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Claude hits No 2 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection (cnbc.com)
Anthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute (techcrunch.com)
Show HN: Free, open-source native macOS client for di.fm (github.com)
I built a menu bar app for streaming DI.FM internet radio on macOS. Swift&#x2F;SwiftUI, no Electron.<p>The existing options for DI.FM on desktop are either the web player (yet another browser tab) or unofficial Electron wrappers that idle at 200+ MB of RAM to play an audio stream. This sits in the m...
Bad Apple but it's a dynamic boids simulation (priyavkaneria.com)
Apple's Rosetta 2 for Linux VM hides the CPU and kernel arch info (blog.inoki.cc)
My iPhone Blue Up (techinch.com)
Apple 'accidentally' enabled Age Verification in the UK (old.reddit.com)
Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts (robservatory.com)
Show HN: AIQuotaBar – See Claude/ChatGPT usage limits in your macOS menu bar (github.com)
Why Objective-C (inessential.com)
Claude just jumped to #2 on the iOS App Store (xcancel.com)
Move over, Apple: Meet alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere (techcrunch.com)
How to Remove ChatGPT from Apple Intelligence (trustedreviews.com)
How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac (arstechnica.com)
Show HN: DiskFree – Find what's blocking your macOS disk and eject it (getdiskfree.github.io)
Show HN: Notemac++ – A Notepad++-inspired code editor for macOS and the web (github.com)
The fix to the iPhone Antennagate was 20 bytes (2025) (mastoreader.io)
West Virginia's Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free (techdirt.com)
AdaptiveCpp's new Metal backend to support CUDA dialect on Apple GPUs (github.com)
Ask HN: Apple locked me out of the developer program for a technical error
I recently tried to verify my identity to enroll in the Apple Developer program, but the Developer app kept giving me errors like &quot;Your identity couldn&#x27;t be verified because the image you submitted is unclear or obscured.&quot; or &quot;The photo of your ID didn&#x27;t upload.&quot;<p>Afte...
Show HN: DumpCleaner – Native macOS/iPadOS app to filter SQL dumps (dumpcleaner.app)
Apple removes environmental metrics from executive pay (latimes.com)
Show HN: My iPhone notifies me about cloud outages before they blow up here (apps.apple.com)
I was sick of finding out a cloud provider was down when casually doomscrolling on X in the middle of work. So I built Pingy as a fun side project, it sends me a push notification whenever a cloud provider is experiencing an outage or a degradation.<p>AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Stripe, OpenAI, Supabas...
Show HN: Yeethook, Enriched App Store Connect Webhooks to Slack (yeethook.com)
Hey HN, I built Yeethook (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yeethook.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yeethook.com&#x2F;</a>) to solve a problem that bugged me every day as an iOS developer: having no real-time visibility into what&#x27;s happening in App Store Connect.<p>The problem: To...
Apple built hypertension notifications for Apple Watch (computerworld.com)
Show HN: SnapMyApp – App Store screenshot maker with Quick and Advanced editing (snapmyapp.com)
It’s still a work in progress, so I’m sharing early for feedback.<p>What I think is different from most tools: it has a Quick mode for speed and an Advanced mode for full control, so you can either generate fast or fine-tune details (canvas, layers, frame, screenshot, background) in one place. It’s ...
Leave big tech behind How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more (theguardian.com)
Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see (arstechnica.com)
The Making of Knowledge Navigator (Apple, 1987) (dubberly.com)
Apple Magic TouchstreamLP: Using the Apple Magic Trackpad as Keyboard (github.com)