outcoldman

Denver airport has the same. And it does not just ask for 18. I think 18 is the minimum, it is 18/20/25 or something similar. For water bottle priced for $5

Maybe, but I switched from IntelliJ to Zed. And eventually stopped paying for Jetbrains products.

I believe the one I have seen a few times paying/ordering in the restaurants is Toast app.

The only big noticeable issue for me was building a large enterprise images (like Splunk). This issue was fixed [1]. Other than that I have not seen any issues with IO or performance. Running Splunk/OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, some performance tests, enterprise software written in Go (building for arm64/amd64). No issues at all.

1. https://github.com/apple/container/issues/68

Not sure about Windows, but yes to Linux. It runs linux containers (not darwin), plus can have rosetta. And I build multi arch images (arm64/amd64). It uses buildkit, the same Docker uses, so I am sure you can build Windows containers with it as well.

Just a note, I am working for the org, that sells enterprise software shipped as container images, publishes on Docker Hub and RedHat. No issues migrating to apple/container.

If somebody missed it, apple/container is a good replacement for Docker for Mac on macOS. I have been using it for the last 6 months, there are issues, but also team is actively developing it.

https://github.com/apple/container

I referenced everything about comparing to M4. I left outside the comparison with M1.

Marketing:

M5 announcement [1] says 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4. I guess in the lab?

Both iPad and MBP M5 [2][3] say "delivering up to 3.5x the AI performance". But all the examples of AI (in [3]), they are 1.2-2.3X faster than M4. So where this 3.5X is coming from? What tests did Apple do to show that?

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1. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-th...

2. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unveils-new-14-...

3. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-introduces-the-...

> macOS 26.0 is continuing to appear more often with 28.61% as of end of September 2025. In our dataset, it had a spike to almost 40% in the middle of September, but came back a bit after that.

Compare to macOS 15 which exactly one year ago had 50% of the market share.

Obviously, it is just a subset. But the drop from 40 to 30% is pretty significant even for that subset. (Based on https://telemetrydeck.com/platforms/swift/ - 6,280 apps use it, but that includes macOS and iOS apps)

PS. I am a macOS indie app developer, but I personally do not use TelemetryDeck and I am not in any way related to them. Just found this data being really interesting, so decided to share.

FYI: found information here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748

Can anybody explain what is behind this statement? Tried to google, could not find much.

I have been using Apple Watch since series 0. I believe I switched from Garmin fenix 3. I feel like at that time Fenix had a lot of issues, I remember there were some about the maps, maybe they did not even had them at that time. And I was really into hiking. So thought that Apple Watch could be a better watch. Workouts were nice, listening music from the watch was a good addition.

I have not tried new fenix watches. And I would assume they are the same good as Apple Watches as well. But I do like my Apple Watch Ultra (2 or 3, whatever was released this year)

Sorry, I guess I was just reading about them, and went to the original blog post published on 2025-03-18 https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...

I was able to develop apps for Garmin Fenix 3, which was released in 2015 https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/160512/#specs it already supported building apps for the watch. They also had a funny name for the language they built, something like "Gorilla language" or something similar.

EDIT: found it, they call it Monkey-C https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/monkey-c/

Pebble does not have GPS at all. You don't have to use GPS on the watch, if you don't need to. You have an option to choose to use it, if you want to. Garmin watches ~2 weeks just as a smart watch, 8-50 hours with GPS on. But you will not have it on, unless you need it for a specific workout.

> No smartwatch on the market since the original Pebble watches offers this combination of features…until today!

Is that a lie? What about Garmin Watches?

Sure Google/Samsung/Apple Watches are not "Long battery life", because they are not "Always on e-paper screen", but I feel like Garmin Watches are.

Obviously some Garmin Watches are pretty expensive, like Fenix (I have not used it since I switched to Apple Watch), but there are ~200USD watches as well https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/741137/ with 2 weeks battery life, custom apps, screens, and even GPS.

The main concern for me, why this post is not flagged yet.

As for your question. This issue exists forever. If you can build something in a few hours, somebody else can too. If your idea is unique, maybe spend a bit more time to actually ship a product, not MVP.

I have seen this post a few hours ago on Reddit. Now I see it here at HN… Now I assume it is just a way for somebody to bring a lot of attention to their app. Nothing else. OP has a great way to promote, upvote their posts.

Just to explain, their app can be written in 24 hours, maybe in 4 hours with some vibe coding. This app does not provide more information than System Information app on macOS. And we are talking about it on HN. So yes, this is clearly to bring attention to the app, and get more installs.

I am surprised this submission has not been flagged.

Very good point. I actually had to check my blog/personal website - yes I do not use any JS as well (other than google analytics)

Maybe just use http://vanilla-js.com

Something is happening right now at Apple, as I have seen another post on reddit about that (could not find it), where people complained about their Dev Accounts were banned as well, when they even did not have any apps, just used dev accounts to notarize apps for themselves.

It does suck, A LOT

If you are talking about Russia, the taxes are so hidden, paid by the corporations, and Gov is taking oil money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Russia, compare to Kuwait where people getting pensions from exporting oil. Not saying Russia is better or worse, just different ways of grabbing money from common folks, and making them feel better. It was always such a common thing, when Russians go to Europe on vacation - and find how clean and nice everything else is - they say "well we pay 13% of taxes, not 50%", which makes every Russian feel so much better.

I don't believe we are care so much about the icon, when the whole redesign of macOS is so bad. So much wasted space for rounded corners and gigantic buttons on toolbars.

I have been storing shell history in SQLite since 2017 [1]. I have always been a heavy shell user, with the worst memory. So having all the history stored and backed up was very useful for me. At the time when I became a full-time macOS user, I built a ShellHistory app for macOS [2], with full-text search, notebooks, and sync over iCloud (with advanced data protection [3]).

I tried to contact Atuin authors to see if I could also integrate ShellHistory with their servers, but at that time it seemed like they did not support third-party clients, and the API was not documented.

I highly recommend using tools like Atuin and ShellHistory, at this point I have 136,000 records since 2017. My shell history is the best documentation for me. If I need to do a `kubectl --raw` API call, and don't remember exactly how to write it, I just search for `kubectl raw` and get some results from the history, don't remember some advanced `git rebase`, just search the history for it.

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- [1] https://www.outcoldman.com/en/archive/2017/07/19/dbhist/

- [2] https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/

- [3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756

Edit: fixed formatting

Comparing to Docker for Mac. Running on MBA M2. Building a 5GB image (packaging enterprise software).

Docker for Mac builds it in 4 minutes.

container tool... 17 minutes. Maybe even more. And I did set the cpu and memory for the builder as well to higher number than defaults (similar what Docker for Mac is set for). And in reality it is not the build stage, but "=> exporting to oci image format" that takes forever.

Running containers - have not seen any issues yet.

please please please, everyone, submit feedback at https://www.apple.com/feedback/

I was ok with the system settings redesign, could get used to it. But this whole new design is a different level of bad.

Not sure what exactly is happening, but feels very slow. Builds are taking way longer. Tried to run builder with -c and -m to add more CPU and memory.

I believe the OP was talking about the personal projects. Not startups or people who want to make a trillion dollar businesses. I believe there is different mentality behind those.

Not true. There are stories. Sublime Text is one of them. I am sure author of that project made good chunk of money. It used to be the most popular text editor for a while (based on StackOverlow).

I personally have another example. Own MM B2B.

I really hope that they will be forced to change "approval" to "verified" process.

So most companies/devs will be able to just publish on App Store, and apple can after that "verify" that the app confirms with their standards.

When you have a hammer in your hand everything looks like a nail.

Developing without the knowledge what LLM writes is dangerous. For me having LLM as a tool is like having a few Junior Developers around, that I can advise and work with. If I have a complicated logic that I need to write - I write it. After I wrote it, I can ask LLM to review it, it might be good to find some corner cases in some places. When I need to "move things from one bucket to another", like call API and save to DB - that is a perfect task for LLM, that I can easily review after.

At the same time, LLM is able to write pretty good complicated logic as well for my side projects. I might need to give it a few hints, but the results are amazing.