Hacker News: TinyBig

New comment by TinyBig in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

TinyBig — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:49:11 +0000

The law you've cited only applies for "emergency transport".

Falck has found a workaround: Bill emergencies as "non-emergency" so they can balance bill. This is, of course, fraud. I'm sure that enough don't understand the law that this makes them a lot of money.

Pretext, Pretext, Pretext: Building reasons to be together

TinyBig — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:57:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seeingthesystem.com/p/pretext-pretext-pretext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364133

Points: 3

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New comment by TinyBig in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

TinyBig — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:03:18 +0000

On top of token tracking, they're also scoring employees on how much they teach Ai to their colleagues. As bad as the token dashboard sounds, employees being forced to try to mine each other for credit sounds worse.

Shareholder primacy undermined its own logic

TinyBig — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:13:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seeingthesystem.com/p/the-map-that-became-the-territory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923498

Points: 3

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New comment by TinyBig in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"

TinyBig — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:02:39 +0000

There are many hyper-credentialized, gatekept systems but most of them don't share the feature of producing structurally worse outcomes as literary fiction. I believe this system is already selling the seeds of its own demise.

A small group of agents hold most of the power, and the system has confused power for taste. This has also, in my experience, led to the outlets that hold the most power using that power to push agendas instead of seeking out the best literature. I do not believe this can persist indefinitely.

Buying Back our Slack: AI and the case for rebuilding the firm

TinyBig — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:08:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seeingthesystem.com/p/buying-back-our-slack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351743

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

How Institutions Forget How to Move

TinyBig — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:53:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seeingthesystem.com/p/how-institutions-forget-how-to-move

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961503

Points: 2

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New comment by TinyBig in "The Game That Ate Itself"

TinyBig — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:27:25 +0000

A game-theoretic model of why AI automation might be a trap: each firm's rational choice to automate erodes the aggregate demand all firms depend on. The Nash equilibrium is slow-motion collapse.

The Game That Ate Itself

TinyBig — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:27:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seeingthesystem.com/p/the-game-that-ate-itself

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877542

Points: 2

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New comment by TinyBig in "Lessons from economies that closed their borders"

TinyBig — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:34:16 +0000

Tariffs continue to be a major topic of debate. The author examines what happened to countries that closed their borders and protected domestic industry with the promise of strength and self-sufficiency. The historical record is surprisingly consistent.

Lessons from economies that closed their borders

TinyBig — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:34:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seeingthesystem.com/p/what-protection-costs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847322

Points: 8

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New comment by TinyBig in "Saks Global files for bankruptcy after takeover leads to financial collapse"

TinyBig — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:29:02 +0000

When Saks Fifth Avenue put out feelers to sell off pieces of BergdorfGoodman, I took it as a very bad sign.

Bergdorf is the crown jewel in that portfolio. Anytime you see a corporation pawning off its winners to fund its losers, they're in very, very deep trouble.

New comment by TinyBig in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

TinyBig — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:33:02 +0000

I'm working on an app to make testing available to all brick and mortar retailers (proofpod.ai).

The most difficult technical challenge has been designing a pipeline to fully automate choosing test & control locations using synthetic difference-in-differences.

New comment by TinyBig in "ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?"

TinyBig — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:50:12 +0000

A phrase I liked to describe what we're doing with LLMs is "building a personal panopticon". The benefits are immense but you're placing a huge bet on the landlord of the tower.

Amp It Up and the Seduction of Intensity

TinyBig — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:19:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seeingthesystem.com/p/amp-it-up-and-the-seduction-of-intensity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489403

Points: 1

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New comment by TinyBig in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

TinyBig — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:34:52 +0000

I've taken one of the electric roll-on/roll-off ferries that cross from Denmark to Sweden over the Øresund strait. Zero fumes, zero vibration, incredibly quiet. Awesome to see this tech being used for longer crossings.

The Average Customer and Other Hallucinations

TinyBig — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:30:21 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-182665508

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434262

Points: 2

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The Architecture of Truth-Seeking

TinyBig — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://eyeofthesquid.com/the-architecture-of-truth-seeking-934b79733ed5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46187538

Points: 1

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New comment by TinyBig in "AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society"

TinyBig — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:57:36 +0000

James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State is a useful lens here. Scott argues that modern states flattened human complexity into legible categories so they could govern: surnames, maps, censuses, standardized occupations. You lose a lot of nuance, but in theory the trade-off is that the state can then build institutions that serve the public.

AI feels like a more extreme version of that flattening, but without the civic purpose that justified it. You end up with legibility without legitimacy. That’s the part I think we don’t have a good framework for yet.

AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society

TinyBig — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://eyeofthesquid.com/ai-is-breaking-the-moral-foundation-of-modern-society-a145d471694f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130798

Points: 111

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