Guru's Tech Bytes — April 11, 2026
Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 008, for Saturday, April the 11th, 2026. First up, a chap named Kent Walters has done what Apple never would — he's physically filing the sharp corners off his MacBooks. The post, which has racked up over 900 upvotes on Hacker News, documents his meticulous process of rounding out those notoriously sharp aluminium edges. One imagines Jony Ive weeping somewhere, though honestly, the ergonomic improvement looks rather worth it. Second, a minimalist chess variant called 1D Chess is making waves, reimagining the classic game on a single row of squares…
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