Hacker News: financetechbro

New comment by financetechbro in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

financetechbro — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:34:37 +0000

Waterfall style

New comment by financetechbro in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

financetechbro — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:36:01 +0000

I think the broader issue is that Meta has been evil for pretty much all of history so you can’t rationalize remaining employed there as simply a factor of the current job market (ofc this primarily applies to more tenured Meta employees)

New comment by financetechbro in "Incident with Actions – Resolved"

financetechbro — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:47:32 +0000

I see six different 100%s on the page

New comment by financetechbro in "Write some software, give it away for free"

financetechbro — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:20:00 +0000

This is awesome. I’ve been interested in something like this for some time as I’ve been working on slowly indexing my mtg collection and selling cards I don’t want/need. Will be checking it out this weekend!

New comment by financetechbro in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

financetechbro — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:20:17 +0000

Zuck can just take out loans against his equity. He doesn’t need to sell any of it to benefit from Metas “worth”

New comment by financetechbro in "Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)"

financetechbro — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:33:08 +0000

Every time they raise new $, old shareholders get diluted. OAI has raised a lot of money

New comment by financetechbro in "Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database"

financetechbro — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:08:22 +0000

Something interesting about Apple distribution that i learned recently is that apples are harvested and then stored in atmospheric controlled rooms which causes ripening to stop. This allows apples to be stored for months after harvest and before distribution, which gives us year-around access to apples

New comment by financetechbro in "Waymo in Portland"

financetechbro — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:30:08 +0000

This is a false blanket statement. Portland has very short (walkable) blocks, many one way streets, and it is true that most often than not cars actively stop for pedestrians to cross the street

New comment by financetechbro in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

financetechbro — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:36:20 +0000

Cuba is making progress in this space. Good thing the US has been doing everything in its power to destroy the country

https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/us-citizens-in-cuba-for-...

New comment by financetechbro in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

financetechbro — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:24:07 +0000

The small Coke Zero cans make it tough to have just one. I typically will have 2 small cans with a meal which feels roughly equivalent to one regular sized can

New comment by financetechbro in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

financetechbro — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:03:29 +0000

What happens when Zuck is EOL? Does he transfer his Meta shares to a trust owned by the AI clone? Does that mean that we will have to deal with Zuck for literally forever??

New comment by financetechbro in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

financetechbro — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:06:05 +0000

There is too much friction in the audit process… someone needs to solve this

New comment by financetechbro in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

financetechbro — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:51:26 +0000

uBlock Origin Lite works great for me

New comment by financetechbro in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

financetechbro — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:44:00 +0000

Is it just me or does MicroMika kinda resemble Rocky from Project Hail Mary?

New comment by financetechbro in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

financetechbro — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:02:08 +0000

Cat + bottle cap around the hours of 3am - 5am seems to be a preferred form of entertainment, from my experience

New comment by financetechbro in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

financetechbro — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:12:08 +0000

Unless they’re EVs tho right

New comment by financetechbro in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

financetechbro — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:59:54 +0000

Ah understood. It will be fascinating to see how this plays out… OAI needs money one way or another. Thanks for the discourse

New comment by financetechbro in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

financetechbro — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:54:57 +0000

Current valuation of OAI is $840bn. 10% float is $80bn, largest US IPO was BABA at $24bn, how is this not massive?

New comment by financetechbro in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

financetechbro — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:10:06 +0000

I was in the capital markets during the COVID era, focusing on transactions for tech companies. I will take the bet that if OAI tries to IPO it will be WeWork 2.0 x100. Get ready for an even more creative version of “Community adjusted EBITDA”

On the real though, I am not sure how a 20yr veteran can say this is the best time for an IPO. Not only is a 10% float still absolutely massive, but the world is extremely unstable with the war in Iran and the US is in a recession when you factor out inflated growth driven by AI. Not to mention the Yen carry trade unwinding - there is so much loaded in the economy ready to blow up… I think the facade will collapse if OAI actually goes for it.

New comment by financetechbro in "UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence"

financetechbro — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:45:07 +0000

Calling farts “Quantity of Wind” is peak class. I will adopt this nomenclature