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Yabood

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Entrepreneur, lifelong learner, and wannabe chef. I love the web and enjoy building web applications. Founder of https://trylexeme.com
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Yabood··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
I think they meant the weight reduction is equivalent to the Duo.
Yabood··on Claude Opus 5.5
Current models, especially Opus are almost unusable because they don’t respect instructions and their responses are infuriating. They are clearly designed for token consumption. I find myself wasting a lot of time just asking it to shorten or simplify its responses. I’ll give this new model a go, but I’m not holding my breath because the last model release was supposed to fix the very same issues and it didn’t.
Yabood··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
I'm building Lexeme (https://trylexeme.com), a SaaS service that tracks how AI models like ChatGPT cite and describe your product vs. competitors, and tells you what to fix first based on estimated revenue exposure.
Yabood··on Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent
I don’t know, I like it.
Yabood··on Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent
Come back on Monday with a link.
Yabood··on Show HN: Loodio 2 – A Simple Rechargable Bathroom Privacy Device
Exactly. I used HomePods to solve this problem. Hey Siri, play my x playlist. Hey siri, stop.
Yabood··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
An employee advocacy platform that helps companies amplify their brand reach and thought leadership through their employees’ social networks. It integrates with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, allowing marketing teams to easily share curated content that employees can like, comment on, or reshare without needing to leave their workspace or log into LinkedIn.

https://www.socialweaver.com

Yabood··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I’m working on SocialWeaver, an employee advocacy platform that helps businesses scale their marketing and reach by getting employees engaged with social content directly from Slack and Microsoft Teams.

I’m sure many of you were asked to engage with some product announcement, hiring post, or whatever on LinkedIn. With SocialWeaver, we remove all friction from that process by letting employees like, share, and comment directly within Slack and Teams. On top of the core use case, marketing teams also get analytics, employee leaderboards, content scheduling, etc.

https://www.socialweaver.com

Yabood··on Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
UVA does this for households that make less $100K. Hopefully, they’ll follow suit and bump it to $200K as well.
Yabood··on M4 MacBook Pro
Exactly how I read it. I have an intel model, and the press release felt like a targeted ad.
Yabood··on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
https://socialweaver.com, an employee advocacy platform. Our product enables your employees to directly share and engage with your LinkedIn content from Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email.
Yabood··on My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
As a Muslim, I disagree. A business is more than the sum of its revenues. Marketing, research and development, relationship with clients, etc. are all part of the business valuation. If a buyer looks at some business and decides its worth 10x, then that's not haram as long as you're not deceiving them.
Yabood··on Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024
Agreed. Been using for a few years and have zero complaints.
Yabood··on Bloomberg: Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020
I second this. I switched to Apple Maps earlier this year and never looked back. I find the UX, especially when driving in CarPlay mode to be superior to Google’s.
Yabood··on Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows porn film on a screen
I was raised in Baghdad, I can assure you the person who set this up knows better, but didn’t care enough or didn’t think other people would know what teamviewer is or both.
Yabood··on Washington, DC, avoided the worst price rises that have plagued American cities
I’m not sure I agree with this. I currently live in Arlington, and used to live in DC a few years ago. I moved here because it is safer than DC but still 10 minutes away from DC, has fantastic public schools, and even more fantastic public parks, much cleaner than most areas of DC, cheaper, tones of restaurants, bars, etc.
Yabood··on Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
There’s a bit more to it I think. Pricing and basic messaging aside, you can build robust applications on top of MS Teams and have complete freedom over the UI, functionality, etc., but you can’t do the same with Slack. In many cases, MS Teams can replace Slack, but Slack can’t replace Teams.
Yabood··on I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney
This won’t be a problem once you can feed it an entire solution. I suspect we’re not too far from being able to do that.
Yabood··on I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney
I think its both. Per OP, the process of producing their art no longer takes weeks when using AI, therefore, less people will be needed.
Yabood··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
We have a business that relies on the Twitter API. I don’t mind paying to access the API, but the way they’re handling this makes me want to deprecate support for Twitter entirely. I am only learning about this change from this thread. Even worse, we only have 7 days to react.
Yabood··on Marriage rules in Minoan Crete revealed by ancient DNA analysis
I think you’re confusing religion with cultural practices. Islam allows cousin marriage, but doesn’t encourage it.
Yabood··on We invested 10% to pay back tech debt
All valid points, but let's not forget that development teams are a major contributor too.
Yabood··on WordPress’ market share is shrinking
This is a plausible explanation considering that the drop in market share is not that big. It would be interesting to compare the numbers from the past two years.
Yabood··on Tailwind CSS v3.0
Unless your coworker configured some plugins or extended some classes, a vanilla tailwind config with JIT-enabled should be all you need.
Yabood··on Tailwind CSS v3.0
We've been using Tailwind for over a year now. We use it with Angular for our web application and with Gatsbyjs/React for our production website. I have nothing but love for Tailwind.
Yabood··on iPadOS 15
No multi-user support? Meh.
Yabood··on What's Salesforce? (2019)
Couldn't agree more! I'd like to add to that the terrible UX. In fact, Salesforce is so terrible that there are dozens of businesses built around just configuring it for you.
Yabood··on TailwindCSS JIT with arbitrary values
I’ve been using tailwindcss and tailwindui for our production platform (released), and our new website (in development) and couldn’t be happier. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll be able to build stuff very quickly. For our production platform, I have it running on top of Angular and Angular material. Getting tailwind, angular, and material to work together wasn’t easy, but once I got it up and running, it was pretty straightforward to start building new pages or modify existing ones without having to change existing styles.

I had two major complaints and this update fixes both. The first is the enormous size of the css file locally, which caused the browser to become considerably slower and made the developer tools really slow to load when selecting elements. The second was the lack of the !important selector.

This is a solid update. Kudos to the team.

Yabood··on She Came to the US to Study with Only $300 – Now She’s a NASA Director
Thank you! Well, the rest of the story is pretty vanilla. When I got to the US, my best friend managed to get me an unpaid internship that later converted to a full-time job. The first year or so was tough, but I had good friends and good mentors who helped me move up the corporate ladder. I'm currently working on my own startup like most people here.
Yabood··on She Came to the US to Study with Only $300 – Now She’s a NASA Director
I came in as a refugee. There was no deal; I took an English proficiency test at an L-3 Titan site and passed, then was offered a job at two different locations. One of them was the ICS (Iraqi Correctional Service), and the other was just too far from where I lived. At the prison, I discovered that someone was swapping the Pentium CPUs with Celeron and told one of the American advisors; He fired me, but later realized I knew what I was talking about and asked me if I could build a database. Fun times.
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