<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: stockresearcher</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stockresearcher</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:23:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stockresearcher" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "A Locomotive Named Big Boy Is Making Grown Men Cry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> traveling east of the Mississippi for the first time.<p>The author probably means “east of the Ohio [River] for the first time [since the restoration].”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:06:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990685</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Detroit ranked as having the worst air quality in the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Worst is now New York.  Should make that “association football championship” match they’re hosting tomorrow in an outdoor stadium with tickets costing many thousands of dollars quite “interesting”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:01:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957280</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "The Road to Housing Act Might Pass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking through the analysis of the legislation [1], I really don’t see how it makes much of any impact.  Places where it’s hard to build on purpose have little incentive to change, and places where it’s easy to build on purpose can make some minor adjustments to get a little extra free money from the government. But since it was already easy to build, nobody will build more.  Sorry to be so pessimistic.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48732/R48732.3.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48732/...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:08:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863231</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "CarPlay Is Additive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s federal regulations.  If the reverse camera screen doesn’t appear quickly enough, the car gets recalled and fixed.  This has happened to many manufacturers.<p>Ford, Toyota, Lexus, etc.  This notice from Tesla actually specifies the regulation:<p>> On affected vehicles, upon vehicle power up, a certain software configuration may prevent camera streams from being sent to the MCU for up to 11 seconds, causing a loss of rearview image for up to 11 seconds for drivers who shift into reverse during this time, which does not comply with FMVSS 111, S5.5.3.<p><a href="https://www.tesla.com/support/recall-loss-of-back-up-camera-feed" rel="nofollow">https://www.tesla.com/support/recall-loss-of-back-up-camera-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:59:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776569</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> you'd save $3149 USD flying from London to New York City<p>Hey, Infantino was ahead of the curve!  For the same price as an English MBP, you can get an American one and see the Three Lions disappoint against Panama!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:07:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673650</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In America, dude.  Pick your favorite engineering school and read syllabi for core classes such as statics.  Read department policies on number of tries you get on core classes before you’re kicked out of the civil engineering program.  They take certain things very seriously.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:31:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652414</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Illinois' Social Media Tax Is a Modern Stamp Act – and Just as Doomed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It probably doesn’t make a difference, but this isn’t a modern stamp act.<p>While the law states that platforms have to report the average number of monthly Illinois users, it clearly states that the tax is only paid on Illinois users that you’ve collected data on within that month.<p>This is new and novel; it may not make a difference in the end.  But it’s not a stamp tax.  You could avoid paying any tax by continuing to provide your services without profiling your users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:18:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652259</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My wife has a civil engineering degree.  There were a number of courses where partial credit was not permitted and the final exam was 2 questions.  It was common for students to take those courses 3 or 4 times before passing.  Giving a failing grade to only 1/3 of the class might get a professor investigated for making the class too easy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:10:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638851</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A long-ago colleague got a junk classic car and took night classes at the local community college to learn how to fix/restore everything.  He finished the degree and quit the tech job.<p>Anyone currently with a tech job can pay for it out of pocket and barely notice.  If it’s something someone thinks they may want to do, they should just do it.  Nobody says you have to switch jobs at the end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:11:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636253</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Illinois legislature passes bill with new digital taxes and social media fee"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also buried deep in that bill was a provision that will require AirBNB, VRBO and the like to collect and remit state and local hotel taxes on behalf of the property owners.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:10:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576968</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "The $3 Bag That Broke the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Attempts to inject malware</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576873</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "BlackRock private credit fund honours less than 40% of redemption requests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Major rule of investing:<p>Don’t panic, but if you do, panic early.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506090</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Your 401(k) is about to become Elon Musk's exit liquidity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A long time ago, 500 was about the largest nice round number that could be calculated in a reasonable amount of time.<p>No longer.  But it has an extremely valuable brand - did you know S&P has hundreds of indexes?  Do any others readily come to mind?<p>It was originally supposed to be “close enough” to the entire market.  We don’t <i>need</i> to do that anymore.  But they <i>want</i> to, to milk that valuable brand.  Profitability is an arbitrary rule for an antiquated index.  Let it die.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:51:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406248</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Your 401(k) is about to become Elon Musk's exit liquidity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Every index fund is different.”<p>Say that to yourself over and over until it sinks in.  Some funds were dumb ideas last year, and will be even dumber ideas next month.  You can change which one you have.<p>50 years ago the S&P500 updated every 15 minutes, because it took that long to calculate.  And that level was what it was 15 minutes ago.  Would you be surprised that we can now calculate the level of very complicated indexes in real-time?  You shouldn’t be: you could probably even do it on your smartphone.  The idea that we need to have indexes with exactly <i>n</i> stocks is antiquated.  The idea that we need to have indexes with simplistic rules that don’t actually mirror the ways that the markets work is antiquated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:59:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405183</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every single index fund is different.  They all have publicly available methodology guides; you can read them to understand how it works and to model various scenarios.<p>This particular one, the CRSP total market - which Vanguard uses for VTI - has a “modern” methodology that is thought to be very good.  Once every three months they re-rank the entire market and assign weights based on the market as of a particular point in time.  Then, a randomly-chosen number of days later, the fund (Vanguard) begins a weeklong reconstitution process in which they buy and sell stocks to reflect the new weights.  It is intentionally a weeklong process so that the market is setting prices and not Vanguard with the size of their orders.<p>The lockup expiry happens, the market reacts, the market is re-weighted, the index reconstitutes.  In that order.  The price of the stock has to survive the increased float to force the index fund to buy lots more shares.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364020</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strongly recommend reading this linked paper, written by CRSP folks:<p><a href="https://indexes.morningstar.com/insights/analysis/bltcd8e699d7880bc4e/mega-ipos-impact-on-the-crsp-us-market-indexes" rel="nofollow">https://indexes.morningstar.com/insights/analysis/bltcd8e699...</a><p>These IPOs will have minuscule impact on the indexes initially.  They will have a big impact if they can maintain share price in the first ranking/reconstitution <i>after</i> the lockup period expires.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:10:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361251</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361251</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Illinois budget – new tax on targeted advertising, social media data collection [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Targeted Advertising Tax - Page 6<p>Social Media Data Collection tax - Page 39<p>AirBNB/VRBO will be responsible for collecting hotel taxes - Page 68</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351308</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois budget – new tax on targeted advertising, social media data collection [pdf]]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB3019ham001.pdf">https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB3019ham001.pdf</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351307">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351307</a></p>
<p>Points: 8</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB3019ham001.pdf</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We use GH Copilot at work and this week sat for a presentation by GH about optimizing token usage and maximizing ROI on tokens used.  Anyone else get this presentation?  They didn’t have time for questions because they had to run and give it to the next big enterprise on their list…<p>They basically said that everything is too expensive, you have to watch it like a hawk.  It was as if they poured a bucket of cold water on the room.  People were wondering how they could do anything <i>faster</i> with all these strategies.  And then “sorry no questions. Bye!”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 12:40:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308093</link><dc:creator>stockresearcher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stockresearcher in "Software Engineers Are Obsolete"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I shared a link to my personal project with the interviewer. It was a website for learning how to program<p>> We, the developers, are no longer the gatekeepers<p>This word you keep using: I do not think you know what it means.</p>
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