Today's Show HN wave is Apple-Silicon-native
Today's Show HN wave is Apple-Silicon-native. @shivampkumar's TRELLIS.2 Mac port leads at 194 points; @teamchong's Prompt-to-Excalidraw running Gemma-4 E2B inside a 3.1GB browser sandbox hits 152; @ragojose's Shader Lab (a "Photoshop for shaders") holds 155. Three distinct wedges — on-device 3D generation, browser-side LLM agents, GPU tooling — all shipped by individual makers.
Copy @shivampkumar's shape — pick one Nvidia-required ML model with clear commercial value (TRELLIS.2 for 3D, whisper-large-v4 for audio, SAM 3 for segmentation), port to MLX/Metal, charge $9–19 one-time. The port is the moat.
Apple Silicon ports have a 12–18 month halving curve — Apple itself usually ships a first-party equivalent in MLX Examples, and when Apple's repo absorbs your use case your paid version is dead.