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And my question would be, why did it get to the top of Hacker News? I tried making a website like this and failed to get much notice.

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Because as many here would probably not like to accept, HNers are just as prone to social engineering as the guy on Facebook who signs up for the app that can supposedly revert his Facebook page back to the old design.

HN can be gamed quite easily, for this and other reasons.

Since you're near the top of this thread, which itself is sitting at the top of the HN front page, why not link to your site here? I wouldn't mind.

Eh ... that would be spammy. And I gave up trying to work in quant finance. Instead I'm returning to what I know: entrepreneurship.

I've been interviewing technology interns at a finance company and every single one has said "I'm very quantitative and want to learn more about high frequency trading." I haven't been able to figure out what they mean by that. I think they just heard that's where the money is.

Seems to characterize that labour market. Lots of math, stats & CS people have heard that they can turn brains into $ through the magical zero-sum game of the markets. Thank ederman.

Then again, how do most people choose their careers.

- I like video games, so I'll be a programmer.

- I want to be a ballerina / baseball player / rock star / etc.

- Read a sci fi book and now want to do genetic engineering.

- Read My Life As A Quant and want to be a quant.

A friend of mine is a life sciences lawyer at a firm that bills upwards of $800/hr ... his reason for choosing that path was watching the movie Gattaca. Not joking.

"HN can be gamed quite easily" is precisely what Zed proved yesterday with programming mofo.

You can't predict every variable. Sometimes one vote helps bring it to the front page and it picks up steam. I suspect the Instagram brand gave this website extra attention.

She is cute...

So her being a cute girl has nothing to do with her getting attention for this website (which I personally think is cool)?

Reminding people of the ugly truth leads to down votes ...

Yeah the down vote response was funny. It's as if cute girls in tech(replace with almost anything that is male dominated) aren't praised by males. Aside from her being an outlier, I think that the site is well designed and witty and makes a good case for her to be hired by instagram or anyone else.

Are websites with vanity urls the new cover letters?

www.f*&kCompanyAIloveCompanyZ.org

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