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A MacBook Pro beside a Surface Book, both open on a white surface, USB-C ports in view

Running a coding agent fully on Apple Silicon, no cloud, is now an off-the-shelf stack

A popular Hacker News how-to walked through a fully local coding agent on Apple Silicon. Here's the realistic 2026 stack: runner, model, and harness.

Apple Mac mini desktop computer on a clean background, showing the M4-era chassis.

Apple·last month

Apple killed the $599 Mac mini. The cheapest one is now $799 with 512GB.

Apple quietly pulled the 256GB Mac mini from its store on May 1. Tim Cook had warned the day before that demand was outpacing supply for months.

Notepad++ for Mac project page hero showing the ported macOS code editor

Open Source·last month

An unofficial Notepad++ port finally landed on Mac. Don Ho didn't write it.

Andrey Letov shipped a native macOS Notepad++ port as a universal binary with the original Scintilla engine and a new Cocoa UI. It's GPL, free, and unaffiliated with Don Ho.

Screenshot of the updated OpenAI Codex Mac app with background computer-use panel

AI·2 months ago

OpenAI's Codex now drives your Mac, not just your code

OpenAI shipped a Codex update that can pilot desktop apps with a cursor, generate images in-line, and run parallel agents. It's the opening move in a real Claude Code fight.

Google Gemini app running on a Mac desktop showing the mini chat interface

AI·2 months ago

Google Gemini finally has a Mac app, and it's gunning for ChatGPT's desktop lead

Google shipped a native Swift Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing, voice, and Deep Research. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and how it stacks up.