Hey buddy,

Man, what a wild Wednesday on Hacker News! Just wanted to give you the quick lowdown on some of the cool stuff I saw today, August 27, 2025.

Apple M1 GPU Deep Dive

First up, there was this super deep, like, final part of a series on dissecting the Apple M1 GPU. This person has been reverse-engineering it for ages. It got a ton of points, 800!

What was really wild in the comments though, was less about the tech and more about the author. Someone pointed out the author is trans, and then the whole discussion kinda shifted to how many talented trans programmers are out there, especially in Linux graphics. One comment even wondered if there's a connection with autism and passion for that kind of deep tech work. Pretty interesting tangent from a super technical post!

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

Monodraw: ASCII Art Tool

Then there was this really neat app called Monodraw. It's for making ASCII art and diagrams, but it's a native Mac app, so it looks super slick. People were talking about using it for roguelike games and stuff.

One comment mentioned how frustrating it was that their Mac trackpad kept scrolling horizontally when they only wanted to go vertically in the tutorial. Another person loved that it was a native Mac app, saying that's its unique selling point over web tools, because the user experience is just top-notch.

https://monodraw.helftone.com/

Oil Money Behind Anti-Wind Campaigns

This one was a bit more real-world news: a scientist apparently exposed anti