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Macintosh Drawing Software Compared (2021)

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/24/macintosh-drawing-software-compared/
21•rcarmo•6h ago

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WillAdams•3h ago
For Mac OS System 7 and apparently the context is the Mac OS on iPad Pro from the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942954

as much as I love to run Macromedia Freehand MX, I'd be hard put to choose running it in an emulator rather than a native application such as Serif's Affinity Designer

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/ipad/

which is apparently quite nice w/ an Apple Pencil.

That said, I'd be interested in a similar overview of contemporary vector drawing programs for Mac OS X and the iPad, since Windows 11 has me wanting an alternative to my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 and Wacom EMR stylus and toggling the Windows Setting which allows me to run Freehand....

scelerat•22m ago
Just seeing those names brought back a lot of memories. I was especially fond of Superpaint and Deneba Canvas. But I also got a lot done with MacDraw Pro, which I think at the time was considered limited.

Still love OmniGraffle which itself is getting long in the tooth but still has one of the nicest diagram layout engines I’ve used

Obsidian Bases

https://help.obsidian.md/bases
200•twapi•1h ago•52 comments

Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

https://www.fractionaljobs.io
54•tbird24•2h ago•19 comments

What could have been

https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/what-could-have-been/
74•coppolaemilio•50m ago•39 comments

Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lab-grown-salmon-hits-the-menu-at-an-oregon-restaurant-as-the-fda-greenlights-the-cell-cultured-product-180986769/
13•bookmtn•50m ago•5 comments

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering
225•braden-w•6h ago•57 comments

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

https://nadia.xyz/shameless
21•wdaher•52m ago•1 comments

A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

https://github.com/tiny-tpu-v2/tiny-tpu
50•admp•2h ago•2 comments

Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c
81•maxraven•4h ago•55 comments

Left to Right Programming

https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming
169•graic•6h ago•150 comments

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad
1•richard_pepper•1h ago

The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are Not Getting Harder to Find

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5242171
31•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef
77•throw0101a•56m ago•22 comments

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/counter-strike-half-life-minh-le.html
176•asnyder•8h ago•150 comments

Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

https://scrollguard.app/
447•adrianhacar•2d ago•174 comments

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

https://annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html
743•jerheinze•6h ago•351 comments

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons
288•flykespice•9h ago•82 comments

An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower

https://jotunheimr.idlerpg.net/users/jotun/lawnmower/
10•rickcarlino•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem

https://www.tinytpu.com
33•evxxan•3h ago•8 comments

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/
124•rntn•3h ago•56 comments

Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/sikkim-and-himalayan-chess-game
20•pepys•3d ago•4 comments

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/t-mobile-claimed-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal-judges-disagree/
182•Bender•3h ago•52 comments

Phrack 72

https://phrack.org/issues/72/1
30•todsacerdoti•1h ago•2 comments

Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

https://fsantanna.github.io/sc.html
6•jbkcc•1h ago•0 comments

The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

https://5wgraphicsblog.com/2016/10/24/the-cutaway-illustrations-of-fred-freeman/
67•Michelangelo11•2d ago•6 comments

Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

https://www.realitydefender.com/platform/api
63•bpcrd•8h ago•28 comments

Typechecker Zoo

https://sdiehl.github.io/typechecker-zoo/
134•todsacerdoti•3d ago•23 comments

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mindless-machines-mindless-myths/
30•lermontov•15h ago•0 comments

The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

https://nearlyright.com/how-ai-researchers-accidentally-discovered-that-everything-they-thought-about-learning-was-wrong/
59•076ae80a-3c97-4•6h ago•30 comments

The Weight of a Cell

https://www.asimov.press/p/cell-weight
73•arbesman•7h ago•26 comments

How much do electric car batteries degrade?

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-car-battery-degradation
95•xnx•5h ago•142 comments