Hacker News: awad

New comment by awad in "AirPods Max 2"

awad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:35:59 +0000

Forgetting all technical benefits: people will always have opinions on headphones and it's rather fascinating that Apple owns the entire market for fashionable ones, despite there being nothing stopping outside players. They specifically acquired Beats for this reason to shore up that base, and so far no one has been able to make a dent in the celebrity or influencer space.

New comment by awad in "GPT-5.4"

awad — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:03:29 +0000

Incredibly curious how Google's approach to support, naming, versioning etc will mesh with the iOS integration.

New comment by awad in "What Claude Code chooses"

awad — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:22:47 +0000

There are competing terms currently being decided on by the market at large: AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

Candidly I am working on a startup in this space myself, though we are taking a different angle than most incumbents.

While it's still early days for the space, I sense a lot of the original entrants who focus on, essentially, 'generate more content ideally with our paid tools' will run in to challenges as the general population has a pretty negative perception of 'AI Slop.' Doubly so when making purchasing decisions, hence the rise of influencers and popularity of reviews (though those are also in danger of sloppification).

There's an inevitable GIGO scenario if left unchecked IMO.

New comment by awad in "iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information"

awad — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:50:46 +0000

There's this old gem about being able to ask Aristotle a question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzLMPm3Jgw

New comment by awad in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

awad — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:54:13 +0000

It would not surprise me that Yahoo Japan was the blueprint for many of these sites. It still is extremely popular as a portal destination.

Stellantis's Shift Away from Electric Cars Will Cost It $26B

awad — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:35:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/business/stellantis-writedown-electric-vehicles.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915731

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by awad in "An Update on Heroku"

awad — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:25:21 +0000

For those not as well-versed in corporate PR....Salesforce are going to do just the bare minimum to keep the service going until the revenue dries up (or some > 0 $$ threshold where it just doesn't financially make sense to keep it running).

Pour one out for Heroku as they were truly a revelation back in the day and one of the most magical experiences ever on first run.

New comment by awad in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

awad — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:57:47 +0000

Somewhat related but I was disappointed to learn that Time Machine would no longer support Time Capsule post Tahoe, which I suppose is fair 8 years post discontinuation, but also unfortunate considering AFAICT the only real potential issue would be HDD degradation over the years? At the least, there have been plenty of system alerts noting this fact, but still annoying to have to buy something else. I know both AirPort and Time Capsule were an infinitesimally small part of their business...but they absolutely rocked when they were launched.

New comment by awad in "Asterisk AI Voice Agent"

awad — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:11:03 +0000

Amazon is generally good at 1) resolving an issue in your favor and 2) getting you to a human if needed but gosh does it feel like I've taken a different path to do so every single time I'ever needed support.

New comment by awad in "Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers"

awad — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:40:02 +0000

While totally unaware of the underlying economics, I do find it interesting how the major LLM providers found a way to get a non-trivial portion of consumers to actually pay for the consumer service. Of course, ads are still coming, but it was objectively impressive to go from 20+ years of "search is free" to "search is free, but capped, unless you pay us."

New comment by awad in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

awad — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:28:02 +0000

Highly recommend adding some kind of canary like this in all LLM project instructions. I prefer my instructions to say 'always start output with an (uniquely decided by you) emoji' as it's easier to visually scan for one when reading a wall of LLM output, and use a different emoji per project because what's life without a little whim?

New comment by awad in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

awad — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:07:27 +0000

While it could stand to be more aggressive at times, especially at intersections, FSD works fairly well in NYC and can do all of less-than-legal-but-necessary things a normal driver can do (such as cross over a double yellow if there is a double parked car blocking the road) so I don't see why Waymo would have any trouble on that aspect at all.

The American Car Industry Can't Go on Like This

awad — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ford-china-electric-cars/683880/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44925089

Points: 16

# Comments: 6

New comment by awad in "“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”"

awad — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:29:38 +0000

The steak is sliced very thin and cooked (often with cheese incorporated), so think of it as more of a beef sandwich than a steak on bread.

New comment by awad in "Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

awad — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:49 +0000

Plenty of those memes and reels ARE focused on 'IRL' activities, though. Obviously the full experience depends on your feed, but a lot of content is created and shared around restaurants/activities/vacation etc and many millennials and Gen Z find inspiration there, whether from influencers or peers.

New comment by awad in "Raising of Chicago"

awad — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:25:01 +0000

Are all the raised areas sitting on top of the jackscrews (where used) from 170 years ago? That itself is astounding.

New comment by awad in "OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly"

awad — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 05:39:55 +0000

Fun fact: AMEX has been involved in international payments in one way or another for more than a 100 years and the AMEX card was the first international charge card, launched the same year as the original BofA Visa Card.

New comment by awad in "Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses"

awad — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:43:38 +0000

FWIW Monday night games are available on standard ESPN and, sometimes, ABC and Sunday night games are on NBC. So you don't strictly speaking need Peacock or ESPN+

New comment by awad in "One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch"

awad — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 01:22:34 +0000

Did not expect to see this here, but spot on.

New comment by awad in "Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce Rivalry"

awad — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:26:13 +0000

As a former vendor working with customers across the e-commerce spectrum, Shopify were certainly the best to work with from both a technology integration and ease of use standpoint. They're a rare example of a company that started very self service and remained that way while growing to significantly more complex client bases so has a wide appeal. Working with them was generally a treat.

Demandware weren't strictly speaking the worst to work with, but it was certainly better days when they were an independent organization vs part of the Salesforce behemoth. There's just a lot more red tape slowing everything down, which I think carries over to the customer experience....things take days/weeks/months in SFCC land that can be done in minutes/hours/days in Shopify land.

All that is to say I'm not at all surprised by the headline, that I'd be long Shopify as an investor, and I'd seriously look at them first as a developer if I were building in the e-commerce space.