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auc··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
"I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut." - NNTaleb
auc··on I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
https://xkcd.com/221/
auc··on Are two heads better than one?
For 4 vs 3, you’re saying the same thing.

He wrote:

If our number N of friends is odd, our chances of guessing correctly don’t improve when we move to N+1 friends.

auc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
Architect Financial Technologies | Chicago | Onsite / Remote | Full-time | architect.co

Architect recently raised a $35M series A and is looking to fill a number of software engineering roles.

As a key member of our growing team, you will help build out our advanced exchange which is the world's first centralized and regulated exchange for perpetual futures on traditional assets (FX, stocks, metals, interest rates, energy, compute, and other commodities).

Bonus points if you have:

- Experience with Rust

- Experience working in the finance industry, or a strong interest in electronic trading

- Knowledge of architecture, testing, and deployment of distributed systems

- Live in Chicago

Full-stack development experience with Typescript and React a plus

If you’re interested, please send a resume and brief intro to jobs@architect.co or reach out to me with any questions about the role

auc··on NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform
You definitely can, I know single people or small teams running strategies with 2+ sharpe making millions a year.
auc··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
This doesn’t work on my iPhone 16

Edit: after upgrading the software, it works

auc··on Fast Code Is Easy. Measuring It Is Hard
Agreed, not worth making a huge effort toward an advanced system for measuring an ATS until you’ve really built out at scale
auc··on Fast Code Is Easy. Measuring It Is Hard
Yeah definitely. Don’t want to have an algo that makes money when times are slow but then blows up/does nothing when market volume is 10x
auc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
Architect Financial Technologies | Chicago | Onsite / Remote | Full-time | architect.co

Architect is looking to fill a number of software engineering roles.

As a key member of our growing team, you will help build out our advanced, API-centric, multi-asset brokerage platform across stocks, options, ETFs, futures, and more.

Bonus points if you have:

- Experience with Rust

- Experience working in the finance industry, or a strong interest in electronic trading

- Knowledge of architecture, testing, and deployment of distributed systems

-Live in Chicago

*Full-stack development experience with Typescript and React a plus*

If you’re interested, please send a resume and brief intro to jobs@architect.co or reach out to me with any questions about the role

auc··on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
Bleed build for me
auc··on CeoGPT – automate your chief executive officer
Gotta lay off employees and issue buybacks
auc··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
So deserved.
auc··on Architecture Patterns with Python
Pure functions are also way more testable
auc··on Antidepressant use among teen girls and young women has skyrocketed (2024)
This website doesn’t give the absolute percentages, nor does it give hard numbers. Very annoying.
auc··on Bybit sees over $4B 'bank run' after crypto's biggest hack
The amount of BTC in circulation is increasing per year as well. There’s a finite amount of gold on Earth.

Real estate is definitely not “infinite”. Especially if you consider arable land and weather patterns.

auc··on Bybit Sees over $4B 'Bank Run' After Crypto's Biggest Hack
Finite amount of gold as well. Finite amount of bitcoin cash as well. Finite amount of real estate as well.
auc··on Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock
Wouldn’t it be the exact opposite, that the more people see it, the more likely it is to happen
auc··on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
Our understanding of migraines seems to be increasing exponentially
auc··on Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance
Cue Mr Krabs “for money” meme
auc··on No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here's why
And what will I do with this full BTC?
auc··on Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week
Anyone buying at a 5% discount is torching money
auc··on Is this the $200k ticket to cheating death?
“That there is currently no proof that organisms with brain structures as complex as humans' can successfully be restored exposes the concept as "preposterous", says Clive Coen, professor of neuroscience at King's College London.”
auc··on Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand – InfoQ
A reading of “The Nature of the Firm” is counter to this
auc··on Uncut Currency
First part of your comment is right, but your reasoning is wrong. A couple years ago, YouTube changed the visibility of negative comments, such that positive comments are prioritized (can’t like a comment if you don’t even see it).

This was also around the time they removed the thumbs up/down count.

This was to prevent creator burnout; imagine if every video you put out had some snarky diss against you in the comments.

auc··on Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2 almost doubles the storage it needs
I’m still not sure what Apple Intelligence does
auc··on A free, unlimited online PDF converter with Privacy focus
This looks pretty good, great job!

How are you making profit from this so that it’s sustainable?

auc··on Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
Pretty much, yes. Reading WSJ/NYT is fun but not productive at all
auc··on Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "write better code"?
I use VSCode + Copilot. For anything more than boilerplate code, I find that Copilot kind of sucks and I use O1 in ChatGPT
auc··on Court strikes down US net neutrality rules
You say this, but their share prices are pretty much straight lines up the last 10 years (other than a short lived dip during Covid).
auc··on Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
For confused readers, this is a reference to the movie American Psycho
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