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Re:Aries could be 'Unity for fintech' on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @05:52PM (#43108791)
Thanks for commenting, and congrats on the launch!

How did you come up with the idea for Aries?

Aries could be 'Unity for fintech'

Posted by joshdance on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:41PM
from the self-post dept.

Just found this super interesting project called Aries Engine. They're pitching themselves as the Unity/Unreal of fintech, which caught my attention. The idea makes sense - before Unreal, game devs would burn cash just building physics engines before touching actual gameplay. Similarly, fintech startups often die dealing with:Regulatory compliance Market data fees Infrastructure/broker-dealer...

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Re:Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:05PM (#38658819)
Amazing. Why doesn't Shopify built this natively?
Re:Where is Dalle2 for creating music from text prompts? on Saturday November 12, 2022 @10:35AM (#33574018)
I wrote the article, fun to find it here.

I thought about that quite a bit as I was researching. Image Generation Models were given an image and a caption. This allows CLIPT to work.

But then I thought, music actually has an official notation system of the Standard notation on 5-line musical staves.

Do you think this described the music? or merely informs how it is to be performed?

Ask HN: What platform are you building a niche site on in 2023?

Posted by joshdance on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:15AM
from the ask-hn dept.

If you wanted to create a niche site (articles monetize with ads or affiliate links) what platform are you building it on in 2023?Wordpress is probably the default.Webflow is new but their blogging interface is frankly bad.Ghost is an option but has less plugins that Wordpress.What would you choose?One wrinkle is that we want to include custom coded pages (calculators, interactive examples) as...

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Re:How to run an event that doesn't suck on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:21PM (#32882186)
I think it is a fine number. In my experience people need a ton of reminders. More than you think. I would contact people multiple times and always someone would forget. If you are not top of their memory stack, they don't remember.
Re:Frontier – An advance market commitment to accelerate carbon removal on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @10:16AM (#31003054)
Frontier is promising to buy $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030.

They have criteria such as Permanence, Cost, Verifiability etc.

Seems like a great program and we need many more like it.

Re:ISS Docking Simulator on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:58PM (#29814847)
It is really fun to try to dock in 4:06 while the Interstellar docking soundtrack plays.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interstellar/comments/gmiwgh/no_tim...

Re:Archaeological dig reignites debate over the Old Testament’s histor... on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @05:47PM (#29801930)
Could be. I think the most interesting part of the article is that they have identified a limit of archeology. They discovered wealthy and powerful groups that don't exist according to archeology because they didn't leave behind buildings. The royal purple dye was very interesting as well.
Re:Apple deleted films from my AppleTV and now forces to watch them th... on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:21PM (#29740986)
Yeah I would look for confirmation or sources before I start sharing this.
Re:Ask HN: 99% of people should choose Roth IRA? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:23AM (#29416451)
Great points. So how does someone know which to chose?
Re:Ask HN: 99% of people should choose Roth IRA? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:23AM (#29416438)
Valid. :)
Re:Ask HN: What's so bad about NFTs? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @12:25AM (#29412840)
1. Artificial digital scarcity is usually not needed. 2. It costs an enormous amount of energy to create this artificial digital scarcity. 3. If you own an asset you can generate revenue from it. With NFTs you can't really. The only way to generate revenue is to sell the NFT, for increasingly higher sums. 4. Someone will be left holding the empty bag at the end.

Ask HN: 99% of people should choose Roth IRA?

Posted by joshdance on Thursday December 02, 2021 @12:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Been looking for advice on which type of IRA to chose from, as I don't have access to a 401k.Most advice is 'if you will be in the same or lower tax bracket during retirement, chose Traditional, otherwise Roth.Which sort of sounds like 'if you can predict the future, choose x'But did more research and it seems like everyone should chose Roth IRA. 4 reasons why.1. Unless you’re an extremely...

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Re:Appflowy – open-source Notion Alternative on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @09:44AM (#29241060)
If this has offline mode and fast search, I am in.

We crashed Republic.co with our crowdfunding campaign

Posted by joshdance on Friday June 04, 2021 @09:09AM
from the self-post dept.

When preparing a campaign you always worry about your own site. You worry 'Will it be able to handle the visitors' etc.A reminder to worry about your partners sites as well.We launched a crowdfunding campaign at 7am ET today, and the partner site goes down.https://republic.co/bucket-list

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:41PM (#27319009)
Interesting reading the replies.

Twitter is the most valuable social network that I participate on.

Friends, ideas, connections all come from finding people talking about things that are interesting to you.

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