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DockFlow - Switch between setups & dock presets in an instant

Hey everybody! [DockFlow](https://dockflowapp.io/?ref=reddit) lets you switch setups in an instant. All the apps you need launch, the rest close and disappear. Perfect if you switch between contexts / projects / different types of work a lot # Core Features: \- Switch setups in an instant using hotkeys, or with the menu bar app \- Launch specific projects in your IDE or browser profiles for that preset \- Lock the Dock to a specific screen \- Add apps, folders, URLs, dock spacers to your Dock \- Integration with Apple Shortcuts & Focus Modes # Comparison: [DockFlow](https://dockflowapp.io/?ref=reddit) was the first app of it's kind. It is mature and stable, developed and improved according to user requests and feedback. 3 Months after DockFlow launched, several competitor apps surfaced, most of them are no longer maintained. As a small group of indie devs working specifically in the macOS space, we are here to stay (DockFlow is our first app, currently one of five). # Pricing: \- 1 One year access - €14.99 \- 1 Device Lifetime - €29.99 \- 2 Device Lifetime - €39.99 \- 3 Device Lifetime - €49.99 \- 5 Device Lifetime - €69.99 30-day money-back guarantee if you're not happy with it :-)

Show HN: Compute:Arena – Community submitted local AI benchmarks

Benchmarking AI models on real hardware is way harder than it looks. Between AMD, NVIDIA, Apple Silicon, Intel, and Qualcomm, plus hundreds of open source models and quants, getting the test bench right is a challenge. So we're making it dead simple. We're open sourcing our internal testing harness. Anyone can run open source models on their own hardware and submit results to the public leaderboard. It's live now, with a few hundred submissions already. If you want to know how a specific model performs on a given hardware, chances are the data is already there. This is the same tool we use internally to track model and chip performance. Try it out and tell us what to improve

Beaconly - Now free

Hey hey strangers, solo dev of Beaconly here. I've spent couple years on it, a Mac menu bar app that keeps your Jira, Asana, GitHub, AWS status, whatever, one click away instead of buried in tabs. It can also notify you when something changes (like ticket assigned to / removed etc.). It was a subscription. I'm not fond of those myself btw. With family and health taking priority I cant give it the time it needs and justify it, and Im rubbish at marketing anyway, so I've made it free. All of it, unlimited, no account. No tracking beyond a ping on launch so I know how many people still use it and what version. * App Store: [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beaconly/id1520138793](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beaconly/id1520138793) * Direct download (signed, auto-updating DMG): [https://beaconly.app](https://beaconly.app) In a few months I want to add a way for people to write and publish their own extensions, and with that probably open source maybe it will get some nice features with that. **Until then, enjoy**

PeakHour 6: real-time Internet monitoring in your Mac menu bar, now with an on-device AI advisor

Hi r/macapps 👋 I'm Ed, I make PeakHour, and version 6 was released today! 🥳 Some of you have been here long enough to remember where this started. In 2012 I posted a tiny app called Examinet: it read SNMP counters off your router, drew them in the menu bar, and cost $2.99. It became PeakHour in 2013, PeakHour 4 in 2017, PeakHour 5 last year. Fourteen years later I'm still building the same app, mostly because I still want it on my own Mac. **Problem** Your call stutters. Your Mac says nothing. Was it your Wi-Fi, your router, your ISP, or the guy on the other end sitting in a basement? PeakHour lives in the menu bar and watches all of it live: the Wi-Fi link, the router, the ISP, and the path out to the rest of the internet. It keeps the history too, so when the internet falls over at 2pm you can point at the exact minute. Weirdly satisfying on a call with your provider. **What's new in 6** https://preview.redd.it/uje4htmidzph1.png?width=1508&format=png&auto=webp&s=278827a6adc68cca9699b4057ab5b0824c769ca9 * Built for macOS 27 Golden Gate. Liquid Glass dashboard, fluid sphere gauges, the lot. Still happy on macOS 14.6 or above if you are in no rush to update. * AI Network Advisor. It grades your connection A+ to F, then says why in plain English, including whether calls, gaming and streaming will be smooth. The numbers are your own measurements. The words are written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence, so nothing about your network goes anywhere. * Wi-Fi Intelligence: signal,

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds

Show HN: A simple Mac extension for recent screenshots

Had my very own "personal software" moment recently. Apple's screenshot experience is god awful, you take a screenshot and then race to the destination where you need to drag and drop it (messages, etc.) Asked codex to solve this and it did! hit cmd shift s and a drawer opens up with most recent screenshots. Fully drag and droppable.

@93feetofsmoke In OBS: Add Source → macOS Screen Capture → select Ableton. On newer macOS versions, OBS can capture the Mac/app audio directly. • Video Capture Device = webcam • Audio Input Capture = microphone Now you can record Ableton +

DAW audio + your face + commentary all at once.

Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?

In your opinion, do you buy into the panic about AI eliminating humanity or potentially disrupting and taking down the internet? Is this a marketing ploy? Give me your best thoughts on this most recent call for AI slowdown.

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds

Show HN: A simple Mac extension for recent screenshots

Had my very own "personal software" moment recently. Apple's screenshot experience is god awful, you take a screenshot and then race to the destination where you need to drag and drop it (messages, etc.) Asked codex to solve this and it did! hit cmd shift s and a drawer opens up with most recent screenshots. Fully drag and droppable.

@93feetofsmoke In OBS: Add Source → macOS Screen Capture → select Ableton. On newer macOS versions, OBS can capture the Mac/app audio directly. • Video Capture Device = webcam • Audio Input Capture = microphone Now you can record Ableton +

DAW audio + your face + commentary all at once.

Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?

In your opinion, do you buy into the panic about AI eliminating humanity or potentially disrupting and taking down the internet? Is this a marketing ploy? Give me your best thoughts on this most recent call for AI slowdown.

So many new people in my list! What are you all working on? I am doing primarily three things at the moment (next to working full time ofc): - Launchie - Launchpad App - Emzero - Open Source Mail client for Mac / Linux - Omaccy - My opinion

ated MacOS Setup which is super nerdy with tiling WM and all that fun stuff

I built a remote control for Apple Music

**I made an app to control Apple Music on Mac remotely from iPhone, ipad, and Apple Watch** Hey everyone! I’m an indie developer and recently released an app called Music Remote Control. I built it because I often have Apple Music playing on my Mac while I’m cooking, lying in bed, or just away from my desk, and I wanted an easy way to control it without going back to my Mac. It works with two parts: **Music Remote Control runs on your Mac alongside Apple Music**, and the free companion app on your iPhone/iPad/Watch automatically finds your Mac when they’re on the same network. Once connected, you can use the companion app to control what’s playing on your Mac. The Mac app can also be used on its own and has a **mini player, compact menu bar player, and menu bar icon-only mode**. **Comparison:** Unlike iTunes Remote, you can **search for and play music outside your library, browse Apple Music stations to discover new music, and favorite or suggest less for songs you find**. You can also control your AirPlay speakers and volume directly from the app. On iOS, there are **widgets and Live Activities** for quick playback controls. **Pricing:** The Mac app is a **one-time purchase** (only $3.99 USD / $4.99 CAD) with a free 2-week trial. The iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch companion app is completely **free**. Mac App Store: [https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/music-remote-control/id6804891190](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/music-remote-control/id6804891190) iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch: [https://app

Show HN: Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, -58.3% thinking, x1.95 speed, accuracy of xhigh

Hi everybody, we post-trained Qwen 3.8 27B to be more efficient by figuring out which tokens were linked to overthinking and penalizing them without "attacking" the reasoning length directly then fixed the accuracy with a bit of secret sauce (hint On-Policy Distillation) and achieved great results (-58% length, 1.95x speed up, <1% accuracy loss) so we wanted to open-source it and hear the feedback of the community. This is the link to the model: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;ukisai&#x2F;Swift-Qwen3.8-27b &#x2F; It's at 80k downloads in 3 days with independent evals here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wg7dd5&#x2F;ukisai_... We are also providing a Free Research Purpose API (OpenAI compatible), courtesy of Nvidia who were kind enough to provide us with the GPUs. It's limited at 5RPM. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ukisai.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;swift&#x2F;v1&#x2F;models We also made a GGUF (Q1-Q8): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;ukisai&#x2F;Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF and there's also a few nice community quants with even lower&#x2F;higher precision (Bartowski: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;bartowski&#x2F;ukisai_Swift-Qwen3.8-27b-GG... ). The community also created amazing MLX, NVFP4, W4A16 and Uncensored versions you can find on Huggingface. IMPORTANT: Our training approach is not a replacement for the reasoning effort settings, chat templates or token caps but is complementary and targets a completely separate issue (overthinking a

I kept getting lost between my macOS Spaces, wasting time. So I built SpaceJump, and 800+ people use it daily now

A while back I posted SpaceJump here, and the response carried the project further than I expected. For anyone who missed it: I work across a lot of macOS Spaces, one per project or client, each with its own apps open and arranged how I like. Every Space looks identical, so I kept swiping around hunting for the one I actually needed, and Mission Control just showed blank "Desktop 3, Desktop 4" thumbnails. So I built SpaceJump for myself. Since that last post, it really took off. It went from 200 to over 800 people using it daily, and most of what I shipped since then came straight out of the replies and emails. The regular messages from people who had been looking for this for years are why I keep refining it. **Problem it solves** Apple gives you Spaces but no way to tell them apart or switch to the right one quickly. SpaceJump fixes that: * **Name each Space** with an icon and color. Names show in the menu bar, inside Mission Control, and on external displays, so you always know which desktop is which. * **Switch fast with ⌘+0 (or other shortcut, depending on keyboard layout):** a quick picker showing all your Spaces, type to filter, or hit it again to jump back to where you came from. You can also rename a Space right there in the picker. * **Move a window to another Space without Mission Control:** grab it, hold Shift, drop it on the target Space. * **Time tracking per Space and per app,** with idle detection and CSV export if you bill by project. * **Vibe coding friendly