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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)
on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:46PM (#46963785)
Would love to hear more about your thesis
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)
on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:00AM (#46960553)
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
https://github.com/tibi-iorga/echo-reading
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...
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Re:If you don't tinker, you don't have taste
on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @05:56AM (#45744701)
+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.
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Re:Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:26AM (#43350807)
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.
Re:Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:22AM (#43350795)
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
Re:Ask HN: What stops open source UberEats alternatives from popping u...
on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @10:30AM (#41511736)
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.
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Ask HN: What would you feel if you would be squeezed to death?
When I was a kid I remember being terrified of the scenes in movies or cartoons when the ceiling would or the walls would slowly cave in. What would you actually feel if that happens? Would you pass out before getting crushed?
Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?
on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:25AM (#33289011)
Thanks for clarifying, changed the original post
Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?
The famous story is that Apple was nosediving under John Sculley 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?
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Re:A free newsletter for BJJ hobbyists
on Monday March 14, 2022 @02:09PM (#30675832)
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.