Top Hackernews posts from eclecticlight.co

1. How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS (eclecticlight.co)
   512 points by giuliomagnifico almost 55 years | 410 comments
2. The Elephant at WWDC (eclecticlight.co)
   470 points by ingve almost 55 years | 205 comments
3. The Perils of M1 Ownership (eclecticlight.co)
   350 points by ingve almost 55 years | 263 comments
4. M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode (eclecticlight.co)
   348 points by giuliomagnifico almost 55 years | 231 comments
5. Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System (eclecticlight.co)
   310 points by zdw almost 55 years | 324 comments
6. Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? (eclecticlight.co)
   308 points by ingve almost 55 years | 247 comments
7. M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2 (eclecticlight.co)
   272 points by ingve almost 55 years | 318 comments
8. PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma (eclecticlight.co)
   269 points by homarp almost 55 years | 151 comments
9. What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space? (eclecticlight.co)
   262 points by ingve almost 55 years | 283 comments
10. How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs (eclecticlight.co)
    257 points by ingve almost 55 years | 105 comments
11. macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance (eclecticlight.co)
    251 points by pjmlp almost 55 years | 241 comments
12. Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder? (eclecticlight.co)
    245 points by tagawa almost 55 years | 175 comments
13. How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? (eclecticlight.co)
    237 points by todsacerdoti almost 55 years | 168 comments
14. macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported (eclecticlight.co)
    231 points by ingve almost 55 years | 162 comments
15. M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores (eclecticlight.co)
    220 points by ingve almost 55 years | 400 comments
16. M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance (eclecticlight.co)
    219 points by ingve almost 55 years | 232 comments
17. Sonoma's log gets briefer and more secretive (eclecticlight.co)
    214 points by ingve almost 55 years | 100 comments
18. What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips? (eclecticlight.co)
    211 points by zdw almost 55 years | 305 comments
19. How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people (eclecticlight.co)
    209 points by mpweiher almost 55 years | 266 comments
20. How to estimate an SSD’s working life (eclecticlight.co)
    209 points by ingve almost 55 years | 178 comments
21. Using a Mac without a network connection (eclecticlight.co)
    206 points by frizlab almost 55 years | 153 comments
22. External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs (eclecticlight.co)
    200 points by zdw almost 55 years | 177 comments
23. The hunt for the M1’s neural engine (eclecticlight.co)
    196 points by ingve almost 55 years | 97 comments
24. How macOS manages M1 CPU cores (eclecticlight.co)
    195 points by ingve almost 55 years | 59 comments
25. Home truths about macOS (eclecticlight.co)
    190 points by ingve almost 55 years | 174 comments
26. macOS has become more reliable (eclecticlight.co)
    179 points by spideymans almost 55 years | 148 comments
27. How do you know when macOS detects and remediates malware? (eclecticlight.co)
    175 points by zdw almost 55 years | 111 comments
28. macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel (eclecticlight.co)
    173 points by ingve almost 55 years | 146 comments
29. The M2 is more advanced than it seemed (eclecticlight.co)
    171 points by ingve almost 55 years | 195 comments
30. How does iCloud work? Plus a new version of Cirrus (eclecticlight.co)
    170 points by janandonly almost 55 years | 64 comments
31. Power, frequency, management: how M1 E cores win (eclecticlight.co)
    168 points by ingve almost 55 years | 86 comments
32. When an M1 Mac mini is faster than an M1 Pro: contention and core allocation (eclecticlight.co)
    166 points by ingve almost 55 years | 28 comments
33. How Secure Boot Works on M1 Series Macs (eclecticlight.co)
    162 points by zdw almost 55 years | 110 comments
34. System settings that aren’t in System Settings (eclecticlight.co)
    161 points by goranmoomin almost 55 years | 117 comments
35. Apple has just released the first Rapid Security Response for Ventura (eclecticlight.co)
    156 points by Amorymeltzer almost 55 years | 104 comments
36. Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy (eclecticlight.co)
    146 points by akyuu almost 55 years | 79 comments
37. M1 Icestorm cores can still perform well (eclecticlight.co)
    146 points by ingve almost 55 years | 133 comments
38. A brief history of APFS (2022) (eclecticlight.co)
    138 points by tim_sw almost 55 years | 123 comments
39. Explainer: .DS_Store Files (eclecticlight.co)
    136 points by serhack_ almost 55 years | 90 comments
40. M3 CPU cores have become more versatile (eclecticlight.co)
    133 points by ingve almost 55 years | 166 comments
41. Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM? (eclecticlight.co)
    126 points by ingve almost 55 years | 133 comments
42. War in Ukraine: Marshall Mud is winning again (eclecticlight.co)
    121 points by mrzool almost 55 years | 16 comments
43. Evaluating M3 Pro CPU Cores: General Performance (eclecticlight.co)
    119 points by ingve almost 55 years | 58 comments
44. Why can’t you just roll back from a bad macOS update? (eclecticlight.co)
    118 points by ingve almost 55 years | 114 comments
45. Why good external SSDs are faster with Apple Silicon (eclecticlight.co)
    117 points by ingve almost 55 years | 55 comments
46. Whatever happened to QuickTime? (eclecticlight.co)
    116 points by ingve almost 55 years | 101 comments
47. Don’t Trust Activity Monitor on M1 Macs (eclecticlight.co)
    112 points by KubikPixel almost 55 years | 28 comments
48. Code in ARM Assembly: Registers Explained (eclecticlight.co)
    108 points by ingve almost 55 years | 53 comments
49. How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling (2021) (eclecticlight.co)
    107 points by gtufano almost 55 years | 61 comments
50. Monterey’s memory leak and how to avoid it (eclecticlight.co)
    105 points by llimllib almost 55 years | 78 comments
51. Making the most of Apple Silicon power: 2 Core capabilities (2022) (eclecticlight.co)
    102 points by nateb2022 almost 55 years | 22 comments
52. Has Apple sounded the last POST? (eclecticlight.co)
    100 points by ingve almost 55 years | 65 comments
53. When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? (eclecticlight.co)
    99 points by ingve almost 55 years | 188 comments
54. Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today (eclecticlight.co)
    99 points by ingve almost 55 years | 38 comments
55. How to compare two PDF documents (eclecticlight.co)
    95 points by ingve almost 55 years | 30 comments
56. Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live? (eclecticlight.co)
    92 points by GavinAnderegg almost 55 years | 100 comments
57. Monterey’s Finder Find memory leak may not be fixed (eclecticlight.co)
    91 points by zdw almost 55 years | 54 comments
58. macOS virtualisation refactored and sandboxed in Viable updates (eclecticlight.co)
    89 points by zdw almost 55 years | 38 comments
59. Power on Tap: Dynamic control of P cores in M1 chips (eclecticlight.co)
    89 points by ingve almost 55 years | 5 comments
60. Ventura has changed app quarantine with a new xattr (eclecticlight.co)
    87 points by rcarmo almost 55 years | 63 comments
61. Multitasking, parallel processing, and concurrency in Swift (eclecticlight.co)
    85 points by ingve almost 55 years | 40 comments
62. M1 Macs may lag behind (eclecticlight.co)
    83 points by ingve almost 55 years | 79 comments
63. Scary Hasty (eclecticlight.co)
    80 points by GavinAnderegg almost 55 years | 30 comments
64. What should we know about APFS special files? (eclecticlight.co)
    74 points by ingve almost 55 years | 23 comments
65. Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly (eclecticlight.co)
    73 points by janandonly almost 55 years | 43 comments
66. From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud (eclecticlight.co)
    73 points by ingve almost 55 years | 33 comments
67. How Good Is Monterey’s Visual Look Up? (eclecticlight.co)
    73 points by ingve almost 55 years | 31 comments
68. Apple’s big test of data integrity (eclecticlight.co)
    72 points by headalgorithm almost 55 years | 41 comments
69. Code in ARM Assembly: Flow, pipelines and performance (eclecticlight.co)
    65 points by ingve almost 55 years | 1 comments
70. An A to Z of keys and keyboards: (macOS) Startup and login (eclecticlight.co)
    63 points by rcarmo almost 55 years | 8 comments
71. Booting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve (eclecticlight.co)
    63 points by zdw almost 55 years | 59 comments
72. Should you remove duplicate files? (eclecticlight.co)
    62 points by ingve almost 55 years | 61 comments
73. Time has run out on Time Capsules (eclecticlight.co)
    62 points by ingve almost 55 years | 77 comments
74. macOS Sonoma is setting records for update size (eclecticlight.co)
    61 points by ingve almost 55 years | 100 comments
75. Running tasks on E cores can use a third of the energy of P cores (eclecticlight.co)
    60 points by zdw almost 55 years | 41 comments
76. Does Apple maintain APFS in older macOS? (eclecticlight.co)
    53 points by ingve almost 55 years | 105 comments
77. How can you trust a disk to write data? (eclecticlight.co)
    53 points by pcr910303 almost 55 years | 34 comments
78. Apple Silicon: A little help from friends and co-processors (eclecticlight.co)
    53 points by ingve almost 55 years | 5 comments
79. Code in ARM Assembly: Working with Pointers (eclecticlight.co)
    51 points by ingve almost 55 years | discuss