Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?

72 points by ferguess_k 10 months ago | 114 comments

Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?

35 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 46 comments

Reasonable GPUs

27 points by frognumber 2 years ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: Anyone Using MacBook Air M2 24GB for Developement?

16 points by gls2ro 3 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

218 points by urnicus 11 months ago | 223 comments

Ask HN: How do you sync ongoing browser work between desktop and laptop?

27 points by wtcactus 2 years ago | 38 comments

Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales(macrumors.com)

360 points by tosh 3 years ago | 800 comments

MacRumors article reporting that Apple halted M2 chip production in early 2023 amid a slump in global MacBook demand, citing a Korean report.

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

375 points by lemonlime227 10 months ago | 379 comments

Ask HN post asking for tips on using AI tools like Claude Code to better migrate a jQuery and Django project to idiomatic SvelteKit.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded(twitter.com)

967 points by tosh 2 months ago | 702 comments

A post by Daniel Lemire on X discussing Xiaomi's Xring O3 CPU, its large cache, ARM C1-Ultra cores with SME2/SVE2, and performance compared to Apple chips.

Hackintosh is almost dead(aplus.rs)

482 points by ingve 2 years ago | 473 comments

Blog post by Aleksandar Vacić arguing that Hackintosh, running macOS on non-Apple hardware, is nearly dead, reflecting on his builds since 2020.

Ask HN: Why a Great Product Won't Succeed Without a Community

3 points by gonzar79 1 day ago | 0 comments

An Ask HN post venting that great products fail without a community, arguing founders should build an audience before launching.

Why is my CPU usage always 100%?(downtowndougbrown.com)

505 points by pncnmnp 1 year ago | 137 comments

Part 9 of a blog series on upgrading the Chumby 8's Linux kernel from 2.6.28 to 6.x, investigating why top always reports 100% CPU usage.