Hacker News: tb8424

What Will Artificial Intelligence Mean for the Labor Market and the Economy?

tb8424 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:54:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/barr20260217a.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114565

Points: 3

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New comment by tb8424 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

tb8424 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:46:46 +0000

Would love to hear more about your thesis

New comment by tb8424 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

tb8424 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:00:19 +0000

A PDF reader that I can chat with

https://github.com/tibi-iorga/echo-reading

Pretty happy with the UX, read a whole book on it. Really hard not to constantly tweak the tool as I am reading but...

Show HN: Echo – Local-first kindle-like reader with annotations and LLM chat

tb8424 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:57:46 +0000

Hi HN,

Long time lurker here. I'm kind of nervous to post this, but I built a tool for myself that I wanted to share with you.

Problem: I have A LOT of technical PDFs sitting around on my computer. I use ChatGPT a lot to deep-dive into the reading, but it was pretty distracting even with a split screen view, since I had to copy paste content from one window to the other.

Solution: A kindle-like reader that allows me to send context to a chat window and discuss more about it.

It has full portability through a sync file and uses your own API key.

Disclaimer: I'm a Product Manager and a Designer. This was 100% vibe coded in Cursor as a tool for myself, but I wanted to share it in case anyone might find it useful.

Repo: https://github.com/tibi-iorga/echo-reading

Try it at: https://echoreading.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849787

Points: 3

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How to recover from a mistake without losing credibility

tb8424 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:29:56 +0000

Article URL: https://tibinotes.substack.com/p/how-to-recover-from-a-mistake-without

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45865079

Points: 1

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New comment by tb8424 in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

tb8424 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:56:17 +0000

+1 on this. There's a big difference for some between the 15 dollar whiskey and the 35 dollar whiskey, probably another jump between 35 and 80 dollar whiskey, and then after that it starts getting into crazy marginal gains. If you drink 15 dollar whiskey you'd get 90% of your gains from just bumping it up to 35 versus going straight for the 300 dollar bottle.

Same it was with me for coffee, I enjoy single origin vs supermarket coffee, but after that it got to a point where I couldn't realistically make up the difference.

There seems to be an 80/20 effect here on how much you should deep-dive into these tangent domains in your life.

To people building software in healthcare, education and other core industries

tb8424 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:43:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tibinotes.com/p/to-people-building-software-in-healthcare

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44494982

Points: 4

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New comment by tb8424 in "Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer"

tb8424 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:26:46 +0000

OP here - A good freelancer gets you a long way. What I found is that during the development process, people hit edge cases and have questions... doing a lot of the discovery and thinking yourself helps you answer those questions faster.

Alternatively, if you find a freelancer within your budget that can stick with you until the feature is out of the door is a great win.

New comment by tb8424 in "Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer"

tb8424 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:22:20 +0000

I echo on the "The Design of Everyday Things" making you perpetually dissatisfied.

Thanks for the second rec, I'll give it a go

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer

tb8424 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tibinotes.com/p/practical-ux-for-startups-surviving

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348379

Points: 422

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New comment by tb8424 in "Ask HN: What stops open source UberEats alternatives from popping up everywhere?"

tb8424 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:30:47 +0000

When a company like Uber takes a cut from the driver, a part of that money is used to pay for the people that work for the app, but there are a lot of non-technical useful roles that keep the wheels turning: support functions like customer support / incidents / legal and onboarding teams make sure that the drivers and clients are safe and that they are not breaking any laws.

Liability is a second thing. Cost is one of the factors that might make people swing to other apps, but you also want an experience that is legal and safe, and at Uber's scale it takes quite a lot of people to synchronise this, as the liability for things like that belong to Uber and not the driver.

Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words

tb8424 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:21:22 +0000

Article URL: https://book.stevejobsarchive.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35597687

Points: 1

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Wartime vs. Peacetime Networking

tb8424 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://tb8424.substack.com/p/wartime-vs-peacetime-networking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34951520

Points: 1

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New comment by tb8424 in "Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?"

tb8424 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:25:31 +0000

Thanks for clarifying, changed the original post

Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?

tb8424 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:20:32 +0000

The famous story is that Apple was nosediving under the current CEO and that Apple's acquisition of NeXT (and bringing Steve Jobs back as CEO) revitalised the company.

I read about drastic staff / product cuts and re-focusing on the company, however that was always told from the outside.

Was someone working at Apple during that transition and has any interesting stories / can share their experience?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33288246

Points: 311

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Are multivitamin supplements worth it?

tb8424 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:48:27 +0000

Article URL: https://grapplinglane.substack.com/p/are-multivitamin-supplements-worth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33174066

Points: 1

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BCAA Supplements: A Scientific Overview

tb8424 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:39:57 +0000

Article URL: https://grapplinglane.substack.com/p/gl-10-bcaa-and-post-exercise-recovery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093223

Points: 4

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Caffeine and Exercise Performance

tb8424 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:04:14 +0000

Article URL: https://grapplinglane.substack.com/p/gl-9-caffeine-and-exercise-performance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017727

Points: 114

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What a research paper says about rehydration after exercise

tb8424 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:04:42 +0000

Article URL: https://grapplinglane.substack.com/p/gl-8-what-a-research-paper-says-about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32922440

Points: 2

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New comment by tb8424 in "A free newsletter for BJJ hobbyists"

tb8424 — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:09:13 +0000

Hey, If anyone here dabbles with Jiu-Jitsu, I created a free newsletter that collects resources around training tips, recovery and nutrition and packs them into a short, weekly email.