Hacker News: awad

New comment by awad in "Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead"

awad — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:10:41 +0000

This is very neat! Great job :)

I can empathize with your quota....was gifted a FlightWall recently (https://theflightwall.com) and it constantly throws a 'too many flights' indicator given that I live in a major metro with quite a bit of air traffic. I'm sure it was thrilling and terrifying to see your usage spike. Wishing you all the best of luck!

Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining…Police Pulled Up to Her School

awad — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:48:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160542

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

New comment by awad in "Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals"

awad — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:45:19 +0000

How does one reach you privately? Not seeing anything on your HN bio

New comment by awad in "Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped"

awad — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:43:10 +0000

The question I have that no one has really answered is...what kind of crawling have the current frontier labs done historically and what are they continuing to do now for training? Inference can follow rules easily, but the training is a big black box that mostly gets headlines for books getting slashed but that's not the only source of data is it?

New comment by awad in "Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped"

awad — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:35:43 +0000

Do you have a free or paid ChatGPT license?

New comment by awad in "Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals"

awad — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:59:51 +0000

Congrats on everything you've accomplished so far! You emphasize two-sided marketplace so, I'm wondering, from y'alls POV which side is more difficult/which side are you going after harder? Naturally you need to do both, but realistically, one side is always more challenging and more important and it's not always obvious which is which.

BYD aims to overtake Toyota in five years without relying on the US market

awad — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:17:18 +0000

Article URL: https://carnewschina.com/2026/07/15/byd-aims-to-overtake-toyota-in-five-years-without-relying-on-the-us-market/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951211

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

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