh 76 days ago | 2 comments

Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp (macintoshrepository.org)
Although LISP (the name comes from LISt Processing) has been around since the late 1950s, it has never been as popular as newcomers like C and Pascal.

Programming Languages, History, Mac

111 points by tosh 84 days ago | 33 comments

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.

Mac, Apple Silicon, Operating Systems, macOS

14 points by usaphp 85 days ago | 3 comments

Little Snitch feature nobody knows about (lapcatsoftware.com)
Little Snitch by Objective Development is the first app that I install on a new Mac.

Mac, Security, Privacy, Software

176 points by ingve 92 days ago | 51 comments

Mac Mini was introduced 20y ago (wikipedia.org)
As part of the Mac transition to Apple silicon, Apple announced a new Mac Mini with the Apple M1 chip on November 10, 2020.

Mac, Apple, Hardware, Silicon, History

4 points by tosh 93 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Mac, Boot Process, Apple Silicon

5 points by lapcat 97 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Virtualization, Apple Silicon, Operating Systems, Mac, Windows

11 points by ksec 98 days ago | 4 comments

Mac Mini M4 Pro Display Resolutions (apple.com)
I have a MacBook Pro M1, and a 5k LG monitor with 5120 x 2160 res. When I use it I can use the "default" setting which is 3840 x 1620 and it is perfect for me.

Mac, Monitors, Display Resolutions, Apple

31 points by croes 116 days ago | 8 comments

BBEdit for Log Analysis (scottwillsey.com)
Long-time Mac users will undoubtedly have heard of BBEdit. BBEdit is the favorite Mac text editor of many old Mac users1 for various types of writing, including programming, notes, articles, and basically any type of writing Mac nerds can do.

Text Editors, Mac, Programming

7 points by DavideNL 127 days ago | 0 comments

KeePassium 2.0 Released (keepassium.com)
KeePassium 2.0 comes with an official Mac app, passkey support and modern AutoFill improvements.

Software, New Releases, Security, Mac

8 points by miles 129 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Performance, Multithreading, Mac, Apple Silicon

5 points by ingve 137 days ago | 0 comments

Accelerated Jax on Mac (apple.com)
JAX uses the new Metal plug-in to provide Metal acceleration on Mac platforms.

Accelerated Computing, Machine Learning, Mac, Metal

17 points by iNic 150 days ago | 3 comments

The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model (sixcolors.com)
The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model

App Stores, Apple, Operating Systems, Mac

10 points by mpweiher 155 days ago | 1 comments