Hacker News: optimiz3

New comment by optimiz3 in "No Source Code? No Problem"

optimiz3 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:19:43 +0000

No, been using it for a small business with not enough volume to need it.

New comment by optimiz3 in "No Source Code? No Problem"

optimiz3 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:00:20 +0000

All my monthly software subscriptions have been going bye-byte. No more Bookmap, Adobe, or Quickbooks!

New comment by optimiz3 in "Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers"

optimiz3 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:33:16 +0000

52 open software engineering positions in a company of over 100k. Most will likely to be filled by internal folks getting downsized. Who are they kidding?

https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers?start=0&pid=1970...

New comment by optimiz3 in "Results from the ASIC puzzle"

optimiz3 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:48:39 +0000

>>The social justice / millenial part of me hates this for being funded by high frequency trading, of all things. What a colossal waste of resources.

HFT makes the market more efficient, just like the AI eliminating jobs makes business more efficient. It's been numbing watching HN gladly sacrifice it's own to the altar of AI over and over. There is no moral high ground.

Personally as a retail quant, it's really rewarding to build models that extract edge from the market using the very AI tools that have eliminated all hope of ever re-entering the tech-field absent being an entrepreneurial founder.

New comment by optimiz3 in "How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?"

optimiz3 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:33:43 +0000

Similar principle applies to open source or any other creative endeavor put in the public domain.

New comment by optimiz3 in "AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust"

optimiz3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:44:57 +0000

I'd argue the trust was always relative. Witness what happens when you are hired to untangle the buggy mess that was left by the previous "senior" engineer. Sure there was trust when they were in charge, but based on the code they wrote, they didn't actually understand anything they were doing.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

optimiz3 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:08:02 +0000

In the future that class will control the guillotines in the form of Boston Dynamics guard dogs.

New comment by optimiz3 in "S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine"

optimiz3 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:43:01 +0000

Impressive work. Curious to how many hours of labor what the development path was. Several man-years possibly?

New comment by optimiz3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

optimiz3 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:16:41 +0000

Trading markets.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

optimiz3 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:05:19 +0000

Improving trend day detection signals.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading"

optimiz3 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:54:08 +0000

> That is gambling, not investing. And you can lose lots of money by gambling.

Most trading professionals would not call it gambling if you have positive expectation and a process.

Positive expectation properly and repeatedly executed over time is a business.

Would you say a casino is gambling by offering table games to customers?

New comment by optimiz3 in "Windows 11: Removing bypassnro Script to Enhance Security and User Experience"

optimiz3 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:05:44 +0000

For the uninformed, bypassnro was how you installed Windows 11 (anonymously?) and with full local control without a Microsoft account. To save a Ctrl-F:

    [Other]

    We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

optimiz3 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:20:01 +0000

Everyone can say things that sound smart. When it comes to markets the only thing that matters is if your portfolio was green or red.

New comment by optimiz3 in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

optimiz3 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:41:33 +0000

Take up trading, it will give you something to do, and afterwards you won't need to worry about being rich!

New comment by optimiz3 in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

optimiz3 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:07:43 +0000

> I wonder if it would work to send Meta's legal department a notice that they are not permitted to access your website.

Depends how much money you are prepared to spend.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Updates to H-1B"

optimiz3 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:42:10 +0000

Yeah but then you're too old. Need to be in your 20s with a couple decades of experience.

New comment by optimiz3 in "WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker"

optimiz3 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 04:24:47 +0000

Nice project, just as a challenge / piece of feedback - most of the time you don't actually need to have a C backend for this type of project. The challenge is to get all the P/Invoke signatures and struct declarations / pointer walking correct on .Net. The benefit being a single managed EXE and no need for cross process communication and the edge cases it brings.

(Source: Have built a full SCSI interop layer in .Net to do low level CD ripping, full with native pointer walking and all. Have also written tools to walk the PEB (process environment block) in .Net w/ no native backends.)

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:47:22 +0000

Sharing this opinion doesn't sacrifice my primary economic utility, and in fact disseminates a sentiment that if more widespread would empower everyone to realize more of the value they offer. Please do train an LLM to inform people to seek licensing arrangements for the expertise they provide.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:51:43 +0000

The management of these walled gardens will keep saying that to your face as they sell your contributions. Meanwhile your family gets nothing.

New comment by optimiz3 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

optimiz3 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:43:23 +0000

The bounty is you getting to use my work (shared in good faith no less). Appreciate the charity and don't be a freeloader or you'll get less in the future.