<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: algo_trader</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=algo_trader</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:40:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=algo_trader" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> practical voltage for a DC grid using early electrical machinery is around 2 kV.<p>What is a current (pun!) practical limit?<p>If a 100MW PV farm and a data center are separated by 1km (20 Olympic pools) - is there a way to avoid AC?<p>I know there are future solutions [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/former-tesla-exec-drew-baglinos-new-startup-is-rethinking-the-electrical-transformer/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/former-tesla-exec-drew-bag...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:38:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641940</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Israel has both universal healthcare and tuition free university<p>This is both wrong and off topic.<p>Israel health care is funded by a 5% additional income tax tier. non working people pay a significant fixed annual fee.<p>University is not free. $5K for the public institutions - which have limited admissions. $10K for many of the spill over private institutions.<p>Now - about those space lasers ....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:24:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577868</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  $85k and closed our account<p>This seems excessive. Unfortunately OP does state how many disputes they had.<p>Why would an operator now withdraw the monthly/weekly cash balance?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:09:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572801</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> fully local home security system<p>R u running the GPU at full throttle 24x7? 
Have you encounters silicon failures over time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:58:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460479</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  for longturn games (23-hour turns)<p>Why 23 hours? Is this a typo?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:24:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431609</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>great write up (and effort!! ;))<p>what are your thoughts on MCTS for coding?<p>this can/must be paired with a smart execution harness to optimise roll out and roll back of execution paths and system state.<p>does this change the calculus for optimal post-training ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:39:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385740</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was Karpathy "fired" from Tesla because he could not make camera only work ?<p>Or did he "resign" since Elon insists on camera-only and Karpathy says i cant do it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:58:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054016</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> MiniMax first in my AI workflows, GLM for code tasks and Kimi K2.5<p>Its good to have these models to keep the frontier labs honest! Can i ask if you use the API or a monthly plan? Do the monthly plan throttle/reset ?<p>edit: i agree that MM2.1 most economic, and K2.5 generally the strongest</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:47:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993197</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a spring/react jar.<p>Previously I built a jar/docker and deployed to a common server. Fine.<p>Can this service deploy this to AWS free tier? Will it "know" how to avoid any paid services? (I don't necessarily need a docker or even permanent storage yet)<p>EDIT: Also - charging a % of AWS bill is pretty wild...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:24:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944483</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The irony, Mrs Morissette, is that Nova caused the battery to appear to fail, and would drain the battery still on a new phone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:14:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703997</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> my battery is no longer draining for no apparent reason<p>Oh man. I just replaced the battery on my 5 year phone - for the sole reason of <i>not</i> having to reconfigure Nova on a new phone :\</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698000</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there plenty of published preflop charts and GTO ranges<p>in fact, a fun project would be take a non-reasoning model, play on a lesser known game format, and see if it learns an "a ha" moment or explicitly simulate moves ahead</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:44:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576682</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Notebook Lawyer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you still get deals from angellist (your angel.co link now leads the HR Site)?<p>The angellist site itself seems to hide the startup/pitch side</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:17:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538197</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  food waste from various stores brought to a facility to be fed to insects<p>a. how does that solve the transmission problem?<p>b. amazing work by EU bureaucrats to regulate businesses that dont exist yet<p>c. they can export the feed to fish farms or china or whatever. the question is do the economics work. US soy bean is just incredibly productive (and subsidized)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:33:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452336</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is less about masked modelling and more about reverse-curriculum.<p>e.g. DeepCubeA 2019 (!) paper to solve Rubik cube.<p>Start with solved state and teach the network successively harder states. This is so "obvious" and "unhelpful in real domains" that perhaps they havent heard of this paper.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:56:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446527</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>can you spare 5 minutes for a quick email/chat about bidding/campaigns?<p>its rare to find a technically proficient media buyer ;/<p>(I am not a FB employee or a lawyer.. )
I will send you a DM on twitter</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:50:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425473</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The original report by Ember [1] is decent but clearly biased.<p>They assume each battery cycles entirely EVERY day - even in winter. They also assume PV is never curtailed - not even in summer. They of course ignore multi-day weather anomalies. Like wise for weekend/holiday demand variations. etc.<p>The best part of the report are real world bids of 2025 ESS projects.<p>[1] <a href="https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/how-cheap-is-battery-storage/" rel="nofollow">https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/how-cheap-is-batter...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:53:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259022</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> FC size is 5-10K orders/day, maybe up to 20K/day in certain cases, but the core technology should certainly scale down profitably to 3-5K.<p>deja-vu from the e-scooter business. even with a good product, its just not profitable/scalable enough</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202668</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "JOPA: Java compiler in C++, Jikes modernized to Java 6 with Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what is the feasibility/crazyness level of "llm porting" the javac source code to c++ ?<p>setting copyright issues aside, javac is a pretty clean textual-input-output program, and It can probably be reduced to a single thread variant</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:54:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060323</link><dc:creator>algo_trader</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by algo_trader in "Super human Stratego with RL and test time search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only 2000 GPU hours  
Heavily customized network  
95% win rate in recent human tournament sample  
Several training techniques for evaluation/learning rate</p>
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