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Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps

Article URL: https://maps.apple.com/frame?center=33.723388%2C35.614698&span=1.983925%2C4.004193

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680

Points: 29

# Comments: 2

Are sugar substitutes healthier than the real thing?

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/04/10/are-sugar-substitutes-healthier-than-the-real-thing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742460

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS

Hi HN!

I recently switched from a Fedora/GNOME laptop to a MacBook Air. My old setup served me well as a portable workstation, but I’ve started traveling more while working remotely and needed something with similar performance but better battery life. The main thing I missed was a simple taskbar that shows the windows in the current workspace instead of a Dock that mixes everything together.

I built boringBar so I would not have to use the Dock. It shows only the windows in the current Space, lets you switch Spaces by scrolling on the bar, and adds a desktop switcher so you can jump directly to any Space. You can also hide the system Dock, pin apps, preview windows with thumbnails, and launch apps from a searchable menu (I keep Spotlight disabled because for some reason it uses a lot of system resources on my machine).

I’ve been dogfooding it for a few months now, and it finally felt polished enough to share.

It’s for people who like macOS but want window management to feel a bit more like GNOME, Windows, or a traditional taskbar. It’s also for people like me who wanted an easier transition to macOS, especially now that Windows feels increasingly user-hostile.

I’d love feedback on the UX, bugs, and whether this solves the same Dock/Spaces pain for anyone else.

P.S. It might also appeal to people who feel nostalgic for the GNOME 2 desktop of yore. I started my Linux journey with it, and boringBar brings back some of that feeling for me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742200

Points: 50

# Comments: 30

Reading Is Magic

Article URL: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742002

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’

Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company's Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April […]

X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier