Hacker News: westonplatter0

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

westonplatter0 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:09:51 +0000

Thomas Kurian (GCP ceo)

New comment by westonplatter0 in "I’m joining OpenAI"

westonplatter0 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:31:42 +0000

He also spent 13 years building [an] OCR document engine company (PSPDFKit) before becoming an "overnight" vibe coder success story.

Show HN: Aps – pull and sync AGENTS.md and Agent Skills across codebases

westonplatter0 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:52:47 +0000

I wanted a tool to pull down or sync Agentic files across multiple projects.

I didn't find a tool that supported the desired functionality, so I built what I personally wanted and needed.

Intended use cases - access my own private and public AGENETS.md and Agent Skills - access my company's AGENETS.md and Agent Skills - access open source AGENETS.md and Agent Skills - toggle parts of AGENTS.md on/off per the codebase I'm working in - easily work with files from local file system and github - agentic assets are version locked in a manifest file

https://github.com/westonplatter/agentic-prompt-sync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966735

Points: 2

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New comment by westonplatter0 in "Google Bond Sale"

westonplatter0 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:02:53 +0000

I'm don't know the inner works of the credit markets like some do, but only 90-150 bps over US risk free rates feel surprisingly low given Oracle's recent equity troubles

Google Bond Sale

westonplatter0 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:02:53 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-plans-sell-rare-100-113052311.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961692

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

westonplatter0 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:11:23 +0000

To make it easier for users to know what to expect, can you release a monitor for users to run locally?

I can understand setting limits, and I'd like to be aware of them as I'm using the service rather than get hit with a week long rate limit / lockout.

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature & outdoor heat exposure in Vegas"

westonplatter0 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:46:28 +0000

I remember seeing similar heat reduction claims in a more tropical, non desert env. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-c...

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"

westonplatter0 — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:57:23 +0000

It's ironic this came [out] the day after COIN is going to be added to the SP500.

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Launch HN: CommodityAI (YC W24) – Shipment management for commodity traders"

westonplatter0 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:31:39 +0000

cool to see innovation reducing Wall Street data entry friction.

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software"

westonplatter0 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:49:21 +0000

nah. Most of wealthy people I've interacted with have refined/specialized workflows that are something similar to 5 excel spreadsheets.

Build a tool that allows people to organize their 5 spreadsheet and you win.

New comment by westonplatter0 in "TreasuryDirect Is Down"

westonplatter0 — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:40:14 +0000

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/treasurydirect.gov.html#:~:....

TreasuryDirect Is Down

westonplatter0 — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:39:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36419031

Points: 1

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New comment by westonplatter0 in "Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]"

westonplatter0 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:34:33 +0000

Per https://news.wisc.edu/corn-that-acquires-its-own-nitrogen-id..., original research paper was published in 2018, see https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

New comment by westonplatter0 in "They say that stocks go down during the day and up at night"

westonplatter0 — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:40:25 +0000

There are reasons. Check out Cem Karsan and his views on option related flows, ie, Vanna and Charm. https://twitter.com/jam_croissant/status/1487959533058244615...

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Ask HN: How to best take advantage of the coming recession?"

westonplatter0 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:56:42 +0000

To rephrase your question, what are the structural alpha opportunities within economic slowdowns/recessions? Check out SSRN for those.

New comment by westonplatter0 in "The first time I'm aware that Meta is taking back signed, FTE offers"

westonplatter0 — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:55:26 +0000

Oil time spreads (1 month, 2m, 3m) indicate oil demand lessening as the future curve moves from backwardation to contango. More about backwardation vs contango = https://mansfield.energy/market-news/what-is-it-backwardatio....

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

westonplatter0 — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:41:50 +0000

Collection of python modules to run a one-person hedge fund. See https://github.com/westonplatter?tab=repositories&q=finx&typ...

New comment by westonplatter0 in "TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business"

westonplatter0 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:42:08 +0000

I can attest to this.

The small company I was working for got card tested (scammers use hundreds of stolen cards to see if they work). I called customer support and talked with a human on a Friday night at 8pm for 15 minutes about our options. 2-3 days later, I chatted with someone from the fraud team.

I was surprised by the high touch service even though didn't have a lot of volume (new account w/ less than $10k of transactions).

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?"

westonplatter0 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:32:03 +0000

+1 to this. I've worked in tech but never enjoyed the "upgrade the system every 2 years approach." Banks and financial services are now regulated to be slow, methodical, and dependable post 2008. I found a manager I respect in a group that does work I'm curious about (options/futures) so it's a good fit.

New comment by westonplatter0 in "Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP"

westonplatter0 — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 23:01:18 +0000

Same (but spent the last 4 years trading options as my main hobby)