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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThis event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history. A lot of the time was wasted in: - Mildly funny jokes and comparison with 90's technology. - 90% of the talk was about the touch bar. - Awful demos of Photoshop & some cringy DJ. I was hoping we would see: - A new MacBook with all day battery life and touch bar, even thinner design. Ok, I understand that they are trying to consolidate their…
To any Linux users, I recently bought a fully loaded M4 MacBook pro to replace my aging Lenovo and strongly regret it. I thought I would use it for playing with LLMs, but local dev on a Mac is not fun and I still don't have it fully set up. I'll probably replace it with a framework at some point in the near future. Edit: okay, that garnered more attention than I expected, I guess I owe a qualification. 1…
For anyone else who was confused by this, it's a bump on the 15" Macbook Pro. The 13" model was updated at the same time as the Macbook launch.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38078065.
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1430
- Total comments
- 2417
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-11 | New Macbook Pro | Zaheer | 14 | 11 |
| 2015-05-19 | Apple Releases new MacBook Pros with Force Touch TrackpadFirst breakout | globuous | 91 | 125 |
| 2016-10-27 | MacBook ProBest thread | rl3 | 861 | 1713 |
| 2018-07-12 | Apple Launched New MacBook Pro Generation with 8th Generation Intel CPU | domysee | 5 | 0 |
| 2021-10-18 | New Apple MacBook Pro | csomar | 14 | 1 |
| 2023-06-05 | Apple M2 MacBook Pro 14“ & 16” | kumarvvr | 6 | 2 |
| 2023-10-31 | MacBook Pro M3 | tambourine_man | 69 | 1 |
| 2025-10-15 | M5 MacBook ProHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | tambourine_man | 370 | 564 |