Hacker News: alizaki

New comment by alizaki in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

alizaki — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:27:18 +0000

Indeed. What a deep cut

New comment by alizaki in "John C. Dvorak has died"

alizaki — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:21:29 +0000

His PC magazine column was the first thing I read when I was able to get hold of old PC Magazines.

Even in the fast cycle of PCs in the 90s, you could learn something reading yesterdays newspaper from his columns. RIP

New comment by alizaki in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

alizaki — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:16:07 +0000

There is no “Chinese LLM”. Each “lab” is distinct and their models behavior is as unique as those from OpenAI and Anthropic

New comment by alizaki in "The Man Who Got Americans to Eat Pollock"

alizaki — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:51:48 +0000

I'm not sure if identifying pain is the opposite of creating need. The pain here was fast foods need for cheap fish that has a reliable supply. The need was created when he was able to convince these companies that his fish supply chain was their best solution.

Building New Products Inside High-Growth Startups: The “Moonshots” Story

alizaki — Wed, 31 May 2017 21:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@zakimahomed/the-moonshots-story-building-new-products-inside-high-growth-startups-babf3a1f9c82

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456169

Points: 1

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New comment by alizaki in "I am shutting down my bookstore in New Delhi"

alizaki — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:41:26 +0000

the like/share/repin/rate/review buttons are a form of natural curation built into the fabric of the social web.

New comment by alizaki in "Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?"

alizaki — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:59:06 +0000

A work/travel-program for knowledge professionals to travel the world and work a set number of hours a week on projects to pay their way. Air tickets, budget, airbnbs/apartments all paid for. Then you resell services to clients.

You could probably keep a high enough margin by saving through smart purchasing/renting of travel along and picking lower cost/highly desired destinations (south east asia comes to mind, for example).

a business of lifestyle, if you will.

New comment by alizaki in "Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?"

alizaki — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:50:06 +0000

the irs would hit any partners you use to transfer funds very quickly with deep audits at the very minimum if this gets even a little traction, i'd think

New comment by alizaki in "Mattermark Has Raised $2M in Our Second Seed Round"

alizaki — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 05:45:31 +0000

This is a bridge round led by an outside investor. Not uncommon, especially between Series A and B. I don't get much of the hard decision here, seems pretty common. I do appreciate her honesty though.

New comment by alizaki in "101 Ways to Save Apple (1997)"

alizaki — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:44:33 +0000

The problem with such advice is that some of it is always right. But you just don't which part. And you can't do it all.

New comment by alizaki in "Why Zynga is failing"

alizaki — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:51:54 +0000

You're probably right, FB prices went up for Zynga more so than others because they saturated their market (which just took longer cause it was bigger). However, anecdotally, I've seen FB prices rise 25 - 35% over the last 18 months.

New comment by alizaki in "Why Zynga is failing"

alizaki — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:05:47 +0000

I think this misses the point entirely. Zynga is not failing because their products are cheap to recreate. Plenty of companies, in tech and beyond, have easily recreatable products but do just fine. Zynga is "failing" (if you can call it that) because they depended on cheap user traffic from Facebook - both through free virality and later cheap ad buys. Facebook is maturing as a business and ad prices are going up. And Facebook realized that all that game spam was just not worth the 30% vig they charged (probably the hard way - through testing for user engagement). Take away those temporary advantages and Zynga is just like any other gaming company.

This is a right sizing of the company and its revenues to reflect the games they own, once you take away the cheap/free traffic.

New comment by alizaki in "Only 200 Startups Per Year End Up Mattering and Most of them Aren't in Tech"

alizaki — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:08:16 +0000

A lot more tech companies are started now than maybe, 3 years ago. Also, it takes companies time to reach $100M in revenue.

Manufacturing Luck

alizaki — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:39:16 +0000

Article URL: http://www.zakimahomed.com/blog/?p=57

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492905

Points: 1

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New comment by alizaki in "We don't know why lithium batteries work"

alizaki — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:19:27 +0000

I always wondered why everything related to my computing devices seems to follow some variation of Moores law but the battery. This explains it.

New comment by alizaki in "Why Zynga Failed"

alizaki — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:08:09 +0000

I think a fundamental assumption in this article is flawed: "The most popular games are still pretty simple, but mid-core games like strategy simulator War Commander are gaining steam. Some people who used to be content clicking FarmVille crops have moved on to more complicated games."

So called "mid core" games on Facebook are generally male focused war/strategy titles. Most Farmville/Cityville, etc. players are women. They haven't "moved on" to more complicated games. They've just grown tired of the same formula.

New comment by alizaki in "Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?"

alizaki — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:47:17 +0000

Shoedazzle pioneered this but had to get rid of the subscription and flip to a per-item charge because of scam complains.

New comment by alizaki in "Red Herring awards: a scam?"

alizaki — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:25:44 +0000

Red Herring used to be a major tech magazine back in the day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Herring_(magazine)

New comment by alizaki in "Yahoo Axis"

alizaki — Sat, 26 May 2012 09:47:58 +0000

Why does Apple warn users that they must be at least 17 to download a browser. Or for that matter say that Axis may contain:

    Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
    Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
    Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
    Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
    Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
    Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
    Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
    Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity

It’s About Delight, Stupid

alizaki — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:54:46 +0000

Article URL: http://www.zakimahomed.com/blog/?p=49

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988753

Points: 4

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