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Comment by dandongus | Hacker News Reader

Why post this here? You made 2 VMs, cool I guess?

Why not? HN is for “Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups” And why make an account just to say this?

My account is a bit older and I was going to say a similar thing ("Why is this upvoted so much", of course you're free to post anything you find interesting).

I really wonder what's interesting about this, maybe besides the hint that there are VM solutions for macOS. That's not in the slightest intended to be a personal attack.

But HN is weird, I suppose.

I remember the early days of VMs before VT-x, etc. VMs were slooooooow, but still popular. Now that we have VT-x and the like, for some who don't play with VMs often, it can be astounding. I was super excited when I first got a windows vm running on Linux. Then later was excited to run a hackintosh. Now, if you have OS specific tools, with just two VMs running at near native speed, all tools are available at your fingertips without buying more hardware. Seems excitibg to me. Just my 2¢.

I’ve been reading HN for a while, and just recently made an account. This is my first submission of my own. I was shocked as well (I thought it might get 2 votes). It isn’t something you hear about every day, though, virtualizing macOS, even if it isn’t too difficult.

I'm glad you shared it. I found it interesting and somewhat inspiring. Thank you!

I know the news guidelines [1] say "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills", but I do feel like the quality of the Hacker News comment section has fallen quite a lot in recent months.

I'm not sure why the comment quality seems to be dropping.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

it's interesting. Before reading the article I didn't know that macOS VMs works well and it will require some expensive hardware to work

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