Apple / macOS / iOS - Lobster Roll

Ladybird Browser is no longer pursuing Swift adoption (github.com)

HN 6 pts 1 comments by sam_ Feb 17, 2026 Web Development Apple / macOS / iOS thread

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)

HN 1182 pts 924 comments by to3k Feb 17, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS (forth.com)

HN 40 pts 16 comments by tosh Feb 17, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OS Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Show HN: CoolWulf AI – A personal AI assistant built in Go, optimized for macOS (coolwulfai.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by coolwulf Feb 17, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Hey HN,<p>I've been building CoolWulf AI (<a href="https://coolwulfai.com" rel="nofollow">https://coolwulfai.com</a>), a self-hosted personal AI assistant. After seeing OpenClaw blow up, I wanted to share what I've been working on — a different approach to the same prob...

Apple issues warning to all 1.8B iPhone users over spyware attack (dailymail.co.uk)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by Bender Feb 17, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta (macrumors.com)

HN 12 pts 0 comments by contact9879 Feb 17, 2026 Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Show HN: Krea iPad – real-time editing model with Apple Pencil input (twitter.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by dvrp Feb 17, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

It does not run locally for now. Distillation of models is not enough to run at 7-15 FPS in terms of throughput—also, battery life suffers too.

More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness (lapcatsoftware.com)

HN 47 pts 10 comments by JumpCrisscross Feb 17, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Mobile Safari web pages are severely limited by memory (lapcatsoftware.com)

HN 5 pts 1 comments by akyuu Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Get ready for new Macs and iPads: Apple announces Special Experience on March 4 (arstechnica.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by rbanffy Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Apple security bounties slashed as Mac malware grows (9to5mac.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by akyuu Feb 16, 2026 Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Apple introduces a new video podcast experience on Apple Podcasts (apple.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by soheilpro Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS Internet / Digital Culture thread

It's time for Apple to let go of 60Hz displays (9to5mac.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by SunshineTheCat Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish (macrumors.com)

HN 39 pts 6 comments by akyuu Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Show HN: Axel – native macOS app with a Rust CLI to orchestrate agents (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by fmerian Feb 16, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Apple Discussions: Access Denied (tinyapps.org)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by speckx Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Show HN: Claude Battery – usage at a glance. A minimalist macOS menu bar widget (github.com)

HN 1 pts 4 comments by Reebz Feb 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Hi HN, this is nothing fancy, but a tool I built for myself as a minimalist way to track usage. Also (and probably more importantly), colleagues who are marketers, writers, designers, and other non-engineering backgrounds who are/becoming power users of Claude Cowork or Claude Code and needed t...

Apple acquires Israeli audio AI startup Q.ai (reuters.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by kwar13 Feb 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Apple / macOS / iOS Productivity / Career / Business thread

Sourdine – open-source macOS app for meeting transcription with 100% local AI (angelo-lima.fr)

HN 2 pts 3 comments by llingelo Feb 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread

I tried running Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac and regretted it (msn.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by smurda Feb 16, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OS Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Show HN: Claude Rate Widget Native macOS Widget to Monitor Claude Code Limits (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by hulryung Feb 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread

I built a free, open-source macOS WidgetKit app that shows your Claude Code / Claude Max rate limits at a glance.<p>If you use Claude Code heavily, you've probably been surprised by rate limits mid-session. I kept losing track of how close I was to hitting the cap, so I made a desktop widg...

Show HN: SkillDeck – macOS app to manage skills across multiple AI agents (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by crossoverjie Feb 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Apple / macOS / iOS thread

macOS Accessibility Inspector (developer.apple.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by keepamovin Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Show HN: cc-hdrm v1.3 – macOS menu bar app that tracks your Claude subscription

HN 2 pts 1 comments by rajish Feb 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Apple / macOS / iOS thread

I built a menu-bar utility for Claude Code users who want to view their remaining token headroom without checking the web dashboard. It polls the Anthropic usage API (not the chat API, so no tokens are spent) and displays your remaining capacity with burn-rate indicators.<p><pre><code> v1.3 adds do...

Apple's upcoming low-cost MacBook will come in 'fun colors,' launch next month (9to5mac.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by thunderbong Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Show HN: MLX-Ruby – Ruby Bindings for Apple's MLX ML Framework (github.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by skryl Feb 16, 2026 Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Hi HN, I ported the Python MLX bindings to Ruby (<a href="https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx</a>).<p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/skryl/mlx-ruby" rel="nofollow">https://gith...

Sync Apple Notes to Blog Using Shortcuts and GitHub Pages (docs.moire.blog)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by aerisz Feb 16, 2026 Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Internet / Digital Culture thread

Show HN: IconRulesAgent – Customize macOS App Icons (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by geoff1560 Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

A little app that lets you customize app icons on MacOS by sticking files in a folder. Yes, I know you can do this with "Get Info", but I wanted it automated.

Apple Launching New 'Sales Coach' App (macrumors.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by mgh2 Feb 16, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Ladybird un-chooses Swift as its successor language to C++

~ 43 pts 17 comments by unknown Feb 15, 2026 ~compweb_developmentopen_sourceprogramming_languages Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread