Hacker News Reader

k-i-r-t-h-ion How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ

power law explains the distribution, but the distribution is getting more extreme over the years, likely due to (market structure, macro conditions, tech economics, etc)

k-i-r-t-h-ion The rise of AI as a threat to the S&P 500 [pdf]

trading =/= investing

k-i-r-t-h-ion Comet Browser by Perplexity

Anyone know how they are building this? Is it a fork of chromium?

k-i-r-t-h-ion OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

Tactically pretty interesting - even if they fail or aren't that serious about this, it forces Google to scramble energy and resources into defending their turf. Attention spent defending is attention not spent elsewhere.

k-i-r-t-h-ion How much I have(n't) made angel investing

SPY is up ~4x since 2012 - maybe a good time to remind folks to reconsider being more passive (at least with their stock picking)

k-i-r-t-h-ion Yale sells up to $6B of its PE portfolio amid federal funding challenge

Seems like that might be close to 25% of their alt investments. This sounds rather serious.

> the endowment’s value increased to $41.4 billion on June 30, 2024, up from $40.7 billion on June 30, 2023

https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/25/yale-reports-investment-ret...

> Yale’s investment strategy depends heavily on alternative investments. As of 2019, they made up about 60 percent of Yale’s portfolio.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/10/24/yales-endowment-ex...

k-i-r-t-h-ion Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines

I was wondering why there wasn't a DOJ concern when Amazon Go did the same thing:

> Amazon Go: Early on, Amazon was clear that it was testing “Just Walk Out” tech — and it was known (at least in tech circles) that they had humans reviewing edge cases through video feeds. Some even joked about the “humans behind the AI.” > Their core claim was that eventually the tech would get better, and the human backup was mostly for training data and quality assurance. > They didn’t say, “this is 100% AI with zero human help right now.”

> Nate: Claimed it was already fully automated. > Their CEO explicitly said the AI was doing all the work — “without human intervention” — and only used contractors for rare edge cases. > According to the DOJ, the truth was: humans were doing everything, and AI was just a branding tool. > Investors were told it was a software platform, when it was really a BPO in disguise.

k-i-r-t-h-ion I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares

Easy to hate on this, but the existence of these kinds of things is so fascinating. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of people are out there generating AI click bait because people or system somewhere allows / encourages / pays for this market to exist

k-i-r-t-h-ion The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas

Sigh... more exchanges. More fees. Worse execution for retail, better for trading firms.

https://www.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/

k-i-r-t-h-ion Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees

> Ultimately, investors mainly care about the returns

Not quite. It also matters how and when returns are generated. Some vol funds make 1–3% a year on average, but they still manage billions because when markets crash, they (presumably) crush it — and that’s when investors need them the most

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: Map of YC Startups

This is awesome! Are you able to also add F24?

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Yup, it's pretty similar to the reading list option on iOS! I think we can take that implementation further and focus more on making the user reading experience smoother on different platforms.

I don't know if you've had a chance to try out the browser extensions yet, but would love to hear your thoughts on them (it's how I primarily use it right now). It has keyboard shortcuts to let you interact with your reading queue. I think it helps make the process of reading smoother.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/q-by-mimicry-labs/...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/q-by-mimicry-...

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Changed the text color to be white now, so hopefully it is a little easier to read. Let me know if you have any issues or feedback!

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Ah, sorry about that! Was trying to keep it on the dark mode side, but I may have gone too far in that direction ha - let me see if I can change the color scheme really quickly to be at least white for the text!

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

What's your side project (if you don't mind sharing)? Would love to see other projects in this space!

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

I used to be a pretty big user of Pocket myself! I think it works really nicely as a bookmarking tool meant for archiving and aggregating links / resources. I realized what I wanted was something to help me get through my reading queue / content.

I mostly made Q(ueue) to be focused around my reading experience, instead of my collecting experience. I wanted it to be really easy to find that next article (which is why it's based around a queue). The browser extensions were meant to make it super easy to add things or retrieve the next entry and just start reading.

> BTW, I found the layout of the website to be a bit confusing. Perhaps in the side-by-side portion, there should be some sort of divider?

Yea, I think the main page needs a bit of rework for simplification. I think the tab/toggle approach would be nice - let me see if I can add that in to make it nicer!

> Also, thanks for thinking of user privacy here. It definitely makes me more likely to use the services, and I think it was very clever of you to create a dummy account that HNers can use.

Thanks! I really dislike having to create accounts for apps too, so figured it'd make it easier for other people as well. There was another commenter that mentioned it would be easier to just allow local offline access. I think I'll try giving that a shot soon - the dummy account isn't too scalable / will get swamped with content too quickly in the long term anyway.

(I haven't tried Instapaper yet, so will have to check that out in more depth before I can comment on that.)

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Yup, went down while I was asleep from the sudden spike in traffic from HN =)

Will try and make sure it doesn't happen again!

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

It sounds like the app crashed a little while after you downloaded it (I was asleep so didn't notice). Please try it again when you have a moment! Hoping you find it useful as well.

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Sorry! Just brought it up back. Had some issues with the load earlier earlier. Please check out it out again when you have a chance!

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

> You don’t strictly need one either. I understand why you’ve probably gone with one anyway.

Yup, I agree - it was really just for resetting the account password. I don't really bother validating the email at the moment, so it shouldn't be too hard to just make it optional like HN does.

> What’s your plan for monetisation?

It really depends on how many people start using the app. If they can all fit on a single server including myself, probably not going to monetize it because I plan on using it myself. My original plan was to create a "pro" version that adds functionality for power users (like having offline reader mode). I'm not really interested in going down the ads route, so that seems like the most likely prospect at the moment.

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Sorry about that - went down earlier from the load! It is back up now if you would like to give it another try!

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Thanks!

Yea, that's a great idea - it'd be really neat if folks could just use it locally without creating an account. Hoping I can get this added in the coming weeks!

In terms of how it's built - it's just vanilla code. The website and browser extensions are both build using plain Javascript + HTML + CSS. The backend server is in Python (uses FastAPI and Postgres for the DB). And the iOS app is in Swift.

I don't have much experience with React (/Native) yet so unfortunately no tips, sorry!

(and yup, sorry about that - buckled a bit under the load earlier, but is back up now - keeping an eye on the server now so hopefully no more issues!)

k-i-r-t-h-ion Show HN: I created an app to make my online reading experience easier

Hey HN!

Long term lurker here - hoping to share my side project, Q.

Like most people reading this, I normally start my day off by going through the first few pages of HN, finding articles I'd like to read. If your experience has been anything like mine, you probably also open up a bunch of tabs, read a few, and eventually close the rest (especially if Chrome is eating up all your memory!). It's pretty much the same process with other websites I visit as well.

I built Q(ueue... heh) to make my online reading life easier. I wanted a simple way to add and read articles while on my computer, so I made a browser extension that lets you do things with just keyboard shortcuts (Pressing "Ctrl+Shift+Space" adds my current page, while "Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow" fetches the next article in my queue - I can also right click add, which I find helpful when browsing HN).

In order to pick up where I left off with my phone, I created an app (on iOS only for now) that makes it really easy to add (via the share thingy) and read articles. You can even set it to open up articles in reader mode which I find gets rid of a lot of visual clutter on most pages (and annoying ads).

I've been using it for a few months now and have been quite happy so wanted to share Q with the community as well.

At the end of the day, this is really just an extremely minimal bookmarking app fine-tuned to how I personally wished they worked. I really hope you find Q useful as well!

I collect the bare minimum to create an account (username, email, and password) but I understand people might not want to create an account.

Here is an account you can use if you want to try it out first: email: hackernews-demo-user@gmail.com password: hackernews

Would love any feedback or suggestions on things to improve! You can also reach me at mimicrylabs@gmail.com as well.

Website: https://q.mimicrylabs.com/

Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/q-by-mimicry-...

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/q-by-mimicry-labs/...

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/q-by-mimicry-labs/id1552578757