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Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials
55•stubish•2h ago•4 comments

Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

https://quantum5.ca/2025/05/11/fast-cheap-bulk-storage-using-lvm-to-cache-hdds-on-ssds/
57•todsacerdoti•3h ago•13 comments

Smallest particulate matter sensor revolutionizes air quality measurement

https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/news/worlds-smallest-particulate-matter-sensor-bmv080.html
37•Liftyee•3h ago•5 comments

A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation

https://github.com/pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server
18•LorenDB•3d ago•7 comments

Resizable structs in Zig

https://tristanpemble.com/resizable-structs-in-zig/
113•rvrb•9h ago•48 comments

How we rooted Copilot

https://research.eye.security/how-we-rooted-copilot/
290•uponasmile•15h ago•112 comments

Purple Earth hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis
215•colinprince•3d ago•58 comments

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

https://furnacecreek.org/quicktunes/
72•albertru90•7h ago•20 comments

Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

https://www.infineon.com/part/BGT60TR13C
60•teleforce•3d ago•22 comments

16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
25•debo_•3d ago•5 comments

Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation
86•JumpCrisscross•8h ago•82 comments

Rust running on every GPU

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/07/25/rust-on-every-gpu/
524•littlestymaar•21h ago•176 comments

Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwo1XsKKXg
58•magnifique•8h ago•4 comments

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html
69•brandonb•9h ago•58 comments

What went wrong for Yahoo

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-went-wrong-for-yahoo/
158•giuliomagnifico•12h ago•154 comments

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/BashGoodSetEReports
104•zdw•3d ago•31 comments

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lab-grown-diamonds-1.7592336
188•geox•18h ago•227 comments

The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign

https://www.robertmao.com/blog/en/the-future-is-not-self-hosted-but-self-sovereign
4•robmao•2h ago•3 comments

Cable Bacteria Are Living Batteries

https://www.asimov.press/p/cable-bacteria
7•mailyk•3d ago•0 comments

Arvo Pärt at 90

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/24/the-god-of-small-things-celebrating-arvo-part-at-90
71•merrier•10h ago•19 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html
74•smartmic•9h ago•25 comments

Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17615
49•virgildotcodes•8h ago•4 comments

Where are vacation homes located in the US?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-are-vacation-homes-located
89•rufus_foreman•13h ago•69 comments

Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp

https://janet-lang.org
21•veqq•5h ago•2 comments

Shallow water is dangerous too

https://www.jefftk.com/p/shallow-water-is-dangerous-too
111•surprisetalk•3d ago•72 comments

Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu

https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-petroglyphs-uncovered-20780579.php
80•c420•4d ago•23 comments

Test Results for AMD Zen 5

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=287&start=10
220•matt_d•12h ago•42 comments

Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python

https://github.com/patrick-kidger/tinyio
68•tehnub•4d ago•17 comments

Millet mystery: A staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-millet-mystery-staple-crop-root.html
26•PaulHoule•3d ago•9 comments

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/open-sauce-confoundingly-brilliant-bay-area-event
330•rbanffy•3d ago•186 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

https://furnacecreek.org/quicktunes/
72•albertru90•7h ago
The slow and bloated nature of the Mac Apple Music app inspired us to create QuickTunes. It is a simple, fast, and native Apple Music player inspired by the simplicity of the iPod. You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate a simple multi column layout, pick something, and press Play.

Comments

bigyabai•7h ago
Reminiscent of Spot for Linux, another great shortcut-oriented streaming interface for those of you who ditched the Mac: https://github.com/xou816/spot
zapzupnz•6h ago
The name seems awfully close to QuickTune, another frontend to Apple Music.

https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune/

dostick•5h ago
Modern player is not only about UIUX but also which music storage it supports, DLNA, Plex, Jellyfin, that’s the main feature users will be checking. If it’s just AppleMusic player.
notpushkin•3h ago
That’s not true – plenty of users don’t really care about that. That said, it would be really nice to see more players (pun?) in this space.
jazzyjackson•1h ago
OK there's a bunch of jellyfin clients tho. This is an Apple Music client. why you gotta drag somebody over this.
MangoToupe•47m ago
Why does it matter what the backend is? A music player is a music player; it shouldn't matter where the music comes from.
slau•34m ago
Well, it matters when you have to integrate with APIs and idiosyncrasies of third parties, and whatever draconian DRM they require. It’s obviously not impossible to add support for multiple backends, but from a development effort it definitely matters.

It’s not like streaming platforms are gingerly implementing open and common standards for music streaming. Winamp had support for .m3u and streaming back in ‘04, but we’ve moved on from that.

MBCook•5h ago
Another alternate client that’s great is LongPlay.

Instead of being a better UI like QuickTunes, LongPlay is specifically designed for one thing and one thing only: full album listening.

Things are presented as full albums, and they play as full albums. You can choose whether skipping skips a single track or an entire album.

Tracks in an album are always played in order.

The main picking interface? Just a grid of album covers, like that old screensaver Macs used to have.

It’s great.

constantinum•4h ago
just curious? Can we integrate Apple Music Subscription into LongPlay? Or This works only when you have your own collection of music that you own?
MBCook•2h ago
I’m not sure.

I suspect you can just play anything in your library, whether Apple Music or purchased/ripped, but honestly I don’t know.

greymalik•36m ago
Apple Music, iTunes, and manually synced music.
leakycap•4h ago
The fax app on their website is a great solution to having the ability to send a fax without subscribing to anything.
entropie•2h ago
Found the german?
browningstreet•2h ago
Any alt- Apple Music players for Windows? The Apple Music app on Windows has a lot of “native platform app” shortcomings.
eisa01•15m ago
Any alternatives for iOS? I’m sick of the search defaulting to Apple Music the streaming service
dontlaugh•5m ago
Looks cool.

There’s also Cider, I use it on Linux https://cider.sh/.