Hacker News: baccredited

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

baccredited — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:55:09 +0000

Love it! I like the bash implementation for bare minimum on the dependencies

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

baccredited — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:42:13 +0000

"pw" a simple perl script that prints a random password. default length is 16 chars but if I do "pw 8" it will return an 8 char password

I use it all the time, at least a few times a week.

I wrote it because the secure passwords generated by iOS and various password managers are overkill for most purposes and extremely hard to type out by hand to an airgapped destination

New comment by baccredited in "The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city"

baccredited — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:28:22 +0000

there are some TDCS treatments for tinnitus that seem to work https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30359234/

But I'm pretty sure they are only available in the EU for now, not the USA

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?"

baccredited — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:07:27 +0000

I wrote the code that puts headers on USA federal court documents (PDFs). I see them all the time in the real world and still get a kick out of them

New comment by baccredited in "Instacart mulls direct listing in snub to IPOs"

baccredited — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:03:31 +0000

Goldman Banker Nick Giovanni to Join Instacart as CFO Ahead of IPO https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/goldman-b...

New comment by baccredited in "Instacart mulls direct listing in snub to IPOs"

baccredited — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:01:40 +0000

This year Instacart hired Goldman Sachs banker Nick Giovanni to be their CFO. He led multiple companies through a direct listing IPO, all from the banker side.

Interesting, right?

I'm surprised the Reuters article didn't mention this. I guess everyone is busy.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: Are there free APIs for Financial trading?"

baccredited — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:53:38 +0000

tradier.com API is free if you keep an account there. I do this and it is handy for many things.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: How do you send custom notifications to your phone?"

baccredited — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:08:15 +0000

I've used pushover for this as well. Nice perk: on iOS at least you can easily define a custom image and sound to go along with your message. This is FUN to use.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: Why Isn't Paulgraham.com on HTTPS?"

baccredited — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:43:25 +0000

My company spent precious developer hours this week 'fixing' old intranet websites that recently started giving Chrome 'insecure' warnings on internal links. HTTP is definitely not a risk in this scenario. And PG's website is not a risk either.

Google's war on http is misguided, dumb, and wasteful.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: How to buy shares pre-IPO?"

baccredited — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:09:26 +0000

One way to do so via a public company is to invest in: TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. (TPVG)

They make late stage investments in private companies. Read a few of their quarterly reports to get an idea of their recent deals.

There is no reliable way I know of to cherry-pick individual companies like AirBnB unless you are an accredited investor.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: How to Invest in Private Companies"

baccredited — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:27:12 +0000

One way to do so via a public company is to invest in: TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. (TPVG)

They make late stage investments in private companies. Read a few of their quarterly reports to get an idea of their recent deals.

There is no reliable way I know of to cherry-pick individual companies like Stripe unless you are an accredited investor.

New comment by baccredited in "The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business"

baccredited — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:55:42 +0000

Many private companies are staying private for longer, with an average time from launch to IPO creeping up toward 10 years or more. Most unaccredited investors are missing all of those substantial early gains.

Does LTSE have any plans to help speed the path to IPO and let more unaccredited investors participate in early growth and success?

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: Pulling all $ out of public equities. Interesting private alternatives?"

baccredited — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 11:48:52 +0000

To clarify on the FundersClub recommendation: don't do individual YC company deals, do the rollup funds like this:

Accelerate FC XIX: Y Combinator W18 Fund targeting investments in ~10-15 top startups in the Y Combinator Winter 2018 Batch.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: Pulling all $ out of public equities. Interesting private alternatives?"

baccredited — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 11:45:01 +0000

With a few hundred thousand to invest I'd probably do a 3-way split between:

https://www.thesyndicate.com/ - back Jason's next 50 deals at 2K each

Put 25K each into the next 4 YCombinator deals at https://fundersclub.com/

Put 50K in the next 2 quarters at AngelList Access Funds https://angel.co/v/access-fund

If you do any of this give me a follow at @baccredited and let me know how it goes. I just followed you as well.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: What Internet based checking account do you recommend?"

baccredited — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:46:07 +0000

>Are there any specific banks that I should avoid?

I like to avoid all of the bailout banks. These guys invested customer money irresponsibly and had to be rescued by the federal government: https://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/bankbail...

I ended up using schwab.com and have been happy with them so far. (Until recently I was with etrade, but they were bought out by Morgan Stanley.)

New comment by baccredited in "Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN"

baccredited — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 12:53:04 +0000

Wow - would love an RSS feed feature to subscribe to a search

New comment by baccredited in "Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram"

baccredited — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:48:08 +0000

Hey - I like the telegram choice for this. I know you are getting some questions about it but I prefer it actually. Not everything needs to be on the web, indexed, and archived forever.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: Best Book for Personal Finance and Investment"

baccredited — Sun, 03 May 2020 13:57:19 +0000

The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins

New comment by baccredited in "Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support"

baccredited — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:08:22 +0000

I have access to analytics for a big government site. 11% of all traffic in March 2020 was IE11.

New comment by baccredited in "Ask HN: Are we looking at a recession ahead?"

baccredited — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:12:06 +0000

Chamath Palihapitiya spent an hour answering all your questions. Worth a listen!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chamath-palihapitiya-i...