Hacker News: vfxGer

New comment by vfxGer in "Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles"

vfxGer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:33:09 +0000

No one is calling this journalism especially not me.

New comment by vfxGer in "Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles"

vfxGer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:28:35 +0000

Berkshire reports employees across its consolidated subsidiaries, while Welltower's 335,000+ operating-partner employees work for separate companies. I'm using reported employee counts consistently, but you're right that different corporate structures make comparisons imperfect.

New comment by vfxGer in "Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles"

vfxGer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:47:38 +0000

Fair point, I was aware of that and mention it in the accompanying blog https://bigwhalehunting.com/blog/workforce/

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

vfxGer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:05:39 +0000

I was playing around with visualising the S&P 500 by market cap and decided to add employees to each company's bubble.

What surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked.

Nvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only 42,000 people. That's around $124 million in market cap per employee. Meanwhile, Accenture employs 814,000 people and is worth $146 billion.

Each stick figure represents 10,000 employees. You can zoom in and explore individual companies.

I wrote a bit more about what I found here: https://bigwhalehunting.com/blog/workforce/

Would be interested to hear what you think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232312

Points: 177

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I built my First Game Galazon

vfxGer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:42:27 +0000

Article URL: https://vfxger.itch.io/galazon/devlog/1578295/welcome-to-the-galazon-devlog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830239

Points: 1

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New comment by vfxGer in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

vfxGer — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:16:29 +0000

"When I arrived there were these gentle giants smelling of fcking gold and milk. They could do anything. Now look at them. Fat as fck, scrawny on meth or yoga." - Logan Roy

New comment by vfxGer in "How Banks Could Control Gun Sales If Washington Won’t"

vfxGer — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:36:26 +0000

I do not want my credit card to offer moral guidance, I want it to buy stuff were it is convenient. Where will it end, my bank telling me I have bought too much alcohol this month?

New comment by vfxGer in "Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses"

vfxGer — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:11:57 +0000

I am sick of seeing headlines about teenager hacker being put in jail. It's not because they are geniuses it's because of poor IT defense. The companies should be severely fined for criminal negligence.

Ask HN: Anyone ever program on their phone?

vfxGer — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:54:25 +0000

I don't mean program for your phone but writing scripts on your android or iOS device. Can you recommend any good apps to do this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212290

Points: 3

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New comment by vfxGer in "Inside the Mirrortocracy"

vfxGer — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:31:24 +0000

I agree, I wouldn't hire anyone just because they have my degree either BUT we need some qualifications to fill this gap otherwise the interview process will get more and more unwieldy.

New comment by vfxGer in "Inside the Mirrortocracy"

vfxGer — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:37:47 +0000

What I find infuriating is how all these companies think they are so unique with their interviewing process then ask the same inane questions. This is worse when the same questions are asked by different people at the same company.

College qualifications or any real qualifications are being dismissed by more and more people but the vacuum that has been left is being filled with crap like 15+ rounds of interviews and/or 12 hour interviews.

The hiring process is currently broken. I think the only fix is to have proper, trusted qualifications (again?).

New comment by vfxGer in "(Why) I quit Hacker News (2010)"

vfxGer — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:16:48 +0000

My main issue with Hacker News at the moment is that it is NOT NEWS! An article from 2010 about quitting hn is not news. I used to kid myself that I go here "to keep up-to-date" or find out what is happening. I used to think this was a valid news source but it is not. It's got some interesting articles that suck up my time but I've stopped kidding myself that it is news.

New comment by vfxGer in "Sacked Google worker awarded €110,000 for unfair dismissal"

vfxGer — Wed, 21 May 2014 12:33:19 +0000

More details in an earlier article http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/sacked-google-ma...

Facebook's anti-virus tool ThreatData

vfxGer — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:47:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/26/facebook_boosts_security_with_tower_of_babel_malware_tool/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7472590

Points: 1

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New comment by vfxGer in "Poll: Where are you currently living?"

vfxGer — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:00:03 +0000

Dublin, Ireland

New comment by vfxGer in "Where the Jobs Are in “Who Is Hiring” (June 2013)"

vfxGer — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:27:09 +0000

Anyone know where Ireland fits on this chart?