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New comment by a11ce in "Show HN: Onionfutures.com: transferable contracts for future delivery of onions"

a11ce — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:25:53 +0000

Sure! In 1955, two traders very aggressively cornered then shorted the onion futures market, bankrupting a bunch of onion farmers. This led to the passing of the Onion Futures Act[1], banning the sale of onion futures. This has become something of a financial meme.

OnionFutures.com sells 'private, transferable contracts for the future physical delivery of onions'. This, by my reading of the Onion Futures Act, is legal! So the site is a joke about the OFA (hence the first FAQ question being 'Is this legal?') but also you can actually buy a contract for the future delivery of an onion (and receive a UUID that you can privately resell).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

Show HN: Onionfutures.com: transferable contracts for future delivery of onions

a11ce — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:24:36 +0000

Article URL: https://onionfutures.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185873

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by a11ce in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

a11ce — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:41:35 +0000

New comment by a11ce in "Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container"

a11ce — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:41:04 +0000

This loses the "feature" of being able to write builtins in different languages/operating systems/whatever. Either way, I think a serious version of this would use threads. Concurrency is the real potential benefit imo.

I was getting warnings without that line and don't know how else to fix it (this is my first time using Docker). A PR would be welcome if there's a better way.

New comment by a11ce in "Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container"

a11ce — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:00:09 +0000

It does allow for a pretty clean parallel map builtin...

Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container

a11ce — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/a11ce/docker-lisp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069876

Points: 83

# Comments: 28

New comment by a11ce in "The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs"

a11ce — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:42:56 +0000

It does (image is Dr. House with a drawing of the pope holding an assault rifle, SFW) https://chatgpt.com/c/680bd5f2-6e24-8010-b772-a2065197279c

Normally this image prompt is refused. Maybe the trick wouldn't work on sexual/violent images but I honestly don't want to see any of that.

New comment by a11ce in "The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs"

a11ce — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:32:58 +0000

Yes, they do. Here you go: https://chatgpt.com/share/680bd542-4434-8010-b872-ee7f8c44a2...