Hacker News: anonu

New comment by anonu in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

anonu — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:22:13 +0000

Vertical integration: they own the venues

New comment by anonu in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

anonu — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:05:28 +0000

glad to see that Stack Overflow (or stackexchange.com) is still a thing.

New comment by anonu in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

anonu — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:11:48 +0000

Gave Claude a third party vendors binary market data stream. With no spec and 20 minutes of hex dumping it built a parser and a cool TUI. Wow...

That kind of work would have taken weeks if done by hand. Even after obtaining message specs and more

New comment by anonu in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

anonu — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:27:47 +0000

The well publicized disagreements are just diplomatic cover. The USA can look tough. Israel might back off for a little bit. Everyone looks good for a moment. Reason has prevailed. Then it'll all go back to Israel's criminal "gaza policy" in South Lebanon, continuing the wanton murder of 1000s of civilians under the guise of "they use children as shields". Well yeah, it's endless guerilla warfare and now hezb has drones. Diplomacy is the only way.

New comment by anonu in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

anonu — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:49:38 +0000

You'll eventually get exposure to it when it gets added in 12 months. Unless there are better profitability criteria. Ultimately it's all about market returns. If other indexes add it and outperform then eventually money will shift to those funds that do better.

New comment by anonu in "A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025)"

anonu — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:00:53 +0000

For anyone curious: the most destructive force is the Lebanese themselves, at least in the last 30 years. Israel has only recently taken first place.

New comment by anonu in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

anonu — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:54:29 +0000

Isn't that stock market a prediction market?

New comment by anonu in "There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US"

anonu — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:24:19 +0000

TSLA was a $60bn company when Musk made his equity milestone deal in 2018. He had a 10 year horizon to 10x TSLA to $650bn. He did it in 2.

SPCX is maybe $1.25tr now - and he has a similar equity milestone deal to just 5x to $7.5tr. Its a big number. For comparison, NVDA is already $5.2tr+

So my guess is people will assume any investment in SPCX will be a 5x return in a short period of time.

Also a company this large will get swept into many indexes, including the S&P500 - so most investors will own it by default.

New comment by anonu in "There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US"

anonu — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:28:26 +0000

It's an irrelevant point because ETFs incorporate more than just US stocks. You have global stocks (tens of thousands), options (a million expirations), bonds (3 million cusips) , crypto, futures, and the list goes on. And it becomes a combinatorial exercise...

The article is pointing out the lack of publicly listed companies in the USA. But we also have private stock in ETFs now. And not to mention a handful of blockbuster IPOs on the horizon, like SPCX.

New comment by anonu in "Ferrari Luce"

anonu — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:16:17 +0000

Lots of comments saying it looks ugly. I don't agree. But the $650,000 price tag is not pretty - that I can agree on. I know people will pay that.

New comment by anonu in "Hacker News front page as a site"

anonu — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:23:06 +0000

i love it. would be cool to get the date lookbacks too - like this https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-22

New comment by anonu in "TorQ: Kdb+ Production Framework"

anonu — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:00:08 +0000

This used to be aquaq. What happened?

I liked this framework when I used it years ago but I've become disillusioned with kdb.

I can ask Claude to write specialized rust based tick processing tools so quickly now. So the baseline use case for kdb is eroded away, at least for me.

I love kdb as a distributed services framework. But if I can write it with redis and python with Claude support in all the boilerplate I'm more likely to go that route.

New comment by anonu in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

anonu — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:42:12 +0000

tinkercad

New comment by anonu in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

anonu — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:27:02 +0000

There's almost no real privacy online in the US. When I search for my name my phone number and almost every address I've ever lived at it is publicly retrievable - on multiple sites. Even with a private WHOIS I get spam from various companies via my registrar asking to speak to me about making a website.

New comment by anonu in "Redstone – a faster PortfoliosLab with a one-click portfolio optimizer"

anonu — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:23:44 +0000

Looks cool at first glance. But these things are nearly impossible to monetize. I've tried... Many of these tools are out there and free. The limited history will cause a lot of users to run into roadblocks. There's over 5000 US listed ETFs now. Any serious back test will include the dot com bubble, the GFC and COVID market shocks, and much more. Looking at the last 5 years seriously biases your portfolio.

New comment by anonu in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

anonu — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:32:41 +0000

Ultimately, it speaks to people's lifestyle choices. In the US people are used to a particular standard of living: driving big cars and eating big steaks. If you tell people you can't have those things, they will have a visceral reaction. Politicians caught wind of this and turned it into a divisive left vs right debate. Im oversimplifying, but at the core its an incentives problem: Why should I tighten my belt today for some future payoff I may not even be around to see?

New comment by anonu in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

anonu — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:44:48 +0000

Worked with many Polish developers for the last 8 years. Great group, very talented. However, the initial motivations to go there were to keep costs low. Eventually they saw their salaries increase 3x or 4x over the years. They totally deserved it, but the economics change if you're running a startup. Now with AI, not clear if the tech outsourcing dynamic will remain.

New comment by anonu in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

anonu — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:36:20 +0000

I've never done crossfit but it feels like it might be conducive for socializing given the format.

New comment by anonu in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

anonu — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:35:36 +0000

Presumably you can run open model in your own infra

New comment by anonu in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

anonu — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:49:55 +0000

There are way more ways to be anti-social.