Ask HN: What does HN think of the new 14“ MacBook Pro?Apple has shown us the Monterey-powered M1 pro and max laptops, and they are even faster. The keyboards seem to be fixed.But is it what we want?1. S3 standby/sleep support required2. low weight for luggability, 2.5lb maximum3. survives table-to-floor falls4. always-on-AC battery deaths unacceptible5. survives being in a bag, accidental activation6. Linux support for all hardware7. trackpads on par with Apple, at least8. keyboards with clear actuation, spill resistance and backlighting9. kill switches or modular hardware for camera and mic10. bright matte screens, with vertical space11. memory and I/O performance approaching Apple's M1 SoC12. HDMI, USB-A, 3.5mm, 10gbE, SD, USB-C periferals are what people own, support that13. trackpoints are great for text-editing14. quiet operation, no blinken-lights15. prefer no webcam over shitty webcam, no BT/WiFi over shitty BT/WiFi16. USB-C charging, Thunderbolt 4 both sides, GPU that can be turned on and offThis list is compiled from an Ask HN tw
MacBook Pro 13“ (2018, non-touchbar) just died while upgradingSo, my MBP 13" just died while upgrading from Big Sur 11.1 to 11.2. It was working great with 11.1. I tried everything to revive it. Nothing. Black screen of death. WTF, Apple!? Fix your sh*t. You only have to optimize the drivers for a few models, how is this even possible? Do they even TEST the damn thing on all the so-called "supported devices" before release? Super lame. "It just works"... until it's bricked for no reason.
Ask HN: MacBook Pro 16-inch, temporarily dead pixels?I got my MBP 16 last night. In general it's great, but twice now in only a few hours of use I've noticed some distressing graphical artifacts (for something this expensive).Each time it's been a tiny rectangle of a handful of pixels at a random place on the screen that just turn some random color (bright purple the first time, bright green the second time). The first time was on Firefox and the second was on Apple Music, so it's not specific to the app. As soon as I scroll or otherwise cause the screen to update, they go away.My guess is it's a GPU thing, not a screen thing. Has anyone else seen this? And do you think I should be worried? Could it represent a hardware defect in the GPU, or just a software problem (driver perhaps?) that could get patched out later if it becomes significant/widely-noticed?
IMAGEShow HN: I shrank DeepSeek V4 Flash to 57GB and it wrote a compiler on my MacI built a specialized package of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (originally 284B total parameters, 13B active), preserving reasoning, tool calling and coding capabilities:https://huggingface.co/steadfastgaze/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-...I let it write a minimal C compiler targeting ARM64, then test the result with Fibonacci and FizzBuzz programs, and it succeeded in less than 1 hour, with the full recording at:https://youtu.be/XiwSilmV8B0You can run it on Silicon Macs with my engine https://github.com/steadfastgaze/MoEspresso, while one of the core libraries developed to obtain this result is available at https://github.com/steadfastgaze/mlx-iqk.The above recording was on a 128GB memory MacBook M3 Max, but you can also run it on 32GB MacBooks with a very usable context (128K tokens) and projected 5 tok/s. I did try it on a fanless 16GB memory MacBook Air M1 (1.39 tok/s), but unfortunately the available context was very small.How: - First, efficient quantisation: mlx-iqk takes advantage of IQ_K te
IMAGEA RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shoppingThe MacBook Neo is an easy recommendation. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that computer prices are out of whack due to the ongoing RAM and storage crunch, making some a little pricier than they used to be and others wildly more expensive.
The good news? Despite that, there ...
IMAGEShow HN: FEDERaiDE, a TUI harness with P2P multi-agent routing and built in IDEHi!Federaide is a general purpose multi-agent harness that runs in your terminal. It is meant for recreational programming and automating your scripts. The agents are just named instances of language models which have their own memories, backstories et cetera, and can coordinate with each other as they require. It has its own IDE (complete with interactive structure parsing and jump to def). I am building Federaide as a solo project.Why do I build this? Some reasons:- I reached out to some people to try my other IDE, many of them did not have suitable computers (or at all).- During this time I observed almost every normal person has interacted with AI via their phones (usually the Gemini/ChatGPT app).- I felt I could bring the joy of coding to a lot more people if I could make an AI assisted IDE run on Android.- When I go to sleep I like to try out code ideas. Can't take my macbook to bed, have cats. Do have a spare Android, thought it would be nice to have a coding platform I could us
IMAGEShow HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreenHave you ever wished you could see the time while coding or watching videos in fullscreen or when your menu bar is hidden? Corner Time is a minimalist macOS app designed for those who value a clean desktop but still want the clock to be always visible.Unlike other widgets or solutions, Corner Time sits unobtrusively in the corner of your screen as if it were a native part of macOS—even when you’re in fullscreen mode or using auto-hide for your menu bar. The app is highly customizable: you can choose your preferred date format, adjust the style, match your system language, and use it seamlessly across all your monitors.My personal use case is using it on my MacBook with TopNotch, along with always auto-hiding the menu bar and dock, to create a maximized, distraction-free workspace.Corner Time has quickly become a favorite among digital minimalists and power users. Many users describe it as a long-awaited solution, praising its simple but thoughtful design.Feedback and suggestions are we
GLM-5.3-Flash at 3.3 tok/sA few months ago, I created the WARP engine (formerly WASTE) to run Kimi K3, the complete 2.78-trillion-parameter model, on macOS. GLM-5.3-Flash shares many architectural similarities with Kimi K3, so I added support for it as well. It requires as little as 5.14 GB of RAM to run, and on a 64 GB MacBook Pro M5 Pro it reaches about 3.32 tok/s, or 3.86 tok/s on longer runs.More memory means a larger expert cache, while higher storage and memory bandwidth can further improve performance.The project is completely open-source and free to use: https://github.com/sqliteai/warp
Apple’s new Mac Mini has fresh M6 and M5 Pro chip offerings — and higher pricesApple is announcing a new generation of the Mac Mini, once again offering two models: one with a new M6 chip and a higher-end model with the M5 Pro found in this year's MacBook Pro. The new Minis have the same tiny design and footprint as the 2024 M4 / M4 Pro models, but with […]
Drugie życie urządzeń Apple to realne ograniczenie elektrośmieciKażdy iPhone czy MacBook, który trafia do drugiego obiegu zamiast do szuflady lub kosza, to nie symboliczny gest, a konkretna, wymierna korzyść dla środowiska. Sprawdzamy, ile realnie ważą elektrośmie ...
Best computer for video editing according to top creatorsThis video editing computer comparison explores the machines and software used by established creators across different workflows. The setups include M1 Max MacBook Pro models, custom PCs, iMacs, Mac ...
Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screensCertain logos started standing out to me on LinkedIn as brighter/whiter than everything else around them.I dug in and found out this is accomplished by adding a gain-map to an existing JPEG, visible only on HDR screens like a newer MacBook Pro. LinkedIn is the only social network I've found that isn't stripping them out, but of course you serve them up on your own site.I worked with Claude Code to turn it into a little browser-based utility (no registration) and hope you find it useful!
Show HN: ClearVoice TTS, SOTA voice cloning model running offline, in an iOS appThis is the first app I am aware of that can run a voice model of this quality on iPhone or iPad. It uses 6GB of RAM at peak, so most modern Macs, and some iPhone and iPad models should work (I’ve tested on a 17 pro). The model used is OmniVoice, which is known mostly for its ability to generate quality tts in hundreds of languages.This probably isn’t the fastest implementation of OmniVoice on a Mac, but it’s got to be the easiest to run on macOS, and, as far as I know, the only existing implementation on iOS.Demo of it running on an M3 MacBook Air: https://x.com/RoryClear/status/2090414148030972300
Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIPI have been using omarchy on my tower since nearly a year now, shortly after it was released first. I really love the experience I am having with it but I still use my macbook for daly work, so I wanted to recreate a similar experience on it. Thats why I created omacosy, a setup for tiling windows, custom menu bar, some themes from omarchy, focus follows mouse, focus rings around windwos, some mac flavors with trackpad events and a custom mission control overview for your workspaces.I used AeroSpace over yabai for the tiling window manager because I didnt wanted to compromise on SIP which is a mac security feature. It is supposed to be keyboard first like omarchy to move windows organize workspaces etc The setup runs around 157mb of ram and consists of AeroSpace, Karabiner (for the super key), and five small self build swift binaries.I am running it daily on my M1 max macbook, currently on macOS26. I havent tested it much on other macbooks or macOS versions. The install script creates
Ask HN: Why am I getting a different HN home page on my phone?Right now on my phone, the entire home page is different than on my MacBook on the same network.For example item 14 is about Bluesky but on my MacBook it’s about linoleic acid.Item 1 on my phone is “using the railway network” while on MacBook it’s “foundational refinement proofs”Why is it so wildly different on the same network? It’s a completely different list of articles.
Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual GroundingI've always felt that AI tutoring as we see it now is going in the wrong direction. I made Knowable as a way to see if it's possible to have a real AI tutor.Because of hardware limitations it can only be used on Macbooks 2023+.Let me know your thoughts!