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RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
101•allenleee•1h ago

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frollogaston•41m ago
I'm guessing the x86 emu is cause Windows games are rarely built for ARM, right? Was kinda curious how an ARM VM would fare. Anyway awesome article.
hparadiz•34m ago
Yes. Valve has done a ton of work here because it's required to be able to run x86 games on a Steam Frame which has an ARM cpu.
bigyabai•32m ago
The Steam Deck is pure x86, it's not an ARM-based CPU. The Steam Frame might be what you're thinking of.
hparadiz•6m ago
You're right. I was thinking of what I was reading about the Steam Frame
hypercube33•18m ago
Steam deck runs a full x86-64 AMD APU. The work valve has done for that was to get Windows games to run seamlessly on Linux.

Hopefully in 2026 the Valve Index VR headset which is ARM (Qualcomm?) we get what you're talking about here - basically proton for Win32/64 to Linux ARM64.

Side note that Windows on ARM isn't bad just that its priced out of its league and cooling is awful for gaming on current laptops. The only issue I had was OpenGL needing some obscure GL on DirectX thing for Maya3D to get games to work.

sva_•17m ago
As sibling pointed out, the Steamdeck basically runs a Ryzen 3 7335U which is x86.
moralestapia•38m ago
Wow, phenomenal project and write-up, thanks for sharing it.

"no - not in any practical sense today, and "maybe" only in a very deep, borderline-impractical research sense."

This is why humans will always rule over crappy LLMs.

csours•34m ago
I believe that LLM (and ML in general) tools really shine when they are developed and used AS tools.

Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direction, as LLM companies try to capture the value stream

rvz•30m ago
Exactly. AI psychosis is real.

Never let an AI tell you that you cannot do something practical for your own self for research, discovery or for fun.

The only thing that is close to impractical is expecting your non-technical friends or others to follow you without any incentive or benefit.

falcor84•29m ago
Wait, why? This is exactly what I as a human would have said in this situation.

Or if you're referring to how the OP still decided to go ahead, I've seen AIs go ahead on impractical courses of action many times, and surprisingly succeed on some of them.

moralestapia•22m ago
And I see that you succeeded in not doing it.

Congrats! Each one got what they wanted :).

swiftcoder•37m ago
This is proper mad science, love it
coder68•33m ago
This seems pretty useful for AI inference if it can pass Apple approval. I've wanted to use my Nvidia GPUs with a Mac Mini, this would enable it to run CUDA directly. Very cool!
delbronski•31m ago
Nicely done! Glad to see real hacking is still alive in the age of AI.
mywittyname•22m ago
> As much as I hate to admit it, step one in most of my projects now is to ask AI about it. Maybe it’ll tell me something I don’t know.

Or, more likely, it will tell you something it doesn't know.

Reminds me of yesterday, when I was arguing with ChatGPT that the 5070TI was an actual video card. It kept trying to correct me by saying I must have meant a 4070ti, since no such 5070ti card exists.

perarneng•11m ago
This is why i use grok expert mode. It agressivly goes out searching the web for info. Its so much better then relying on year old data.
_blk•7m ago
Yes, I really like that about Grok. It had a few good qualities but it was too verbose so now it's mostly Claude.
JumpCrisscross•6m ago
Solid compromise is Kagi's research assistant. Aggressively cites, unlike Claude. Concise, unlike Grok.
simonh•10m ago
It’s training data only goes up to late 2024 or early 2025 so that might be why, though it does have access to the internet.
weird-eye-issue•6m ago
Depending on your ChatGPT settings...
collabs•9m ago
Or, it will acknowledge that it made a mistake and continue to make the same mistake again.

I asked Claude to generate an HTML page about PowerShell 7. It gave me a page saying 7.4 was the latest LTS release. I corrected it with links showing 7.6 was released in March and asked it to regenerate with the latest information.

It generated basically the same page with the same claim that 7.4 was the latest release.

matthewfcarlson•20m ago
I have been bothering the VM team for years for VM GPU pass through. I worked on the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and it would have made way more sense if you could run a linux VM and pass through the GPU that goes inside the case!

Sadly, as you can tell, they have not taken me up on my requests. Awesome that other people got it working!

nothinkjustai•12m ago
> As much as I hate to admit it, step one in most of my projects now is to ask AI about it. Maybe it’ll tell me something I don’t know.

It’s these people, not the ones who refuse to use LLMs, who are as they say, “cooked”.

divbzero•7m ago
This is pretty impressive. My impression was that eGPUs simply do not work with Apple Silicon.

The Vibe Coding Hangover

https://checkmarx.com/blog/the-vibe-coding-hangover/
1•speckx•25s ago•0 comments

Four tech waves. Six companies. Here's what I'm building next

https://www.tamccann.com/four-tech-waves-six-companies-heres-what-im-building-next/
1•mahirsaid•44s ago•0 comments

Data readiness for agentic AI in financial services

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/14/1137034/data-readiness-for-agentic-ai-in-financial-se...
1•joozio•1m ago•0 comments

Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/princeton-proctor-exams-ai-b2976111.html
1•madihaa•1m ago•0 comments

Next-gen pumps use film-based technology

https://www.foodprocessing.com.au/content/processing/article/next-gen-pumps-use-film-based-techno...
1•PaulHoule•1m ago•0 comments

Agents Can Reason. They Still Can't Search

https://dipkumar.dev/posts/agents/agent-search-problem/
4•askhn1234_12•3m ago•0 comments

Stop using user passwords for OpenStack automation

https://thobias.org/2026/05/10/openstack_app_credentials.html
1•cavanche•3m ago•0 comments

Steve Jobs Years at NeXT Shaped His Success as Apple CEO

https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-jobs-next-computer
1•oldnetguy•4m ago•0 comments

US audit regulator weighs deep staff cuts to unit overseeing accounting firms

https://www.ft.com/content/f5c56c66-2896-4ef1-9a6a-49c59e76f23e
1•petethomas•4m ago•0 comments

Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record–then it crashed

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/solar-drone-with-jumbo-jet-wingspan-broke-a-flight-record...
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/openai-apple-partnership-frays-setting-up-poss...
3•helsinkiandrew•5m ago•0 comments

Why Your AI Can Write a Novel but Still Struggles to Count to Fifty LLMHall

https://beeble.com/en/blog/why-your-ai-can-write-a-novel-but-still-struggles-to-count-to-fifty
1•odysseyk•7m ago•0 comments

Bay Area tech giant Cisco to cut jobs after record revenue

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/cisco-layoffs-bay-area-22257875.php
1•mikhael•7m ago•0 comments

Canada court quashes bid by Alberta separatists for independence referendum

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/alberta-separation-referendum-independence-petition...
1•Geekette•7m ago•0 comments

GitHub Copilot App

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-14-github-copilot-app-is-now-available-in-technical-preview/
1•hmokiguess•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: nichy – a visualizer for Rust type memory layouts

https://niche.rs/
1•iridis•9m ago•0 comments

Silent Jungles

https://suziepetryk.com/blog/jungles.html
1•tancik•9m ago•0 comments

Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release

https://www.erlang.org/news/188
1•birdculture•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sun – a Prolog generator for the 2026 solar eclipse

https://github.com/bergholt/triptych
1•kasperbergholt•10m ago•0 comments

Tic Tac Throne – a 3×3 grid game with checkers-class complexity

https://tic-tac-throw.vercel.app/
1•firesofmay•10m ago•0 comments

Nginx Rift Heap-based Buffer Overflow

https://depthfirst.com/nginx-rift
1•planb•11m ago•0 comments

The Sad Wives of AI

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/
1•bryanrasmussen•13m ago•0 comments

Perseverance Snaps a Selfie on Mars

https://nautil.us/perseverance-snaps-a-selfie-on-mars-1280734
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Three AWS VPS Runs Looked Identical – One Still Failed Under Load

https://webbynode.com/articles/three-aws-vps-runs-looked-identical-one-still-failed-under-load
1•gsgreen•15m ago•0 comments

How I Sandbox My AI Agents

https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/how-i-sandbox-ai-agents
2•fidelramos•16m ago•0 comments

Apple has won a prestigious award for iOS 26's Liquid Glass design

https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/apple-has-won-a-prestigious-award-for-ios-26s-liquid-glass-design/
1•danorama•18m ago•1 comments

Vibecoding – A vibecoding tool for HR who still don't get what vibecoding is

1•zhenruyan•19m ago•1 comments

Like Ollama, but for your own cloud [Apache 2.0]

https://github.com/superlinked/sie
1•supo•19m ago•1 comments

Conductor: Deterministic orchestration for multi-agent AI workflows

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/05/14/conductor-deterministic-orchestration-for-multi-...
1•hulksmash5756•19m ago•0 comments

Military Snipers Are Being Put Out of a Job by Drones

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/military-snipers-are-being-put-out-of-a-job-by-drones-ae85a271
2•JumpCrisscross•21m ago•0 comments