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by stephenr | 2025-06-10 05:22:23+00:00
This is a weird take to me.

VMWare Fusion very much feels like a cheap one-time port of VMWare Workstation to macOS. On a modern macOS it stands out very clearly with numerous elements that are reminiscent of the Aqua days: icon styles, the tabs-within-tabs structure, etc.

Fusion also has had some pretty horrific bugs related to guest networking causing indefinite hangs in the VM(s) at startup.

Parallels isn't always perfect sailing but put it this way: I have had a paid license for both (and VBox installed), for many years to build vagrant images, but when it comes to actually running a VM for purposes other than building an image, I almost exclusively turn to Parallels.
by muzani | 2025-06-10 05:23:10+00:00
Ah, it's AI stuff. Unfortunately, they'll beat you to death and silence you for even smiling at anyone who likes AI.

I started back with GPT-3 in 2021 when people were amused by AI and asking for more AI stuff in the feedback forms. In 2025, the feedback forms are asking for AI disclosure.

I'm surprised how much AI has been dominating Google Play though. "Talk with strangers" apps have been killed by talk with AI apps, and I wouldn't be surprised if AI girlfriend replaces dating apps in 5 years.
by anon7000 | 2025-06-10 05:24:15+00:00
Accomplish more is relative. At a large, later stage, companies become a lot more stability and long term revenue & sustainability. Which Tim Cook has absolutely excelled at. Sure, Steve was more of a tech revolutionary. But weird designs were super common under him! The Apple design language has been pretty consistent over the past decade.

I think it’s odd this thread is largely complaining about Apple taking too many risks, or making weird designs they don’t like, or being too feature-driven. The fact of the matter is that Apple has by far created the most stable tech ecosystem of any comparable company. With a very consistent design language as well.

Windows has a horrific track record (with only Windows 7 & 10 being well regarded in the past 15+ years). Android typically doesn’t support devices with major software updates past a small handful of years. Apple’s combo of privacy, long term support, and extremely consistent release cadences & design language make it a much more stable platform than practically anything else. They even did an entire hardware architecture change under our feet without downgrading the user experience in any meaningful way.

I mean whether or not you agree or like Apple’s service products like Apple Music, it is absolutely a very smart business decision to continue investing in them. Apple TV has a higher percentage of high quality content than other providers. Apple Music is at worst hardly that different than Spotify. Apple Arcade is just a way to bundle products that already exist.
by landl0rd | 2025-06-10 05:25:00+00:00
Has this been characterized in literature to any significant extent? This isn't a "challenging" question btw, I hear it repeated but wonder to what extent it's actually true vs. people's later perceptions coloring it and/or odd internal perception. The latter I think is possible because I've read anecdotes from people who say they don't feel much, yet they go from demotivated to get up and do something to sudden motivation to do lots of different things besides what they got up to do, which reads to me as overshooting the mark in terms of effect if not in matching patient's expectations of "how it should feel".
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-10 05:25:22+00:00
Yeah, the address bar in the browser in the video at 2:10–2:13 is appalling. And how they describe it!—

> it responds in real time to your content, and your input, creating a more lively experience, that we think you’ll find truly delightful.

“Infuriating” and “horrifying” would both be much more accurate words than “delightful”. Even if you liked it briefly, it would get old really quickly.

This truly is stunningly, spectacularly bad.
by lurk2 | 2025-06-10 05:25:33+00:00
Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state."

"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."

Note that this affords the freedom to relocate within, leave, and return to one’s country, not the freedom to enter into other countries in violation of their immigration laws.
by leereeves | 2025-06-10 05:27:01+00:00
It's terrifying, certainly.

One man was taken into custody for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an officer and a motorcyclist was arrested for ramming a police skirmish line.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kill-l-police-attacked-fireworks-...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said "you had people who were...attacking police officers, deputy sheriffs and causing a lot of destruction."

The 101 Freeway shut down Sunday evening two times due to protesters on an overpass throwing rocks, debris, and firecrackers at California Highway Patrol officers and vehicles.

Footage on Sunday from the CBS News Los Angeles helicopter showed that multiple windows of the police headquarters had been shattered as well.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/downtown-la-protests...
by kmarc | 2025-06-10 05:27:28+00:00
As a Hungarian, told my friends in November: "the election results, Project 2025, the newly elected president, etc... is the same old story we have already seen with Orban 10+y ago. But don't worry, the US has a much better established democracy, shit can't really go as wrong as in Eastern-Europe"

Well, I'm not so sure about that last part anymore.
by muzani | 2025-06-10 05:27:51+00:00
You ask the VCs for feedback. Being turned down isn't rejection, it's a data point. Do it early. Don't "practice" on people who don't know what they're talking about.

Often friends aren't simply polite, they just don't have the experience. They haven't invested in things that fail... heck, many won't even know a guy who invested in a failure. And when they do, it's a single data point and they'll come to some dumb conclusion like "it was losing money," as if every successful startup wasn't.
by ciberado | 2025-06-10 05:28:14+00:00
In Spain, a private company has planted almost 1 million trees in one year as what I guess is in part a marketing effort[1]. Barcelona itself counts with 1.5 million of exemplars.

So yes, you are probably right. 60K in 25 years is a PR note.

[1] https://www.iberdrola.com/press-room/news/detail/iberdrola-h...

[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/participacion/las-fotos-de-los-... (Spanish)
by blub | 2025-06-10 05:28:47+00:00
The original downvoted poster made several points, which at the time of reading all seem correct.

Covid vaccines have different risk based on sex and age. The blood clot risk of the AZ vaccine was similar to the ICU risk from Covid for under 40s. The Moderna vaccine caused heart problems for young males.

Both of these issues were downplayed by politicians and officials, but the public health system eventually worked and AZ was discarded while young males were switched to Biontech.

With ideological purges done by the fake, ideological left, which is still in power in the western EU, it’s not clear that we won’t have nonsense policies in the future, such as dictating that BLM protests are fine during Covid while everyone else must stay indoors.
by edanm | 2025-06-10 05:29:32+00:00
vim mode is far, far better than any alternative way of using a keyboard (because you don't have to ever move your hands from home row). Even without vim mode, just the vim keybindings by themselves are far better. Once I got used to using them, using a keyboard without them felt stupid.

Hence my using vim mode everywhere I can.

I also created a set of mappings to give me vim-style keybindings everywhere on the computer, so I can use vim-style bindings even within this very comment I'm typing on my browser. Obviously it doesn't support the full set of vim bindings, but just the basic movements and some other mappings (like selecting a word/sentence, backwards delete word, etc) are enough to get a huge amount of value.
by Larrikin | 2025-06-10 05:29:40+00:00
If illegal immigration is such a problem, why not fine businesses 5x salary for using the labor, for as long as it was used? There are a lot of systems in place to verify working status at this point. It eliminates any incentive to hire this cheaper labor willing to work for lower wages.

The people coming will be coming for a variety of reasons but it won't be to take the jobs of the uneducated Americans
by steine65 | 2025-06-10 05:30:19+00:00
This does feel a bit like propaganda. I'm a CPA with ex-Big4 audit experience, albeit only 4 years, and specialized in revenue rather than expenses. I just briefly read over the pwc summary of the related FASB standards covering Subtopics ASC 985-20 and ASC 350-40. It pretty much says that you expense everything on software that intended for selling until it's technologically feasible. Upgrades afterwards are capitalized, then amortized. Internal software development is capitalized. Like, if you build internal infrastructure, it likely has value, similar to PP&E. Differences is, Equipment is physical. The value of the software is the minds and time that went into it. I'm also certain that if you could prove to your auditors that your software is not worth much, you could probably expense more of the costs. This whole thread screams big tech company propaganda.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-10 05:30:40+00:00
But everyone else isn't opposed.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/2024-pre...

>In the 2024 presidential election, 73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote and 65.3% (or 154 million people) voted according to new voting and registration tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Moreover, due to the electoral college and Senate and gerrymandering of House districts, the majority is hardly needed for attain power. I bet that even in other societies, throughout time, roughly a third of the population will not react to what one of the other thirds is doing (even if they claim they don't approve in polls).
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-10 05:30:47+00:00
> And all of this just to make the whole UI white and generic.

3:30–3:45 in the video is painful. Describing “giving you an entirely new way, to personalise your experience”, while showing… white. White white white. Oh, and light tinted backgrounds to set your white on. I hope the personalisation you wanted was white.
by ravimadabhushi | 2025-06-10 05:31:09+00:00
Hey folks — I’m Ravi, a 2× founder and currently building Scalekit. Before this, I led platform and auth infrastructure at Freshworks.

Been neck-deep in auth, identity, and security for more than a decade now.

We’re seeing more and more MCP servers being spun up to expose tools and workflows to AI agents. But honestly most of them are still unauthenticated or worse, they reuse agent tokens across systems.

This is clearly a problem because the March 2025 updated the MCP spec to now formally mandates OAuth 2.1 as the auth standard for MCP servers.

Also, as Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta mentioned: “Just treat every MCP client as an OAuth client. Treat the MCP server as a resource server that uses an existing authorization server. That’s it. Problem solved.”

That's exactly what we did to help you separate the authz layer from your business logic - a drop-in OAuth 2.1 module for MCP servers. It handles: - Scoped, short-lived tokens - DCR + PKCE + metadata discovery - 401s with authorize_url for delegated 3P workflows.

Would love to hear your feedback if you’re building with agents or your MCP servers.
by roenxi | 2025-06-10 05:31:26+00:00
I'm certainly open to that idea, although I'll note specifically with the COVID vaccines they don't lead to herd immunity. They don't appear to do much to stop transmission in practice, I'm aware of 1 person who didn't get COVID after being vaccinated and the vast majority of COVID transmissions in Australia are from vaccinated people.

The COVID vaccines were strictly personal protection.

> is there a specific time period cut off for this scenario in your head?

No; although personally rather than specific timelines I'd prefer that the people compelling me to get vaccinated had evidence they thought was compelling - they appeared to think threats were necessary which does make me doubt the quality of the evidence. That is the thing about voluntary administration of medical procedures - everyone gets to decide their own standard of evidence. Maybe some people just won't get vaccinated.
by ako | 2025-06-10 05:31:27+00:00
One night in a garage with a car with a running engine and you’re dead. Is it really that hard to imagine what happens if you have millions and millions of humans, cars, factories and other poluting items for many years? The atmosphere is not that big, that’s actually one of the main observations that astronauts have who have been to space. And if it is humans that have changed the climate by their behavior, it is also in our power to change it differently.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 05:31:50+00:00
> can understand that when a company spends an exorbitant amount of money on a building with a roof garden and the costs of ongoing maintenance they are not happy it is being dug up

The point of the roof garden is to create a delightful space. Just give the foxes their rabies shots and count your lucky stars that you got such an attraction.
by 827a | 2025-06-10 05:32:04+00:00
A significant portion of the US population believes there are safety and efficacy concerns with, at least, the COVID vaccine. America is a democracy whose leaders, at every level, are elected or appointed by those elected with the contract of executing on the will of the people to the best of their understanding. That's it.

Nowhere in there does it matter that anyone is "right". Democracy doesn't care.

See, the problem with everyone in these comments is that you're focusing on the wrong problem. RFK, Trump, they're all just symptoms of that larger problem. Getting mad at this news is like watching a tornado tear your house off the foundations then yelling in anger at the storm.
by pempem | 2025-06-10 05:32:14+00:00
I can't overstate how absolutely separate this is from reality. Yes there are protests, largely peaceful and in a tremendously small part of Los Angeles. In fact, in terms of sheer size, its less than half the size, in sq miles, of the fires in January.

Rocks / debris came after tear gas.

The news has been startling in its mis-coverage.
by csours | 2025-06-10 05:32:17+00:00
Ahead of time, and from the inside, it looks and sounds like 'restoring proper order'.

Afterwards, and from the outside, it looks and sounds like ... well read some history about attempts to 'restore proper order'. The outcome and progression is entirely and sadly predictable.

It's been about 80 years since WWII. Are we doomed to repeat this on an 80 year cycle, when the last generation who went through this passes from the scene?
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-10 05:33:45+00:00
It makes Linux the common denominator between all platforms, which could potentially mean that it gets adopted as a base platform API like POSIX is/was.

More software gets developed for that base Linux platform API, which makes releasing Linux-native software easier/practically free, which in turn makes desktop Linux an even more viable daily driver platform because you can run the same apps you use on macOS or Windows.
by Hard_Space | 2025-06-10 05:33:47+00:00
Oh please God let there be some way of turning this off or at least dialing it down. Maybe worse than the dreaded glass performance hit on CPU/GPU is the promise that elements 'get out of the way', for instance tabs disappearing while scrolling. As someone who thought Word 2003 was aok, I have hated this convergence upon an 'empty square' as a design goal. Show me all the settings, please, and don't hide them in an ellipsis either.
by esseph | 2025-06-10 05:34:09+00:00
What would you do if friends and family and neighbors of yours for years, even decades, were pulled from their homes, places of work and worship, schools, etc?

Once the state sets its eyes on enemies, it doesn't stop adding to that list.

Use of the tools and techniques in place right now will continue to be used, and against "legal" citizens.

I worry how we turn the corner. I don't like what history says.
Show HN: Pyleak – Detect asyncio issues causing AI agent latency
by deepankarm44 | 2025-06-10 05:34:15+00:00
Facing mysterious latency with your Python-based AI agents under load? Seeing extremely large time-to-first-tokens for new requests? Before blaming your LLM provider, look into the framework you're using, or your own code. Maybe the event loop is getting blocked.

I built `pyleak` to catch these event loop blocks automatically: https://github.com/deepankarm/pyleak

Use it as a pytest plugin:

import pytest @pytest.mark.no_leak async def test_my_agent(): ...
by anonymousiam | 2025-06-10 05:34:42+00:00
I'll agree with everything you've said except the part about low property taxes. I pay about 20% more in property tax on my Vegas house than I do for my LA one, and the LA one is worth about 40% more. The main reason for this is the lack of a Nevada state income tax.

I get creamed by the SALT cap, but I'm not in favor of repealing it, because it rightfully punishes states that aren't fiscally responsible.
by Larrikin | 2025-06-10 05:34:58+00:00
Did the President during the LA protest of the beating of an unarmed person ever say they wanted to be a dictator?

I edited this post because riots implies they weren't burning down their own neighborhoods because they didn't actually own anything there and had not been prevented from owning anything. Certain groups love to post the actually affected Korean store owners, but it's a gross one minority group was pitted against another to prove racism was ok in retrospect to cause the conflict.
by alex43578 | 2025-06-10 05:36:19+00:00
Excepting “sovereign citizens”, most Americans comply when asked to show ID on a traffic stop, their passport at customs, a drivers license when renting a car, or even ID when swiping a credit card at Walmart.

Do you think all Americans are just running around bartering for corn with bullets? Showing ID when engaging in modern society has become common - except when voting, of course, oddly enough :P
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-10 05:36:35+00:00
To be fair they’re not even doing that. They’re holed up without food or beds because there was no plan while the LAPD manages the protests and riots triggered by the federal troop deployment. It’s literally designed to inflame tensions, and it’s the direct cause of everything that’s going on. I feel bad for those troops being used as a pawn in a political TV stunt.

The national guard and the marines are not trained in crowd control. They are trained in combat situations. They have no role to play here, at best they just make people angry, at worse could perpetuate a massacre.
by happymellon | 2025-06-10 05:36:54+00:00
I am not US based.

And to be honest, I don't see as much Pintrest crap as I used to. It may just be that it has fallen out of favour because of its terrible design. But it was a site that basically let you create mood boards from images that you found as your browsed.

The big problem with it was that it simply copied the image so if you were looking for anything, Pintrest came up with the images for a product but then had removed all the source so it just flooded search results with uncited references and you couldn't find anything useful.

Reverse image searching to find sites thst sold a prpduct became useless.
by YZF | 2025-06-10 05:39:34+00:00
I don't even remember who the president was. I'd have to look it up. And in 2050 you won't remember who Trump was. At least that's where my money is right now. There is no way Trump is turning into a dictator, for one thing he's too old. Is there any precedence to a 78 year old turning into a dictator for life? (I mean I'm not as young as I used to be and dictator is probably not in my future either).

EDIT: It was US President George H. W. Bush ...
by a0-prw | 2025-06-10 05:40:33+00:00
Lots of very vocal yankees thought it was great when "pro-democracy" protesters in Hong Kong waved American flags and firebombed police and public buildings. That went on for about 6 months, if I recall. Karma's a bitch, America.

P.s. China never deployed the military in the Hong Kong insurrection.
by dawnerd | 2025-06-10 05:41:01+00:00
Nothing really breaking but annoying, but I suppose you wouldn't even consider it a bug then.

For example, the file changed warning. That one ended up breaking my backup cron. I wasn't being notified (my fault there) and the rsync wasn't running. Caught it months later when I tried to run a test restore.

I'm fine with it returning a warning but people were asking for an option to suppress it and you said in 2022 it would be fixed in v2.

That's why it's disappointing. Appreciate the work though! Borg has definitely been a life safer and has recovered a failed production server already.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-10 05:41:13+00:00
Yep, nailed it. This is such regressive, ignorant junk. I mean... WTF? Welcome to the failed "transparent UI" fad of two decades ago. Apple tried to revive this trash a few years ago, but then seemed to back off (or maybe I just disabled it)... and now this?

Even for the current sorry state of Apple's design regime, this is disappointing. It's way beyond a squandering of desperately-needed-elsewhere engineering resources; it's a dated-looking degradation of usability (and potentially performance).

Depressing.
by xivzgrev | 2025-06-10 05:41:49+00:00
Shh! We can’t do that! You’d piss off the republican donors. Not to mention the American public when their grocery bill significantly increases.

No, it’s much better to go harass people who aren’t in republican circles. Us vs them. Round up some illegals, make some examples, stick it to the democrats (who loosened the borders and are complicit). Trump is strong, and finally cracking down on all of this illegal nonsense, hoo rah!!

It’s all theater, that’s what Trump is - a darn good showman. Some illegals will get deported, eventually some of his core will see him as the thug he is. We just need to ensure democrats have a viable candidate lined up…ideally a white southern man. Clearly the push to elect a woman isn’t working at this time - we’ve tried it twice and Americans vote Trump instead.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-06-10 05:41:58+00:00
I went to high school in CA, AZ, and SD (state, not city). The CA public school was by far the best, despite being in a relatively poor town (San Jacinto), and so underfunded that we got random fridays off _to save on teacher salaries_. I don't know what you've heard about CA public schools, but all things considered I think they are quite good.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-10 05:42:16+00:00
Politics aside, LA just can't seem to catch a break. Floods last year, fires earlier this year and now this.

That said, what the current administration is doing is almost like they're following a manual other countries followed on their road to nationalistic decline and all the right people in places of power seem to know this. I wonder if they're ready for it? My observation is that the previous administration had four years to pass laws and measures based on trump's first four years and they didn't, which tells me there is really no stopping what is to come.

The planned decline of America won't be like other countries because of post-WW2 "super power" repositioning of country and it's critical role in global trade, communications and finance. All of humanity might suffer, at least that's my fear.

On the other hand, I like to think that if things turn sour and gruesome very fast, the American public might react to that well enough to make a u-turn.