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Against Steve Jobs' wishes, Apple may be working on a touchscreen MacBook Pro

https://www.neowin.net/news/against-steve-jobs-wishes-apple-may-be-working-on-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro/
5•bundie•2h ago

Comments

aurareturn•1h ago
I've never once wished my Macbook has a touch screen. I think it's a waste of money, technical resources, and maintenance needed to enable touch on macOS.
duxup•1h ago
I’ve had laptops with touchscreens and without and I never noticed a difference / didn’t use them.
HardwareLust•1h ago
Jobs was right, as usual. It's a useless feature nobody wants other than Apple's marketing department.
detaro•1h ago
IMHO a macOS-capable iPad Pro would be the more elegant path.
jgrahamc•1h ago
It's interesting that some of the commentators here are very, very against touch screens on a laptop. I use a MacBook Pro and a Panasonic Toughbook (https://blog.jgc.org/2025/07/ode-to-anti-mac-panasonic-tough...). The Panasonic has a touch screen and I love being able to touch a window to bring it to the foreground and use my finger instead of the mouse. It works well for "I want the input point to be here".
markx2•1h ago
To make a screen that is designed for touch will mean thicker heavier screens which has to impact the width surely?

Or will we see "You are touching it wrong"?

Rerun 0.25 – transparency, table filtering and initial MCAP support

https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/tag/0.25.0
1•Tycho87•48s ago•1 comments

The Code is your Enemy (2013)

https://longform.asmartbear.com/code-is-your-enemy/
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What should I consider when designing a custom embedded graphics format?

1•denis_dolya•3m ago•1 comments

Science's answer to the ultimate question: Where do we come from?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/science-answer-ultimate-question/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

LIGO's 10th anniversary gift confirms Hawking's theorem

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/ligo-10-anniversary-hawking-theorem/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

A Napster Moment for AI?

https://cepa.org/article/a-napster-moment-for-ai/
1•geox•3m ago•0 comments

Gene editing is changing the meat in our diet

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-09-17/gene-editing-food-fish-beef-pork-regulations-genet...
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Karpenter for Any Kubernetes Cluster

https://www.vcluster.com/blog/introducing-vcluster-auto-nodes-karpenter-based-dynamic-autoscaling...
4•saiyampathak•4m ago•0 comments

A refresh of Learn CSS with nine new modules

https://web.dev/blog/learn-css-refresh
2•eustoria•4m ago•0 comments

Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
2•leephillips•5m ago•0 comments

Software owned by Australian banks being tested for social media ban

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/software-owned-by-australian-banks-being-tested-social-m...
1•c420•6m ago•0 comments

How Buyers Build Their Shortlist – and Why It's So Hard to Break In

https://www.learning.propelgrowth.com/blog/how-buyers-build-their-shortlist-and-why-it-s-so-hard-...
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-26/methane-leaks-at-california-oil-facilities-a...
1•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

Sugar-Proto: Strongly Typed, Expressive, User Friendly Protobuf Wrapper

https://github.com/illegal-instruction-co/sugar-proto
1•signa11•6m ago•0 comments

Stroke centres in England given AI tool that will help 50% of patients recover

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/01/stroke-centres-in-england-given-ai-tool-that-will...
1•alphabetatango•7m ago•0 comments

Don't build a spaced repetition startup

https://www.giacomoran.com/blog/dont-build-sr-startup/
2•ran3000•8m ago•0 comments

Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief

https://proton.me/blog/is-whatsapp-safe
1•eustoria•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pingoo – A reverse proxy with built-in WAF and bot protection (in Rust)

https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo
1•sylvain_kerkour•9m ago•0 comments

A single adblock filter may have caused YouTube's global view drop

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375
1•Medea•9m ago•0 comments

California’s driverless taxis transport passengers for more than 4m miles/month

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/californians-now-travel-millions-of-miles-each-month-in-...
1•alphabetatango•9m ago•0 comments

We open source our YC company 1 year later, here's why

https://github.com/comfy-deploy/comfydeploy
2•bennykokmusic•10m ago•0 comments

Is VC Broken? (TL;DR: Yes)

https://pawelbrodzinski.substack.com/p/is-vc-broken
1•flail•10m ago•0 comments

A CEO's Guide to Emacs

https://web.archive.org/web/20181206074048/https://www.fugue.co/blog/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html
2•signa11•10m ago•0 comments

We Cut Support Tickets by Rewriting Error Messages for LLMs

https://www.thundercompute.com/blog/we-cut-support-tickets-by-rewriting-error-messages-for-llms
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Perf
1•signa11•12m ago•0 comments

Not Just the U.S. – The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/magazine/climate-politics-us-world-paris-agreement.html
1•WaltPurvis•13m ago•1 comments

Strong winds at Mount St. Helens stirs up ash from 1980 eruption

https://abcnews.go.com/US/strong-winds-mount-st-helens-stirs-ash-1980/story?id=125641981
1•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Uber, Cabify will slowly disappear in Barcelona due to new taxi law

https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/ride-hailing-services-disappear-barcelona-taxi-law-16-s...
1•asp1•13m ago•0 comments

Systemd 258

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2025-September/051670.html
2•asp1•16m ago•0 comments

Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and...
2•swolpers•18m ago•2 comments