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The lost joy of music piracy

https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming
150•mcgin•2h ago•70 comments

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
906•vimarsh6739•13h ago•221 comments

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

https://madcampos.dev/blog/2026/07/accessibility-from-scratch/
73•treve•3h ago•34 comments

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/
227•gnyeki•8h ago•82 comments

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/explore-1300-beautiful-wildlife-illustrations-from-the-19th-c...
52•gslin•4h ago•7 comments

Grok Build is open source

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build
399•skp1995•10h ago•425 comments

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf
161•bilsbie•10h ago•58 comments

Making 768 servers look like 1

https://planetscale.com/blog/making-768-servers-look-like-1
49•hisamafahri•3h ago•9 comments

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

https://atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark
77•chaosharmonic•6h ago•30 comments

Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11859
32•Jimmc414•5h ago•3 comments

Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

https://goughlui.com/2026/07/09/teardown-a-generic-7-port-usb-3-0-hub-that-wasnt/
18•speckx•3d ago•1 comments

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sour...
423•rvz•1d ago•229 comments

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

https://davidobando.github.io/gsharp/
83•serial_dev•4d ago•45 comments

High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights

https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash
32•Gaishan•1d ago•10 comments

I also filed the corners off my MacBook

https://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/
136•maxbrt•1d ago•35 comments

The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas

https://a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/confessions/the-last-picture-show-a-conversation-with-george-...
15•Michelangelo11•2d ago•2 comments

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-...
274•neomindryan•15h ago•179 comments

Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents

https://coasty.ai/docs
32•nkov47•15h ago•7 comments

Job queues are deceptively tricky

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html
68•ingve•1d ago•18 comments

LLM Networking with MikroTik

https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html
78•gregsadetsky•9h ago•35 comments

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

https://pmbanugo.me/blog/why-async-await-complect-concurrency
43•LAC-Tech•5h ago•33 comments

Netstrings (1997)

https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt
8•signa11•1h ago•5 comments

Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
64•cratermoon•2h ago•41 comments

Command Line Interface Guidelines

https://clig.dev/
110•subset•3d ago•24 comments

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle...
50•andsoitis•8h ago•12 comments

Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later

https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser
6•AbuAssar•2h ago•0 comments

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20
116•spacemarine1•11h ago•34 comments

Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes

https://www.petekeen.net/homelab-resolved/
14•zrail•4d ago•7 comments

Show HN: One More Letter

https://playonemoreletter.com/
65•hmate9•8h ago•43 comments

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

https://clocks.dev
225•levmiseri•14h ago•40 comments
Open in hackernews

I also filed the corners off my MacBook

https://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/
136•maxbrt•1d ago

Comments

wolvoleo•1d ago
Yeah the sharp edges have bothered me since they started with the unibody. Luckily I'm completely off Mac these days. But really the last mac I enjoyed using was my powerbook. It had really nice plastic gaskets for the edges, a keyboard with really good travel and cupped keys, it was wonderful.

I got a plastic MacBook eventually which I filed down too because the edges were really sharp there. And plastic is easy to file. Also replaced the screen with a matte version, on the plastic MacBook that was also easy because the screens were readily available and there was no glass overlay.

Then I had a unibody MBP 15" matte. Less sharp and with off factory matte display. Not great keyboard though.

The current MBP I find abhorrent. Even after they switched from the horrible butterfly mistake the travel is still way too shallow. I just can't work with that anymore. These days I just don't buy laptops anymore. Only desk PCs.

zaptrem•1d ago
This is my number one complaint about the M-series MBP line. Especially true of the cutout in the middle that has points so sharp they can cut you if you accidentally scrape it with your hand.
jader201•1h ago
Is this unique to the M-series?

My 2015 MBP has this exact same issue.

_nivlac_•40m ago
I'm guessing they meant they had more complaints about the non-M models. Though I also misread the way you did too.
BenFranklin100•1d ago
Get one of these:

https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm?variant=397924980491...

Pricey, but the lip covers the edge. My current one is 4 years old and lasted a couple of generations of Macbooks.

npunt•1d ago
The Helm is great. I'm not sure it really solves the wrists problem, at least for me since for how I use it the height of the laptop makes a huge difference in ergonomics. The MacBook Pro is already tall, and the Helm makes it taller, creating pressure on the wrists. Meanwhile I don't have this problem on my carry everywhere MacBook Air since it's so thin.
Neywiny•1d ago
Good to see a recognition that power tools are powerful. Too many amateur videos of people experimenting without nearly enough control and messing up projects
JSR_FDED•1d ago
Brave to do this on a blue color MacBook - curious how the filed area will look compared to the rest of the body after some time.
maxbrt•1d ago
I'll try to do some updates after a while!
mc3301•23h ago
I used a dark blue sharpie to cover up some scratches; works fine and I touch it up every few months.
gnabgib•1d ago
Related: Filing the corners off my MacBooks (1406 points, 3mos ago, 678 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352
baldeagle•1d ago
https://a.co/d/0hXtPRfC

Amazon link to a debuting tool. It uses sharp harder metal to cut off sharp metal edges.

lrvick•1d ago
Now try modifying the software that Apple sold you with it.
maxbrt•1d ago
Yeah that's been a major headache. I ssh into my server/desktop most of the time anyways, so there is no friction there. Then also I was surprised by how well VMs with OrbStack on Mac run. With yabai and skhd I've gotten it pretty closely to where I previously was with i3.

Even still, I'm looking forward to the day where I can run Asahi on this

lrvick•14h ago
Three employers in a row insisted on handing me a macbook, and three times in a row I ported Gentoo to it out of pure spite and disdain for third parties trying to control the binaries I use to do my job.

At the time they called this crazy and unproductive, but those obsessions with control of my tools built the foundational skillsets that drove my career.

Hammershaft•54m ago
If you struggle with Yabai I'll reccomend Aerospace, which I think is more performant & reliable.
bpye•54m ago
They don't document the hardware, but it is possible to run unsigned code on the SoC - that's how the Asahi Linux project is able to exist.
bofadeez•23h ago
"The moment I am too scared to do something because I might damage the tool, it stops being a tool"

That's just not the definition of the word "tool" at all but okay... whatever

maxbrt•22h ago
Sorry you did not like that part! All I was trying to express was that even though this thing is nice and shiny, it is a tool in the end so if modifying it would make it serve that purpose better, one should not be scared to do so. I wasn't trying to give a definition, but perhaps I should rephrase that. Thanks!
hinata08•19h ago
Calling it a tool is fine.

Some people would like to pretend means of production are holy assets you're supposed to value and trade (INVEST!!! making value is for losers and _these_ workers), when it's just a consummable that should serve a purpose right now.

A computer is a tool and customizing the case is not unheard of.

Thank you for desmystifying the Mac. Users know best.

dlcarrier•39m ago
It made sense to me. If you're to scared to use it without limits, then it is not useful for the scope of its intended purpose.
dlcarrier•40m ago
It implies that it stops being a usable tool. It's still the same item, but it isn't able to be used as such.
zecg•22h ago
> The moment I am too scared to do something because I might damage the tool, it stops being a tool.

What? You can damage even the most robust and simple tool by using it wrongly or inattentively.

maxbrt•19h ago
You are correct, that was phrased badly. I've tried to update it, thanks for the comment.
HugoTea•19h ago
I love the animation on the background of your website. And I totally understand what you mean about using a tool, if it's too delicate to do the job, then it's not doing its job. Imagine buying a hammer and trying to keep it clear of scuffs, it's obviously going to impede your work.
BoxOfRain•17h ago
Yeah I think the grief OP was getting over that statement in some of the other comments is unwarranted, I understand completely what they mean about tools. You have people who buy expensive guitars and barely play them for fear of scuffing them for example, depriving themselves and the tool of the thing it's actually for. I'll never understand that mentality.

I don't like to be precious about my tools either, scratches and so on are evidence it's being used for what it's made for!

maxbrt•16h ago
Thanks for the encouragement, glad you like the background :-) Yeah I phrased it a bit badly initially. But what I meant was pretty much what you stated!
dangayle•30m ago
I bought a 1973 Fender Jazzmaster that was immaculate and should have been my forever guitar. I was so afraid of "ruining the value" that I sold it. I couldn't play it, I was so paranoid. It got into my head. Instead, I ended up buying a '65 AVRI Jazzmaster body and put on an EGC aluminum neck and a Tuffset bridge. The price was about 2/3 of the vintage one, but I have no qualms about playing this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
alanwreath•1h ago
yes I want a post about that background, its pretty awesome how it gradually and seemingly randomly builds itself.
anthonyko•1h ago
another example: https://bsky.app/profile/s.ly/post/3mlo7ajrqdk2o Jesse Vincent used a deburring tool.
carodgers•58m ago
I would just like to say that with this page open I have ~15% utilization on my GPU. XD
trvz•31s ago
I checked, too, after your comment. It's ~50% on an M2 (with 10 GPU cores) according to iStat Menus.
dmaa•48m ago
Great article and happy to see that I'm not alone. I don't get why on such a well thought-out and built device as this, the corners are so sharp.

From how I use the trackpad, the bottom of my thumb always feels sore-ish after a day's work and it took me a while to trace this to the sharp cornern of my macbook.

wodenokoto•42m ago
Maybe I drank the cool-aid, but I like the corners on my Mac, and it took a lot of empathy from me to accept “the other” authors filing job, but this looks beautiful.

Thanks to both authors for sharing the work!

vortegne•37m ago
looks great! not shade to the other guy, but your job is so much nicer looking