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The aftermath of Trump-Xi summit: comparing U.S. and China announcements

kaycebasques — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:08:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/22/g-s1-123647/comparing-u-s-and-china-announcements

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240089

Points: 3

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Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?

kaycebasques — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:55:41 +0000

Few seem focused on it anymore, which means that there's probably a bunch of interesting innovations underway. I know that there are some well-informed true believers lurking here. What's new in crypto?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238442

Points: 5

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SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

kaycebasques — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:03:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/spacex-ipo-musk-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231815

Points: 61

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Trump leaves China with no agreement but cites 'good' talks with Xi

kaycebasques — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:08:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-leaves-china-no-agreement-thorny-issues-cites-good-talks-xi-rcna344054

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151844

Points: 6

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Zig versus Rust in 2026

kaycebasques — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:27:20 +0000

Article URL: https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/zig-vs-rust-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104187

Points: 7

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Alcatraz coyote swam from Angel Island, not SF

kaycebasques — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:16:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/alcatraz-coyote-unexpected-origin-22241335.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027180

Points: 1

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SF sets $3.4B price tag for public takeover of PG&E

kaycebasques — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:50:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-pge-public-takeover/4072644/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875751

Points: 3

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US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous

kaycebasques — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:37:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxd0xxp0jko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875629

Points: 165

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Improved Japanese phonetic name support in Chrome autofill

kaycebasques — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:25:17 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/japanese-phonetic-name-autofill

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839297

Points: 1

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Ukraine's Second Miracle Year

kaycebasques — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:30:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-second-miracle-year-putin-trump-zelensky-war-drones-oil-exports-robots-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836635

Points: 4

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New comment by kaycebasques in "The seven programming ur-languages (2022)"

kaycebasques — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:47:33 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813496

New comment by kaycebasques in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"

kaycebasques — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:48:59 +0000

This also means that the pre-2018 index had a fundamentally different portfolio of companies. So comparing today to anything pre-2018 is apples-to-oranges

I recall that there's an "extended tech" ETF that does a pretty good job of actually capturing the whole IT universe. Pretty sure I'm thinking of IGM: https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239769/ishares-north-ame...

New comment by kaycebasques in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"

kaycebasques — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:51:28 +0000

Aside: why are Alphabet and Meta bucketed into the Communications sector rather than the IT one? Meta kinda makes sense, but Alphabet much less so.

Are there any other notable IT companies that aren't actually part of the S&P500 IT sector?

Edit: Apparently this happened in 2018 and is known as the de-FAANGing of the IT sector. I.e. FAANG used to all be lumped in a single sector. ^SPX tried to redistribute to spread the companies across different sectors. AMZN is another notable company now outside of IT sector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_services_sector_...