197 stories tagged macos, newest first.
11 points by yazeedaloyoun | 1 comments
Landing page for proc, a cross-platform CLI tool for finding, inspecting, and killing processes by port, PID, name, or path, with JSON output for coding agents.
10 points by clash | 15 comments
GitHub repository for caffeinate+, a small C command-line utility for macOS that keeps a MacBook awake after the lid is closed.
210 points by dsmurrell | 89 comments
GitHub repository for OnKey, a free open-source Mac singing trainer that learns songs played in Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube and scores your pitch.
8 points by ehurynovich | 0 comments
Landing page for ego lite, a free macOS browser that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex run parallel browser automation in isolated Spaces.
61 points by civilchaos | 49 comments
A blog post by Nicolas Mattia explaining how to set up SSH keys on macOS that are protected by Touch ID.
449 points by riffraff | 275 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen noting Apple removed default icons from every menu item in macOS Golden Gate and updated its Human Interface Guidelines against the practice.
307 points by flocked | 164 comments
GitHub repository for Mac.apk, an AGPL-3.0 open-source project that runs Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs.
7 points by bobbycoleman-de | 1 comments
GitHub repository for OmniPTY, an MIT-licensed GPU-rendered terminal emulator in Rust for macOS and Linux with splits, workspaces, a file tree and a prompt.
73 points by GavinAnderegg | 16 comments
Blog post investigating the mysterious /pkg/env/global/bin PATH entry added in macOS 27.0, with background on path_helper and /etc/paths.
271 points by Audiophilip | 303 comments
Apple Developer Forums thread reporting that macOS 15.8.2 RC breaks NSOpenGLView/NSOpenGLContext setView, leaving OpenGL windows with no drawable and rendering blank.
156 points by AIorNot | 72 comments
GitHub issue reporting that the OpenAI Codex Desktop app continuously writes Crashpad pending dump files, growing disk usage by over 5GB per day.
12 points by cloaky233 | 14 comments
GitHub repository for siltop, a Rust terminal system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs showing power, GPU, per-core clocks and temperatures without sudo.
220 points by chanana | 59 comments
GitHub repository for Sill, a free open-source app that streams any Mac window to an iPhone or iPad with touch, Apple Pencil, trackpad and keyboard input, without servers.
40 points by zderror | 19 comments
GitHub repository for GridSnap, an MIT-licensed open-source Swift menubar app for macOS that snaps windows to a grid, similar to Divvy.
103 points by jervant | 66 comments
A Mastodon post by Mario Guzmán showing a screenshot of an advertisement appearing in Apple Keynote's inspector sidebar.
102 points by niztk | 55 comments
Landing page for Pulse Local, a free Mac budgeting app that answers spending questions using small AI models running entirely on the user's machine.
404 points by amrrs | 86 comments
Landing page for Embedding Gemma Transcribe, a free macOS app that adapts Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 into an on-device speech-to-text model.
60 points by soheilpro | 36 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post compiling screenshots of the macOS Dock across versions from Mac OS X 10 to macOS 27, tracing app icon design history.
17 points by cobychapple | 13 comments
Landing page for Crest, an open-source Arc-inspired web browser for Mac, iPad, and iPhone with spaces, sidebar, Peek, and Split View.
105 points by SaarthRanka | 19 comments
GitHub repository for Atticus, an open-source hold-to-talk macOS voice assistant that handles simple tasks locally and routes complex ones to Claude via claude -p.
111 points by TedHaley | 38 comments
Landing page for Pensieve, a Mac app that locally indexes files, repos and agent sessions so AI agents get relevant context with fewer tool calls.
183 points by kartik017 | 105 comments
Landing page for BetterWispr, a free, open-source macOS dictation app that cleans up speech into text locally, with per-app writing styles.
259 points by john_alan | 221 comments
The Open Group's official Open Brand register listing UNIX certified products, which reportedly no longer includes Apple macOS.
11 points by shmilia | 7 comments
Blog post by Ilia Parunashvili introducing Nagare, a simple to-do app for iPhone and Mac that can also be used by AI agents.
387 points by franze | 170 comments
GitHub repository for a macOS CLI tool and skill that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex draw click-through arrows, boxes and text on screen.
321 points by sohkamyung | 260 comments
A deep-dive blog post on the Unsung software craft blog comparing keyboard layouts, keys, and shortcut conventions between Windows PCs and Macs.
81 points by cachebag | 66 comments
GitHub repository for zerobrew, an open-source Homebrew alternative claiming up to 100x faster package installs.
8 points by busymom0 | 0 comments
A Tell HN post complaining that macOS 27 keeps about 30 GB of Apple Intelligence models on disk even when Siri/AI is disabled, with no way to remove them.
52 points by handfuloflight | 66 comments
Landing page for Berth, an open-source macOS app that runs coding agents like Claude Code and Codex on your own dev boxes so they keep working when your laptop sleeps.
7 points by mmilanovic4 | 0 comments
Blog post explaining Fitts's law and why placing the menu bar at the screen's top edge makes it faster to target.
716 points by privacyisntdead | 477 comments
GitHub repository for RemoveMacAI, an MIT-licensed Swift CLI that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and reclaims its disk space, reversibly.
6 points by cududa | 1 comments
Medium post describing passive FTP and other network and UI override settings found enabled on a new MacBook after an Apple Store DFU firmware wipe.
71 points by delphidolphin | 11 comments
GitHub repository for Nightwatch, an MIT-licensed macOS menu-bar app that notifies you when tonight's sky will be clear enough for telescope imaging.
149 points by allenleee | 67 comments
GitHub repository for SCM, an MIT-licensed macOS tool that provides AI-powered search across photos and every frame of videos in any folder.
68 points by arunbhatia | 41 comments
Landing page for Offrun, a free Mac app for running and monitoring multiple AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex in one workspace.
278 points by notfirstpost | 193 comments
Apple Developer news post announcing changes to Full Disk Access in macOS, citing developers misusing it in ways that expose users' private data.
69 points by chanux | 35 comments
Blog post introducing Magic Switch, a free open-source macOS app for sharing an Apple Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse between two Macs.
36 points by jv22222 | 5 comments
Landing page for Breadcrumb, a free local encrypted Mac app that records screen, meetings, and AI transcripts and exposes them as memory to AI tools via MCP.
30 points by dbg31415 | 22 comments
OSXDaily article offering troubleshooting tips for buggy or laggy Mission Control, Spaces, and Stage Manager in macOS 27.
14 points by turantekin | 7 comments
Landing page for Parrot, a free open-source Mac meeting recorder with a live AI copilot that suggests answers during calls, using local or cloud models.
390 points by SquareOrbits | 279 comments
A personal blog post cataloguing bugs the author encountered in Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate, comparing its stability-focused pitch to Snow Leopard.
9 points by luu | 9 comments
Jeff Kaufman's blog post announcing his Clipboard Normalizer, which strips formatting to Markdown-representable content, is now a free Mac App Store app.
55 points by thiagoperes | 39 comments
Landing page for Beauty, a local Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web with in-place rendering; the capture shows a Vercel security checkpoint instead.
8 points by donk8r | 2 comments
A TypeTab blog post explaining which local LLM model sizes fit on Apple Silicon Macs, which free tools to use, and practical everyday uses.
52 points by metrofun | 20 comments
GitHub repository for Search, a small, fast open-source WebKit-based web browser for macOS by Office Commun, released under the MIT license.
16 points by zilue | 7 comments
Landing page for RxFilm Studio, a native macOS app that uses an AI agent to create and edit product marketing videos with voiceovers, music, and subtitles.
724 points by thatslast | 576 comments
David Bushell's blog post about macOS enabling a feature that phoned home with personal data, which he disabled, and Apple later overriding his choice.
541 points by mikemcquaid | 212 comments
Homebrew 7.0.0 release announcement covering faster installs, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, vulnerability checks, and dropping macOS 10.15 support.
413 points by xlii | 249 comments
Blog post by the developer of RACE, a Rust macOS terminal multiplexer, about how their software ended up flagged or advertised as malicious via Google Ads.
402 points by hentrep | 108 comments
GitHub repository for vphone-cli, a tool to boot a virtual iPhone using Apple's Virtualization.framework on macOS.
514 points by zackb | 206 comments
Blog post introducing Tether, a Linux app the author built to use iMessage, SMS, and iPhone notifications from a Linux desktop after leaving macOS.
406 points by underdeserver | 516 comments
Blog post arguing developers should stop building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) and instead build native GUI applications, re-evaluating the field's attachment to the command line.
364 points by phoenix120 | 173 comments
GitHub repository for DesktopFly, a macOS app showing a 3D fruit fly on the desktop driven by a live spiking simulation of the FlyWire connectome.
361 points by aratahikaru5 | 122 comments
Landing page for Nativ, an open-source macOS app for downloading and running open AI models locally on Apple Silicon without accounts or cloud.
529 points by get-inscribe | 211 comments
Blog post from Inscribe benchmarking Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API against its predecessor and OpenAI Whisper on 5,559 test utterances, with transcripts released.
364 points by xinit | 93 comments
Landing page for Davit, a free, MIT-licensed native macOS app providing a UI for Apple's container platform to run Linux containers on Apple silicon.
644 points by asronline | 269 comments
GitHub repository porting Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour to run natively on macOS, iPhone and iPad using the GPL source, DXVK/MoltenVK, and touch controls.
650 points by zdw | 240 comments
Rogue Amoeba blog post by Paul Kafasis arguing Apple should end its prohibition on custom shapes in macOS app icons.
464 points by kkm | 114 comments
A blog tutorial on running Gemma 4 and Qwen3.6 locally on macOS with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, and multimodal support as a coding agent.
1375 points by mikemcquaid | 325 comments
Homebrew 6.0.0 release announcement covering tap trust security, a new default JSON API, Linux sandboxing, brew bundle improvements, and macOS 27 support.
1154 points by timsneath | 400 comments
Documentation in Apple's container GitHub repo describing container machines, persistent lightweight Linux environments on macOS built from OCI images.
358 points by josephcsible | 146 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that the macOS 27 beta changes the boot picker so Asahi Linux partitions are no longer visible or bootable on Apple Silicon Macs.
583 points by bobbiechen | 235 comments
Landing page for Music Decoy, a macOS utility that prevents the Apple Music app from launching when the Play key is pressed, installable via Homebrew.
569 points by riddley | 230 comments
Landing page for Mouseless, a cross-platform app for controlling the mouse pointer with the keyboard, offering a 14-day trial and lifetime or subscription licenses.
367 points by ranebo | 240 comments
A blog post arguing macOS should restore the grid layout for virtual desktops (Spaces), introducing a tool called GridLion that recreates it.
945 points by antipurist | 345 comments
Consumer Rights Wiki article on Microsoft's scheduled July 2026 conversion of perpetually licensed Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac into a view-only reduced functionality mode.
389 points by kageroumado | 94 comments
GitHub repository for Phosphene, an open-source video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe built by reverse engineering Apple's WallpaperExtensionKit.
395 points by dive | 265 comments
A blog post by a longtime macOS/iOS developer arguing that native SwiftUI text handling, such as selectable Markdown chat, is immature compared to web-based stacks.
438 points by quadrige | 122 comments
Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.
382 points by imtomt | 205 comments
GitHub project ymawky, a static HTTP file server for macOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly using raw Darwin syscalls without libc.
370 points by LorenDB | 261 comments
Blog post complaining about the difficulty of distributing a Go-built developer utility on macOS compared to Windows and Linux, due to Apple's Gatekeeper restrictions.
532 points by maxloh | 237 comments
Notepad++ news post warning that notepad-plus-plus-mac.org is an unauthorized site misusing the Notepad++ trademark to offer a fake macOS version.
505 points by sleepingNomad | 146 comments
GitHub repository for WhatCable, an open-source macOS menu bar app that reports in plain English what each connected USB-C cable supports.
491 points by a-ve | 280 comments
Product page for boringBar, a paid taskbar-style macOS Dock replacement showing per-Space windows, with a 14-day trial and $9.99/year pricing.
449 points by zdw | 152 comments
Eclectic Light Company blog post by Howard Oakley explaining why macOS Privacy & Security settings cannot be relied upon to reflect actual app permissions.
614 points by PaulHoule | 295 comments
Blog post describing a native method to disable the macOS space-switching animation for instant space switching, after surveying existing solutions.
436 points by MattHart88 | 190 comments
GitHub repository for Ghost Pepper, an open-source macOS hold-to-talk speech-to-text app using local WhisperKit and LLM cleanup models.
380 points by vbtechguy | 94 comments
A blog post walking through setting up Google Gemma 4 26B for local inference on macOS using LM Studio 0.4.0's headless lms CLI, and using it with Claude Code.
466 points by naves | 210 comments
Tinygrad/Tiny Corp's announcement, covered by The Verge, that Apple signed its driver letting Nvidia eGPUs work on Arm Macs without disabling SIP.
626 points by franze | 137 comments
Landing page for apfel, an MIT-licensed tool exposing Apple's built-in on-device LLM on Macs as a CLI, OpenAI-compatible server, and chat.
542 points by tosh | 289 comments
Tailscale blog post announcing a new macOS app interface that moves out of the menu bar to avoid being hidden by the MacBook notch.
675 points by hkmaxpro | 306 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that Steam on Linux usage rose above 5% in Valve's March 2026 Steam Survey, more than double macOS's share.
386 points by chalmovsky | 211 comments
A blog post ranting about Samsung's Magician SSD utility and documenting the 18-step process, including two Recovery Mode reboots, needed to uninstall it.
509 points by speckx | 340 comments
Blog post on making macOS 26 window corners consistently rounded across apps via an AppKit code tweak, instead of disabling SIP to remove roundness.
610 points by bentocorp | 571 comments
9to5Mac news article reporting that Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro and has no plans for future Mac Pro hardware.
418 points by zdw | 242 comments
Blog post by developer Jeff Johnson complaining that Apple closes Feedback Assistant bug reports unless developers verify bugs persist in macOS betas.
345 points by syx | 329 comments
Personal blog post by Andre Garzia explaining why he is leaving Apple and plans to migrate away from its devices.
379 points by mft_ | 119 comments
GitHub repository for Flash-MoE, a project for running a 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model on a laptop using Metal inference code.
324 points by adamamyl | 165 comments
GitHub Gist bug report describing how a macOS 26.3.1 update breaks /etc/resolver/ supplemental DNS configuration for custom TLDs like .internal.
403 points by avionics-guy | 133 comments
GitHub repository for MouseControl (Mouser), a lightweight open-source Python alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping MX Master 3S mouse buttons.