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. It strips away the spatial complexity whilst keeping genuine strategic depth, and the browser-based implementation is impressively slick. With 850 upvotes, it's clear the developer crowd appreciates elegant constraint. And finally, a developer has built Starfling, an endless orbital slingshot game packed entirely into a single HTML file. No frameworks, no build tools, just one file you can open in any browser. It's a lovely reminder that sometimes the most impressive engineering is knowing what to leave out. That's your daily byte. Have a great day. Until next time. Stories covered Filing the corners off my MacBooks — Hacker News 1D Chess — Hacker News Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file — Hacker News