macOS 26's Cut Corners
43 points
7 hours ago
| 7 comments
| daringfireball.net
| HN
rowanseymour
2 hours ago
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As much as I'm enjoying all these articles about bad MacOS UI design.. people really be refusing to upgrade over this? I'm sitting here on Tahoe happily resizing windows all day (the cursor change lets you know you're grabbing the correct part).
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russelg
13 minutes ago
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It is but one of the straws that broke the camels back.
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hyperhello
1 hour ago
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There is always a single perfect flaw in every apple product release for everyone on social media to align on. Apple may put them there on purpose.
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geoffeg
1 hour ago
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I see no real reason to upgrade, there's no new features that interest me. Combined with the UI issues, why would I upgrade?
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1stranger
1 minute ago
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1. it's not that bad 2. you'll probably get used to it 3. gotta get it over with sometime
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spider-mario
1 hour ago
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> I think everything about the 10.7 Lion GUI looks better than the 10.6 Snow Leopard GUI — except for the omission of the resize affordance in the corner.

I think 10.6 looked way better. fite me

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stephen_g
4 hours ago
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I’m very glad I decided to keep my MacBook Pro on the previous version, but it’s irritating that I now seem to need to turn on ‘Beta Releases’ to get any other update but 26.x. And if you click ‘Other Updates’ (where the Safari update is, if you want to update that without restarting the computer) it tries to trick you by also selecting Tahoe by default.

That’s the kind of behaviour I’d grown used to from Microsoft over the last decade but something I’d thought Apple was still above until the last little while…

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netsharc
5 hours ago
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Related, 2640 points yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864
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sho_hn
4 hours ago
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Gruber's take is nothing but a blog spam rehash that adds nothing at twice the word count, too.
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skylurk
3 hours ago
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Gruber is HN's Nickelback.

But I appreciated how he reminded me of the grippy-strips.

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oniony
1 hour ago
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It's really not a big issue: the pointer changes to a resize arrow when you're in the right place, so it's pretty clear when you've got it right.
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muro
48 minutes ago
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Just tried with Lightroom - sometimes the pointer changes, sometimes it doesn't and stays as the normal arrow. Sometimes it allows resizing in height and width, other times only one of them.
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MarleTangible
5 hours ago
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The illustration with the breakfast plate is a really good example.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-...

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trashymctrash
2 hours ago
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Is „Dyehoe“ in the title a typo? Otherwise I don’t get it
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sirwhinesalot
2 hours ago
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It's a pun, look up Alan Dye :)
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