Hacker News: TradingPlaces

New comment by TradingPlaces in "A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)"

TradingPlaces — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:02:37 +0000

My high school had one of them in the early 80s. Me and a few others were the only ones who ever turned it on. Then a friend got an Apple ][ and we never touched the PDP-11 again.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

TradingPlaces — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:27:13 +0000

For a moment it was called Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Naming things is hard.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

TradingPlaces — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:05:56 +0000

Naive question. How does the method in the OpenAI and Stripe flow charts differ from buying from a 3rd party seller on Amazon, which requires no agent? I don’t see what the agent is doing independently in the payment part.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?"

TradingPlaces — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:13:15 +0000

In the 80s and 90s I was positive that customers would revolt over the constant security issues and generally poor quality of Microsoft software. I don’t need to tell you that it did not happen.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Ask HN: What now occupies a web domain you used to own?"

TradingPlaces — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 03:13:27 +0000

A site in Japanese that has tips on decorating a sushi restaurant.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Steve Jobs' cabinet"

TradingPlaces — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:53:09 +0000

Plywood is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxldyIa0Bg

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave"

TradingPlaces — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:10:19 +0000

All this is illegal:

The Impoundment Control Act

The Administrative Procedure Act

The Civil Service Reform Act

The Museum and Library Services Act

The Appointments clause of Article II of the Constitution

The Take Care clauses of Article II of the Constitution.

Executive orders are not laws and cannot override laws.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "GDPNow first quarter of 2025: -2.8% (seasonally adjusted annual rate)"

TradingPlaces — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:30:34 +0000

That includes -4.8 percentage points from net trade which comes from two sources:

1) Importers getting ahead of tariffs in Jan and Feb. 2) -2.3 percentage points of the net trade deficit estimate was from imported non-monetary gold, because Americans want portable wealth right now.

The thing to be concerned about is that real consumption is up only 0.3% quarter-over-quarter annualized in this estimate. This is two-thirds of GDP. Investment is actually pretty strong, especially equipment (GPU servers).

New comment by TradingPlaces in "The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI"

TradingPlaces — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:44:37 +0000

Selling tokens is likely to be a tough business in a couple of years

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

TradingPlaces — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:40:13 +0000

Apple and the FBI were squabbling over this for a few years, and then Apple decided to end the conversation one day and implement ADP

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Rumor About GPT-5 Changes Everything"

TradingPlaces — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:03:42 +0000

The history of AI is big leaps followed by years of crawl.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

TradingPlaces — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:46:07 +0000

They got so much right and still got swamped.

Why Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman Are Fighting–and How It Could Help Google

TradingPlaces — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-openai-altman-battle-google-d7ea18ea

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554275

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by TradingPlaces in "After twelve years of writing about Bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed"

TradingPlaces — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:06:01 +0000

So the best case is that it is gambling? What are we dong?

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Ask HN: Next best to incorporate other than Delaware?"

TradingPlaces — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 20:15:03 +0000

The irreplaceable thing DE brings is the Chancery Court. No better venue for contact cases. Chancellors are very knowledgable, and no nonsense.

The DOJ-Google Fight Comes into Focus. Why It's Finally Hitting Alphabet's Stock

TradingPlaces — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:25:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barrons.com/articles/doj-google-alphabet-stock-price-9c68b28b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208256

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO

TradingPlaces — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/30/cerebras-files-for-ipo.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702789

Points: 219

# Comments: 135

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Hindenburg Research goes after Super Micro"

TradingPlaces — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:56:06 +0000

Right on the heels of claims of accounting irregularities by Hindenburg, Super Micro announced today that they would be filing their annual report late. Very bad look at a minimum, and the stock down 25% today.

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed"

TradingPlaces — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:43:30 +0000

They have a way of bypassing bad cores, and over-provision both logic and memory by 1.5% to account for that. They get 100% yields this way.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...

New comment by TradingPlaces in "Ask HN: Why not replace technical job interviews with yearly standardized exams?"

TradingPlaces — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:46:46 +0000

Goodhart’s Law. When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric