Hacker News: okhobb

New comment by okhobb in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

okhobb — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:13:49 +0000

The purpose of prediction markets is to communicate insider knowledge.

New comment by okhobb in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

okhobb — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:33:15 +0000

Is CEO likeability a reliable predictor?

New comment by okhobb in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

okhobb — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:03:18 +0000

I'll give that and agree the underlying is a quibble.

New comment by okhobb in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

okhobb — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:43:11 +0000

Pretty sure Ramp uses Elixir.

New comment by okhobb in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

okhobb — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:33:29 +0000

No one is forcing you to give birth in a hospital. Rational people do it at home all the time to this day.

New comment by okhobb in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

okhobb — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:42:28 +0000

Figma is also one dude.

New comment by okhobb in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

okhobb — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:41:49 +0000

I'm sure if the original developer bothered to show up again he could fix it in a weekend.

New comment by okhobb in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

okhobb — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:39:42 +0000

HN users want to know if you're allowed to host the whole Internet on it.

New comment by okhobb in "Pain Points of OCaml"

okhobb — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:00:07 +0000

My favorite part about Ocaml is the type checker fwiw. Pretty much as soon as I appease it I'm guaranteed a 'working' program that usually does what I intended.

New comment by okhobb in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

okhobb — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:43:53 +0000

Wait until you hear about how much wealth Salomon Bros extracted from the market.

New comment by okhobb in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

okhobb — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:04:52 +0000

I suspect the root argument is really against the efficacy of markets and capitalism as a useful system for humanity, in which case I say that is a fair debate. The benefits are hardly obvious today.

New comment by okhobb in "macOS Tahoe"

okhobb — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:29:28 +0000

Lol same. Wasn't there something like it in System 7 that also got deprecated. I think back then it was called "Launcher" ... https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Launcher

Launching seems easy enough from Finder but you never know about innovation.

New comment by okhobb in "Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud"

okhobb — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:41:17 +0000

How does this play out? They pay a fine? Tim Cook is extradited? Something in between?

New comment by okhobb in "Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?"

okhobb — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:08:10 +0000

'Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets' by Peter van der Linden

New comment by okhobb in "Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)"

okhobb — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 06:52:06 +0000

Is the voltage the reason power lines are buried in Europe? I do wish we would do so in the US.

New comment by okhobb in "Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse"

okhobb — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:28:03 +0000

Correct. It would be hard to find a stock where some combination of these players were not the largest shareholders based on the aggregation of all their managed funds.

New comment by okhobb in "First Republic Bank files 8-K – Tech only 4% of total deposits; no sector >9%"

okhobb — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 04:40:07 +0000

This might be downvoted due to the FED finger point, but that aside it is exactly right. A responsible banker would have invested in floating-rate securities or hedged the fixed-rate risk via interest rate swaps. SVB was certainly sophisticated enough to know this.

New comment by okhobb in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

okhobb — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:48:27 +0000

Pretty sure the Fed "wants" to bring up unemployment. I.e. make wage inflation decrease. To put it another way, they want everyone to feel more poor so they spend less frivolously.

New comment by okhobb in "Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?"

okhobb — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:49:43 +0000

I've found NestJs to be a very thoughtful application framework. I'd argue it demonstrates pro-level typescript coding.

https://github.com/nestjs/nest

New comment by okhobb in "We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX"

okhobb — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:01:34 +0000

> My concern is how much funding FTX and SBF in particular were giving to EA/AGI Safety research labs and charities.

Did a malicious AI orchestrate this downfall?