Hacker News with Generative AI: MacOS

James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock (daringfireball.net)
James Thomson on the Origins of the MacOS Dock
Waste Makes Haste? (anukari.com)
I've been really digging into MacOS optimizations over the last few days. Being ALU-bound is quite a pain in the butt, because unlike being memory-bound, there are a lot fewer big changes I can make to speed things up. Mostly I've been working on instruction-level optimizations, none of which have had a big impact. I've gotten to where I don't see anything else that is really worth optimizing at this level.
Show HN: AirPrint Bridge: Enable AirPrint for Non-AirPrint Printers on macOS (github.com/sapireli)
AirPrint Bridge: Seamlessly Enable AirPrint for Non-AirPrint Printers on macOS
Show HN: Clean Your Mac with a Script (github.com/hkdobrev)
Clean your macOS with a script, not an expensive app
MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates (mullvad.net)
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.
Disable Sequoia's monthly screen recording permission prompt (tinyapps.org)
The widely-reported "foo is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio" prompt in Sequoia (which Apple has moved from daily to weekly to now monthly) can be disabled by quitting the app, setting the system date far into the future, opening and using the affected app to trigger the nag, clicking "Allow For One Month", then restoring the correct date.
Claude for Mac: The unofficial desktop app for Anthropic Claude (github.com/tullytim)
The Origins of DS_store (2006) (arno.org)
Fixing QuickLook (foon.uk)
Ask HN: Who Went Mac –> Linux? (ycombinator.com)
Show HN: Brewer X, a native macOS client for Homebrew (panini.house)