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New comment by camnora in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

camnora — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:17:35 +0000

Qwen is just crushing it overall. I regularly use 3.7-flash for everyday coding needs and it gets the job done.

New comment by camnora in "They lied to you. Building software is hard"

camnora — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:32:38 +0000

Not to mention selling it

New comment by camnora in "I'm addicted to being useful"

camnora — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:51:23 +0000

And I have a fear of rejection

United Healthcare Response to Wall Street Journal Article

camnora — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/newsroom/2025/2025-05-14-response-may-14-wsj-article.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998816

Points: 2

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New comment by camnora in "Ask HN: What are you doing now to profit from the current or upcoming recession?"

camnora — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:40:10 +0000

People living in homes financed with a generous rate (~3% like you mentioned) mortgage are unlikely to move - that's correct. However, that's not the only piece of the puzzle. Keep in mind that home builders have recently produced at the highest level since 2008 [1]. When you pair this with high rates [2], it's likely that we will see inventory sitting on the market.

[1] https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/new-home-sales-decreas...

[2] https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms

New comment by camnora in "Ask HN: What are you doing now to profit from the current or upcoming recession?"

camnora — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:11:29 +0000

They say you shouldn't try to time the market, which is probably good advice. However, my approach is/was:

- back in April, moved 401k fund from S&P allocation to cash equivalent (2% yield). Note: this wasn't a cash out, just reallocation.

- Bought long-dated treasuries (10 yr and 30 yr). Allocated through July and August. This one is not doing well, but allocation was sized appropriately (< 2% of portfolio).

- pooling any excess capital in a savings account until volatility calms down.

- have a couple rentals and plan to continue holding. It will be interesting to see some buying opportunities in the upcoming year or two.

New comment by camnora in "The Fed's $2.7T mortgage problem"

camnora — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:02:54 +0000

An increase of MBS offered on the market will cause mortgage rates to rise because there's too many loans for sale and not enough buyers. Buyers will demand higher and higher rates to make it worth their while.

New comment by camnora in "The Fed's $2.7T mortgage problem"

camnora — Wed, 18 May 2022 22:57:39 +0000

Oh neat, TIL. Thanks

New comment by camnora in "The Fed's $2.7T mortgage problem"

camnora — Wed, 18 May 2022 22:51:29 +0000

I think the idea is that the Fed is trying to tamper demand by softening the economy. Lower demand will inevitably help prices. It doesn't help much though if we get a "rough landing" and people can't afford food/housing because they're out of a job.

New comment by camnora in "The Fed's $2.7T mortgage problem"

camnora — Wed, 18 May 2022 22:37:35 +0000

> If the Fed sells mortgage securities that pay low rates at a time when prevailing rates are much higher, it will incur big financial losses that reduce the funds the central bank returns to the Treasury.

Why does this reduce the amount of funds to the treasury? The losses are on the Feds balance sheet. My understanding is that the Treasury is not involved here, but the article hints at them being affected. Is it implying that treasury yields will rocket higher???

> In that scenario, expect officials to face tough questions from Capitol Hill to explain why they've lost billions of dollars on behalf of the American people.

If the Fed takes a loss, doesn't this mean that base money supply increases? Sure it will be drawing liquidity out of the system, but in the long run, it will leave more money in the system compared to where they started with QE.

New comment by camnora in "Ask HN: How can I learn macroeconomics properly?"

camnora — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:06:49 +0000

Textbooks won't tell you about Brent Johnson's Dollar Milkshake theory. They also won't have insight on todays inflation and whether it's more similar to the 1970s or 1940s. Textbooks are great for finance fundamentals, but shouldn't be the sole source of macro.

New comment by camnora in "Ask HN: How can I learn macroeconomics properly?"

camnora — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:20:09 +0000

Here's a list of podcasts that touch on macro: - Eurodollar University - The Grant Williams Podcast - Grant's Current Yield - Hidden Forces - Inside Baseball with Old Chestnut - Keeping it Simple with Simplify Asset Management - Library of Mistakes - The Macro Compass - Macro Musings - The Macro Trading Floor - Macro Voices - The Market Huddle - Money Sense - On The Margin - Real Conversations - Real Vision Daily Briefing - The Rebel Capitalist Show - Super Investors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom - Wealthion

The best thing you can do is be open to hearing all opinion/theories. Some people will contradict others, but over time you figure out who is right and who is not.

In addition, I also watch a few indices in my stock app for a high level overview. These are the treasury yields, corporate credit spreads, dollar index, s&p 500, nasdaq, etc. I used to follow much more, but it's not needed for higher level macro.

New comment by camnora in "Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?"

camnora — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:54:27 +0000

I tend to keep my PRs small enough to where several can be submitted within a day. This being said, I tend to keep my changes un-staged.

When I'm ready to commit:

1. `git diff` to get an overall picture of what changes were made. Which parts of this diff can be packaged into an isolated commit?

2. `git add -p` This is where I selectively stage bits.

3. `git diff --cached` to verify that the staged items are all in place

4. `git commit` with a detailed message.

5. Repeat steps 1-4 until all changes have been committed.

6. `git fetch origin main && git rebase origin/main`

7. Finally, `git push`

When PR feedback is left by peers, some teammates prefer you to not rewrite commits and force push. This makes re-review easier for them (especially if you use the Github features around PR review).

I opt for rewriting commits if it's okay with team members. This way you don't have "fix typo" commits getting merged into the main branch.

Edit: formatting

New comment by camnora in "An almost perfect rsync over SSH backup script"

camnora — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:59:34 +0000

Does anyone have experience with Duplicati [1] or recommend it? I am tentatively looking to make the switch to something a little more sophisticated than manually tar-balling + rsyncing backups.

[1] https://www.duplicati.com/

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972) [pdf]

camnora — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:21:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria_for_modularization.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30138468

Points: 106

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New comment by camnora in "Gunicorn"

camnora — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:42:08 +0000

This article does a pretty good job of explaining how green events work. It seems that each of the threads will attempt to accept any/all incoming requests.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/07/costly/

Famous Einstein equation used to create matter from light for first time

camnora — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:31:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/einstein-equation-matter-from-light

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28220192

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe

camnora — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:47:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28035811

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by camnora in "U.S. Fed accepts $756B in daily reverse repo operation"

camnora — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:31:58 +0000

The podcast Making Sense by Jeff Snider and Emil Kalinowski dig into how the Fed functions and how dollars/collateral affect the (world) economy. Very interesting if you're looking to learn more about this. Jeff also has some very informative blog posts.

https://share.transistor.fm/s/b33f1c10

New comment by camnora in "Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud (2019) [pdf]"

camnora — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 22:34:45 +0000

Local-first software feels underrated especially in the UX realm. Peer-to-peer applications such as Manyverse load instantly due to not being blocked by network requests. My hope is that more apps are developed with a local-first mindset. CRDTs likely introduce additional complexity around data storage, so this would certainly be a drawback when considering local-first.