Hacker News: ulfw

New comment by ulfw in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

ulfw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:01:36 +0000

AI is a complete commodity

One model can replace another at any given moment in time.

It's NOT a winner-takes-all industry

and hence none of the lofty valuations make sense.

the AI bubble burst will be epic and make us all poorer. Yay

New comment by ulfw in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

ulfw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:48:48 +0000

Apple's hardware (at least when it comes to their best selling products) is behind the times though. Relatively old and small camera sensors, no new battery tech and falling behind manufacturers using silicon-carbon (most evident on the mediocre iPhone Air battery runtime), no design innovation, no alternative form factors etc

New comment by ulfw in "Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement"

ulfw — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:21:26 +0000

Would love human with brain to do that.

New comment by ulfw in "Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units"

ulfw — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:44:24 +0000

Well, clearly you can.

New comment by ulfw in "Can AI be a 'child of God'? Inside Anthropic's meeting with Christian leaders"

ulfw — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:38:43 +0000

Holy shit. It's getting dumber by the day.

New comment by ulfw in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

ulfw — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:56:52 +0000

It runs very fast on my Qualcomm Elite Gen 5 SoC Oppo Find N6

New comment by ulfw in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

ulfw — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:56:13 +0000

Location: Hong Kong (PR) · Sydney, Australia (PR) · EU national. No visa sponsorship required.

Remote: Yes — worldwide. Open to fractional CPO, advisory, consulting, board, or part-time engagements. Also open to full-time senior/executive roles.

Willing to relocate: Flexible across APAC. Prefer HK base.

I've spent 15 years building mobile products at scale — Google, Myspace, Booking Holdings (Agoda), and Skyscanner. A few things I've shipped:

Rebuilt Agoda's iOS + Android apps from scratch. Launched the OTA industry's first all-inclusive pricing model with ML-powered search. Result: 6x daily bookings, 2x conversion, $2B annual mobile GMV. Led Hotels, Car Hire & Rail at Skyscanner through COVID-19. Grew Hotels above pre-pandemic levels — the only product line at the company to do it. Launched the first Myspace app on Google Play. Installed on 50% of Android devices worldwide within 12 months. At Google, ran global launch marketing for Google Mobile Search, YouTube Mobile, and iPhone Apps. Co-wrote the quarterly board letter.

What I'm good at: Mobile product strategy (iOS/Android), AI/ML product integration (recommendations, ranking, personalisation, pricing), P&L ownership, 0→1 and 1→scale, cross-functional team leadership across APAC/US/EU, UX/UI, OTA/travel tech, consumer internet.

What I'm looking for right now: Fractional CPO · VP Product · Product advisor · Board / NED · Consulting engagements. Particularly interested in mobile-first, AI-native, or travel/e-commerce companies. Happy to work remotely from HK or Sydney with periodic travel.

Stanford MBA · UC Berkeley CS

CV: http://www.ulfw.com/docs/CVulfw.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waschbusch/

Email: calstanford at gmail dot com

New comment by ulfw in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

ulfw — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:11:42 +0000

Yea but now they're selling $400+ Magic Keyboards for iPads which then function exactly in this vertical way. No difference. I've typed this on one.

New comment by ulfw in "Office EU: European-owned cloud based office suite"

ulfw — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:07:35 +0000

What/who is "European-owned"?

New comment by ulfw in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

ulfw — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:52:09 +0000

How is this any different from 'in Hong Kong it CAN happen'. Also doesn't mean everyone's phone would be checked.

Your comment isn't helpful either

New comment by ulfw in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

ulfw — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:53:25 +0000

You have never crossed the border into the Great US of A then

New comment by ulfw in "Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules"

ulfw — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:52:56 +0000

My Oppo Find N6 allows multiple user accounts

New comment by ulfw in "Goodbye to Sora"

ulfw — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:50:14 +0000

That company is run about as well as Loopt

New comment by ulfw in "How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)"

ulfw — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:47:17 +0000

So is Elon Musk and yet he is the richest man on Earth, has meddled in government freely and fanboys still believe every fart that is coming out of him.

He used to be into making cars too but that clearly fell off the wayside

New comment by ulfw in "JPEG Compression"

ulfw — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:11:53 +0000

What does frame rate have to do with being able to recognise a creature?

If I watch a video in 10fps it looks shite but I still recognise everything on screen

New comment by ulfw in "Can weight-loss pills replace injectables?"

ulfw — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:04:53 +0000

Why isn't someone at combination therapy?

Start on weight loss injectables to get the weight down over 6-12 months. Then go on pills to keep the weight

New comment by ulfw in "AirPods Max 2"

ulfw — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:35:02 +0000

Is anyone at Apple still actively working? The last couple of years everything seems incredibly minimal-update incremental.

Putting a 2022 chip into the most overpriced headphones and that's the only update is... wild in 2026

New comment by ulfw in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

ulfw — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:53:58 +0000

Why are you flexing like this?

What's your purpose?

New comment by ulfw in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

ulfw — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:18:31 +0000

OCD is a real thing

New comment by ulfw in "Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?"

ulfw — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:10:08 +0000

What jobs? There's barely any jobs