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MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO

https://blog.vonng.com/en/db/minio-resurrect/
129•zufallsheld•2h ago•41 comments

The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611
29•ksec•1h ago•8 comments

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless
350•adilmoujahid•6h ago•124 comments

The happiest I've ever been

https://ben-mini.com/2026/the-happiest-ive-ever-been
256•bewal416•2d ago•104 comments

Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition

https://alexlitzenberger.com/blog/post.html?post=/building_a_minimal_transformer_for_10_digit_add...
21•kelseyfrog•1h ago•3 comments

Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts

https://robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/
88•todsacerdoti•4h ago•31 comments

Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/20632
185•RyanShook•9h ago•147 comments

Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)

https://gist.github.com/dollspace-gay/d8d3bc3ecf4188df049d7a4726bb2a00
131•todsacerdoti•6h ago•66 comments

Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

https://venturebeat.com/technology/alibabas-new-open-source-qwen3-5-medium-models-offer-sonnet-4-...
123•lostmsu•3h ago•75 comments

Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust

https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi
220•adamnemecek•3d ago•96 comments

Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/werner-herzog-future-truth/
57•Hooke•1d ago•10 comments

New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/
93•rbanffy•3d ago•62 comments

Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

https://nowigetit.us
167•jbdamask•9h ago•91 comments

The whole thing was a scam

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam
485•guilamu•6h ago•136 comments

Our Agreement with the Department of War

https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war
167•surprisetalk•2h ago•146 comments

747s and Coding Agents

https://carlkolon.com/2026/02/27/engineering-747-coding-agents/
113•cckolon•1d ago•49 comments

We Will Not Be Divided

https://notdivided.org
2520•BloondAndDoom•22h ago•784 comments

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

https://www.popsci.com/technology/floppy-disk-archivist-project/
33•Brajeshwar•3d ago•3 comments

Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”

https://superchartisland.com/ghostsn-goblins/
54•elvis70•3d ago•23 comments

From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion

https://lighthousesoftware.co.uk/projects/from-noise-to-image/
89•simedw•2d ago•13 comments

What I learned while trying to build a production-ready nearest neighbor system

https://github.com/thatipamula-jashwanth/smart-knn
13•Jashwanth01•3d ago•7 comments

Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code

https://mksg.lu/blog/context-mode
187•mksglu•13h ago•46 comments

'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/26/steven-isserlis-on-the-formidable-gyorgy-kurtag-at-100
16•mitchbob•2d ago•0 comments

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/
212•dinvlad•3d ago•155 comments

Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs

https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/unsloth-dynamic-2.0-ggufs
187•tosh•14h ago•50 comments

The Future of AI

https://lucijagregov.com/2026/02/26/the-future-of-ai/
106•BerislavLopac•12h ago•86 comments

Laravel Inertia Toast

https://github.com/veekthoven/laravel-inertia-toast
3•veekthoven•2d ago•2 comments

The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/middleeast/israel-attack-iran-intl-hnk
958•lavp•16h ago•2171 comments

"We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2027846016423321831
25•golfer•2h ago•2 comments

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175
1318•eoskx•20h ago•612 comments
Open in hackernews

Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts

https://robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/
88•todsacerdoti•4h ago

Comments

thecopy•2h ago
Im planning on getting the new M5 MBP i expect to be released next week. Is it possible to downgrade? I assume it comes with Tahoe :(
mpalmer•1h ago
Almost certainly not :|
mhurron•1h ago
Typically no, Mac's don't expect to run versions of macOS before the one they were released with.
teaearlgraycold•58m ago
Why not buy a used M4 Pro/Max?
layer8•38m ago
It’s not worth it, especially since the M6 MBP is rumored to already come out later this year (though likely with a price hike): https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/26/two-unique-new-macbook-pros-a...
cosmic_cheese•8m ago
Depends on what one is looking for. I'm considering upgrading to an M5 model because while the M6 redesign might come with some nicer specs, it's also going to be coming with some teething pains by virtue of having a new design. The M5 generation is probably going to be a speed bump with a chassis and screen that's a known quantity and has had the kinks smoothed out.
sgloutnikov•26m ago
It's possible if you do a wipe and do a fresh install. You essentially boot into the Sequoia installer. I'm also looking at possibly picking up a M5 MBP and was the first things I looked into.
DavidPiper•1h ago
I accidentally hit the wrong button a few weeks ago and upgraded to Tahoe. I didn't think it was that big a deal at the time, I'd just been putting it off.

But having used it for a few weeks now I can confirm it is a strict downgrade over Sequoia for me. I use none of the new features it has introduced, and the changes to existing features are just worse.

Some UI animations are slow and jittery - and this is on an M4 Pro. The Finder has gone from fine to janky once again, especially with horizontal scroll. The window corners and mouse interactions are indeed annoying (I'd assumed the many complaints were at least slight hyperbole). Left-aligned window titles are unbalanced and ugly. I've had weird (visual) app duplication issues with the Application smart-folder in the Dock. Cross-device copy-paste SEEMS to be more flaky than usual. And most petty of all I really don't like the new icons - especially the Trash icon for some reason.

Hamuko•1h ago
I have Tahoe on my work laptop and Sequoia on my personal desktop, and the thing that keeps me the most rooted on Sequoia is the padding. Everything on Tahoe is padded to hell and back. And the new tab design sucks so much. iTerm2 tabs look fucking terrible in it.
gib444•1h ago
> Some UI animations are slow and jittery - and this is on an M4 Pro

On an M4 Pro! Pure planned obsecelence. Noticed it regularly with major MacOS releases. Nothing will convince me otherwise.

teaearlgraycold•58m ago
Yeah they should have bought the M5 Pro /s
burgerone•9m ago
People with apple hardware quickly realize that they have too much money
TuxSH•34m ago
Also Apple Music is much worse (harder to bring miniplayer, seek bar harder to use) and list of misfeatures goes on and on and on
apparent•16m ago
Good to know. My dad recently asked and I didn't know the pros/cons. I haven't upgraded but that's because I don't have a need to. He has a new Mac mini, and I thought it might make sense for him. But it sounds like it's not an upgrade, and is possibly a downgrade, especially if it will make things harder to find.
pier25•1h ago
It's much easier to simply use this with whatever date you prefer:

    defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date "2030-03-03 12:00:00 +0000"
egb•37m ago
I've got that in place and still get the Tahoe popups, so there's some other mechanism here.
crazygringo•1h ago
> Which means I have the joy of seeing things like this wonderful notification on a regular basis.

Weird, I haven't seen that once. I wonder what explains the difference?

fidotron•1h ago
Same problem here.

Linux + KDE surpassed Windows many years ago, now I find I also prefer it to the Mac laptops, which are otherwise better only for portability.

Apple need to get their software act together. Such a shame because the hardware is awesome. A near perfect inversion of the era of Tiger on the G4.

beacon294•35m ago
I read the old forums carefully:

- simply decline/reject the TOS on install. It will auto uninstall the installer and go away.

Life has been good since.

1f60c•19m ago
I TRUSTED YOU! Nooooooooo!

Anyway, I hope you're happy.

(To be fair, I assumed it would show me a TOS prompt again, but it did not. Oh well.)

xbar•22m ago
Thank you. I own several Macs. One is on Tahoe. It feels the worst. More than myself, though, I need to give my less technical family members a respite from the tricky traps that lead to inadvertently installing it.
n8cpdx•2m ago
As bad as it is, I don't think it is bad in ways that non technical users are likely to notice unfortunately. Mostly because I think years of horrible software have trained people to not have expectations.

Tahoe is still a breath of fresh air compared to Windows, and iOS 26 is still great compared to Android (as I've unfortunately learned from a failed switch attempt).

kjuulh•16m ago
Upgrading to Sequoia was a mistake, and so was upgrading to Tahoe.

I like new and shiny software, but these two releases aren't great. Outside of a good amount of bugs. It is wild to me that Apple can't even get their own UI consistent.

Apples own apps are pretty much the only things you can't close. Finder: can't quit. System settings, somehow doesn't expand horizontally (are we still in the 2000s apple?) I haven't felt the liquid glass or whatever too much on the laptop, but I just used one of my family members Iphone today, and man it was distracting, it seems crazy that contrast has gone out the window.

But especially the bugs. Apple should really take a release that is just bug fixing. I had to switch out Spotlight because it kept trying to want to index my entire system, which is hard when you work in both Rust and typescript projects (lots of small files).