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Show HN: SEC filing AI built by equity analyst and PM
by sleepydj | 2025-06-08 03:07:19+00:00
After manually analyzing filings for years as an equity analyst and running money as a long-only portfolio manager, I built an AI RAG system that I believe will be useful for people who are interested in deep fundamental equity research. I've tested our responses against major sell-side research and believe the quality is equivalent on many parameters to the responses that we get on calls with sell-side analysts at the major firms.

Key differences to some of the offerings out there currently: Pay-as-you-go model: No monthly/annual subscription needed. 1-click verify: AI models struggle with hallucinations, and we've put verification at the core of the system. With one click, get a secondary verification to catch hallucinations and errors in the responses. Multi-model system: We use 10+ models in the system. Users can pick what intelligence level (and cost) they want based on their needs. New models will be included if they improve results and optimize cost efficiency. S&P 500 coverage: Currently database is building up S&P 500 companies and coverage is being expanded continually. The ultimate goal is global coverage. Web research: Easily incorporate web research into your chat as well with a simple '/web' command. Helps to pull in data that is not in company filings.

The system is not built to provide advice or offer opinions. Just to discuss facts and generate valuable insights that you can use to form your own investment thesis.

The product is still very new, so I would love for the wonderful people of this community to give it a test drive. The ideal user is someone who is interested in learning about company financials and fundamentals. Please sign up on the site and email us at info@dfin.pro. I will be happy to deposit credits into your account. All that we ask is that you provide us with honest feedback (both negative & positive).

I look forward to hearing from you all and hope that you enjoy using dfin.pro!

Thanks.
by ehutch79 | 2025-06-08 03:08:26+00:00
Time is required to be a senior engineer, but time does not _make_ you a senior engineer.

You need time to accumulate experience. You need experience, time in the proverbial trenches, to be a senior engineer.

You need to be doing different things too, not just implementing the same cookie cutter code repeatedly. If you are doing that, and havent automated it, you are not a senior engineer.
by unstablediffusi | 2025-06-08 03:09:23+00:00
silencing the opposition creates an illusion of consensus. in the deluded minds of the terminally online, it is paramount to maintain that illusion.

in every remotely political discussion here, reddit opinions are allowed to be expressed as non-constructively as you please, but all dissent, no matter how factual and constructive, gets flagged within minutes.
by kfajdsl | 2025-06-08 03:10:56+00:00
I definitely think that there will be a far higher % of B than A in the future, but I also think it's accurate to say that the ratio of A:B was much higher in the 70s than now, even though there's a lot more A in absolute terms today. That's just what happens when you lower the barrier to entry.

There's definitely a cohort of on average much lower quality CS graduates though, between COVID and universities not knowing how to deal with AI (I say this as part of that cohort).
by cycomanic | 2025-06-08 03:11:52+00:00
Why does it blow away any other public transit? That can't be true because if you put the same self driving tech into a bus, you already am an order of magnitude cheaper per passenger (likely more). Moreover let's assume robotaxis are cornering the market and make all other forms of transport non viable. Why would the public then maintain the roads? So at that point at least costs are suddenly going to explode.
by jonstewart | 2025-06-08 03:12:31+00:00
I have been thinking about this more, about how I spent hours and days exploring everything of my family’s new Mac SE, and then HyperCard, and creating with it.

There is an aspect of creativity that comes from being inspired, taking off from others’ ideas.

But there is also an aspect of creativity that’s more ascetic, and requires being bored—when there’s nothing else to do, turn the computer into a toy, to play with it, so you are not bored. And I am increasingly of the opinion getting to that state, at least for me, requires turning off the internet.
by aaronchall | 2025-06-08 03:13:00+00:00
> Hitler was akshually a leftist

Have you not read his very consistent and personally defended party platform? He also said that the communists were close enough in ideology to join his party.

The idea that the communists were the opposite of the Nazis and fascists was an idea spread by the communists to create confusion and try to improve their own image.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-08 03:13:08+00:00
True. I showed up at Apple in '95 after Color Quickdraw was already a thing.

Hilariously though, I did get handed the color pickers to "port" to PowerPC. In fact one of the first times I thought I was in over my head being at Apple was when I was staring at 68030 assembly and thinking, "Fuck, I have to rewrite this in C perhaps."

From your username, I feel like we've chatted before (but I don't know your real name).
by Night_Thastus | 2025-06-08 03:13:41+00:00
Just because you enjoy it doesn't mean the game doesn't have problems, or it didn't have a negative affect on BGS's image. The reviews vary location to location, but on Steam it's at 55%. That's unfathomably bad for a Bethesda open-world RPG title.

A lot of people bought Starfield because it was a Bethesda game. A lot of those people will re-consider the next time such a game comes out.

Even years later, people are willing to put up with all of Skyrim's jank, bugs, performance problems, terrible animations and visuals, bad story and the rest because the core gameplay loop of exploration is so strong. It carries the entire game.

Starfield is missing that core that holds it together.
by nikkwong | 2025-06-08 03:13:44+00:00
The women voices all sound like the valley girl that you wish wasn’t invited to the party. The male voices, sound well, similar to that I guess id say. I’d like voices that sound more like ethnic people found the crowds that many of us interlope in, rather than the pompous ivy-league educated girlfriend you wish your friend didn’t have. The product shouldn’t so clearly advertise that it was developed in a San Francisco monoculture.
by rainygoodwill | 2025-06-08 03:13:46+00:00
Totally agree with you — “vote with your wallet” is the ideal world. But in India, many of us don’t even have a wallet to vote with.

I love open-source and recommend it to my students. But here's the ground reality:

Most Indian educators, especially older ones, are still on Windows

Switching to Linux isn’t just a tech decision — it’s a mental and cultural migration

And when you’re balancing 4 tuition sessions a day just to earn ₹1,000, you don’t have the bandwidth to learn GIMP when Canva just works

That said, I’m starting to move toward open source slowly (LibreOffice, Notion alternatives, Obsidian). If there’s a solid open-source PDF editor you recommend that works well in low-end systems, I’d love to try and promote it.

Appreciate your reply — this is exactly the kind of discussion I hoped to spark
by timr | 2025-06-08 03:14:26+00:00
> That's weird because I'm pretty sure that my point is explicitly spelled out.

Yeah I read it the first time, so repeating it is non responsive. The article was about one person's opinion on the subject of water filters. Your opinion is just one more in a sea of opinions. It's not like the author hid those numbers that you keep repeating -- you're just (again, repeatedly) saying they're scarier than the author felt they were.

> And if your trust is based on "Rah, rah, America!", you should know that 15% (!!) of water systems serving over 10k people have PFAS levels measured above what the EPA says is safe. (And if you don't think that 15% is a lot, holy smokes, that's nuts.)

Yeah, OK. So basically you just want everyone to be as scared as you are.

I don't have a strong opinion on the matter, but your "holy smokes, that's nuts" is worth approximately what I paid to read it. That goes for the author, too, btw.
by jjav | 2025-06-08 03:15:00+00:00
> Yes but speed cameras quickly turn into a revenue source for greedy councils.

This has been widely documented for red light cameras. Red light cameras are politically much easier because approximately nobody thinks blatantly running red light is ever acceptable (vs. speed limits which have a wide range of debate on what the correct number should be).

So, towns install red light cameras. And initially, it's good! Then when the town gets used to the revenue stream, they want more money. How to get more? They shorten the yellow light more and more and more so they can artificially increase the number of people "running the red light". What started as a good plan to punish people who blatantly run the light, becomes a gotcha trick programmed to maximize revenue at the cost of safety (rear end accidents increase substantially after people become trained to panic brake at yellow lights due to the excessively short time).
by HappMacDonald | 2025-06-08 03:15:20+00:00
One can model procrastination as a reaction to some form of mental pain. Doing the work hurts one in some way, so one subconsciously finds excuses to do something else instead.

But pain is a valuable signal, and often learning and resolving the root cause of the pain can be more valuable than reaching for the oxycodone to power past it.
by Spivak | 2025-06-08 03:17:44+00:00
Emojis being so sterile is so funny from the perspective of human communication. The fact that there isn't an 18+ pack and shit like eggplant and water spray get co-opted to fill the gap is such puritan thinking. There's such a fundamental disconnect with the standards bodies and implementers about what real people actually want to say to one another.

At least with letters we're free to say and invent words as we see fit but emojis have to be filtered by companies that consider ketchup to be spicy. You can say the most fucked up sexual shit with letters no problem but an emoji butt would be a bridge too far.
by cinquemb | 2025-06-08 03:17:56+00:00
It took me less than a day to start to be productive on my fork [0] for what i wanted to do. The default spacial units are actually microns (but yes they have their[1] examples multiplied by the inch conversion) and the wavelength stuff is in meters. But yes, technically its v0.0.1 so still rough around the edges.

Considering the vast majority of money in the space going into QEC software, I'm so grateful for their work. Was so much easier than trying to everything from scratch with my limited CAD work over the years.

[0] https://i.ibb.co/vCdFC7sp/iso-sep-debugging1.png

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14957
by mjrpes | 2025-06-08 03:18:04+00:00
> But running it is different issue. Notably, I have no idea, and have not seen a resource talking about troubleshooting and problem solving for a self hosted service. Particularly in regards with interoperability with other providers.

It's nearly impossible to get 100% email deliverability if you self host and don't use a SMTP relay. It might work if all your contacts are with a major provider like google, but otherwise you'll get 97% deliverability but then that one person using sbcglobal/att won't ever get your email for a 4 week period or that company using barracuda puts your email in a black hole. You put in effort to get your email server whitelisted but many email providers don't respond or only give you a temporary fix.

However, you can still self host most of the email stack, including most importantly storage of your email, by using an SMTP relay, like AWS, postmark, or mailgun. It's quick and easy to switch SMTP relays if the one you're using doesn't work out. In postfix you can choose to use a relay only for certain domains.
by dartharva | 2025-06-08 03:18:16+00:00
Chrome does feel faster to me; I remember someone here saying that was because of some kind of procedural loading shenanigans or something.

But the main hook for me is how websites look. I do a lot of reading on the browser, and fonts on Chrome always look better than on Firefox. I would switch to Firefox in a heartbeat if only things started looking the same on it.
by saghm | 2025-06-08 03:20:31+00:00
What does it even mean to be able to "do systems programming" but not actually be a "systems programming language"? I would directly disagree with you, but what you're arguing is so vague that I don't even know what you're trying to claim. The only way I can make sense of this is if you literally define a "systems programming language" as C and only other things that are tightly tied to it, which I guess is fine if you like tautologies but kind of makes even having a concept of " systems programming language" pretty useless.
by roughly | 2025-06-08 03:21:06+00:00
Yeah I got a couple places on my resume I don’t like to talk about anymore. Turns out an awful lot of things are bad for the world in the wrong hands.

Still, if I’m going to spend a third of my life on something - and, more importantly, if I’m going to be responsible for my efforts contributing to something - I’d prefer it be something I find value in. I’ll take the risk of being wrong - although I’m certainly looking at the world through less rose-tinted glasses than I used to.
Show HN: AStack – A composable framework for building AI applications
by qddegtya | 2025-06-08 03:21:17+00:00
AStack is a composable framework designed to simplify the development of AI applications through a "everything is a component" philosophy. It provides a zero-adaptation layer design that enables seamless integration between various AI models, tools, and custom business logic.

AStack is an independent technical framework with its own architecture and ecosystem, built on top of Hlang - a highly semantic fourth-generation language (4GL) inspired by Flow-Based Programming paradigms. This foundation on Hlang, which is particularly well-suited for computational modeling and AI-generated code, is what gives AStack its power. The framework emphasizes minimalism and performance, allowing developers to create complex systems with minimal boilerplate code while maintaining complete technical autonomy.

https://astack.tech
by LPisGood | 2025-06-08 03:22:52+00:00
> I asked you for evidence for this claim and you provided none.

My evidence is experience in the field and a knowledge of the many many publicly acknowledged data leaks that have happened in recent years. I’m not sure why you’re taking such a hostile tone; these things are well established.

I’m not particularly looking to have a formal debate where I dig up sources and you refute them; I’m only saying what is quite clearly true.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-06-08 03:23:41+00:00
> This wikipedia page begs to differ

Nothing in that Wikipedia article disagrees with what I wrote.

> The alternative to bailing out the banks is bailing out the people who had money in the banks

At the scale of the 2008 financial crisis, figuring out individual investors to help recover from bad assets is going to be far more costly than simply keeping the banks solvent.

> I'm mad they got away with their crimes then and I'm mad again that Biden saved Silicon Valley Bank

That also didn't happen. SVB is gone.

> The income gap got wider under his presidency too.

There's only so much he can do without Congress, but income inequality had begun to decrease towards the end of his presidency. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-income-gap-began-to...

> and ofc he pushed hard for the TPP- which even the senate seemed to think was too corporate.

TPP was a trade deal to increase trade between Asian countries (excluding China) and the US to reduce trade dependence between the signatory countries and China. The US negotiates provisions to ensure worker and environmental protections that these countries are not incentivized to do otherwise. Trump's withdrawal from the TPP was a disaster.

> Even with the public option which he floundered on it wouldn't have brought us up to Europe

Read the link I posted in my previous comment. Obama didn't even have the votes for a public option. Completely overhauling the medical funding system from scratch was and remains a nonstarter, both politically and logistically. A growing public option could have gradually led to a Medicare-for-All system.

> If Trump can restructure the whole government with barely a majority.

He also has the SC, which Obama never had, giving him sweeping executive power.
by Anamon | 2025-06-08 03:24:01+00:00
This is also one of my predictions. LLM scrapers have made me add the "no derivatives" descriptor to the default CC license I publish all of my writing and side-projects under (for now, CC considers ND a valid legal defense against LLM scraping).

I still do stuff in the hopes of it benefitting anyone - but not parasitic oligarchs who are responsible for the imminent destruction of the world and society.

I don't know if a reasonable number of spare-time creators, authors, artists etc. feel similar about these things, but if they do, I'd expect a lot more content under non-free licenses in the future, that might've been published openly otherwise.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-06-08 03:24:40+00:00
I find that shutting off one's brain and just slogging through a task leads to work quality on a par with AI slop.

So if one really is as uninterested in the quality of the output as you suggest, perhaps it might actually be better to dump the problem into Claude/Gemini/Cleverbot and just copy/paste/act upon the results verbatim and then mark the checkbox as "done" and move on.

For me personally, the pain of such efforts is ordinarily from making sure that the output is correct when the input is largely guesswork or speculation that always leads to hunting through a morass of poor documentation of some library or seeking a workaround to some irritating problem or rolling the dice on what the risk to various decisions might prove to be over the future: "eh, duct tape this and it ought to hold".

And most notably that doing more of this work correlates to an exponential rise in the volume of similar work that will be required down the road to maintain the same results.

Those are often exactly the time one would be best served by taking a step back and questioning the entire framework that supports the busywork in question. Perhaps starting from scratch or making some huge change would reduce the garbage portions of the effort and keep them from further proliferating?
by andrewflnr | 2025-06-08 03:24:44+00:00
> or it's just Elon repairing his image and trying to rescue Tesla (whose sales are cratering)

I'm not going to say for sure that it's true, but this is not a conspiracy, or even a super genius move by Elon. I think it's a very natural and plausible instinct given the circumstances. He can't have avoided noticing the crash in sales, and the back of the mind can realize things the consciousness is in denial about. It would just register in his mind as "need to detach my image from this enemy".
by LAC-Tech | 2025-06-08 03:27:13+00:00
Kernels are big pieces of software. Rust is used for device drivers mainly, right? So in that case you write an idiomatic rust lib and wrap it in a C interface and load it in.

Actually interfacing with idiomatic C APIs provided by an OS is something else entirely. You can see this is when you compare the Rust ecosystem to Zig; ie Zig has a fantastic io-uring library in the std lib, where as rust has a few scattered crates none of which come close the Zig's ease of use and integration.

One thing I'd like to see is an OS built with rust that could provide its own rusty interface to kernel stuff.
by lutusp | 2025-06-08 03:28:37+00:00
My time with Atkinson came before the Macintosh, before Hypercard. As a company Apple was struggling and we were preparing for what, in retrospect, was the really terrible Apple III. It was a less optimistic time -- after the Apple II and before the Macintosh.

A digression: the roster of Apple-related pancreatic cancer victims is getting longer -- Jef Raskin (2005), Steve Jobs (2011), now Bill Atkinson (2025). The overall pancreatic cancer occurrence rate is 14 per 100,000, so such a cluster is surprising within a small group, but the scientist in me wants to argue that it's just a coincidence, signifying nothing.

Maybe it's the stress of seeing how quickly one's projects become historical footnotes, erased by later events. And maybe it's irrational to expect anything else.
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2025-06-08 03:30:45+00:00
That is true. But the dubiousness of the whole thing starts a long way before that. Why is Musk there at all? Because we are sliding into neo-feudalistic conditions in which a court of the richest people steer the affairs of state and shape them in their own favor. And we've known what Trump is like all along. We didn't have to deduce that from the fact that he is now quarrelling with Musk.
by itsanaccount | 2025-06-08 03:32:33+00:00
Considering the underhanded tactics of showing up to immigration hearings, ignoring the law, ridiculous language (invasion of criminals seriously?) and fascist errata of ICE (masks, body armor, no name tags), you posting that sentence is bullshit.

No 2/3rds of America doesn't support this. If people want to have a reasonable discussion of the loophole to the Posse Comitatus Act they should avoid people who try to manufacture consent like the parent poster.
by devrandoom | 2025-06-08 03:34:34+00:00
I've done that too. Especially if I have to stop working, but I'm in the middle of something. There are no compilation errors or tests failing but the feature isn't completed.

Introducing a syntax error is like a saved game, portal back in time. I'll come back to it tomorrow and it'll take me max one minute to reload the context into my brain.
by _ncyj | 2025-06-08 03:35:14+00:00
I think responses would significantly differ depending on wording and context. Most people probably don't think much about "illegal aliens", and it's the negative wording that makes them instinctively support deportation. Given current events and the scale at which deportations are being carried out, I would suspect a much lower amount of support.

In terms of statistics I could find: > An AP-NORC poll, conducted from January 9 to 13 among 1,147 adults, found that 83 percent of Americans support deporting migrants living in the U.S. illegally who have been convicted of a violent crime, while only 6 percent would oppose doing so. > Americans are more split on deporting all undocumented migrants. The poll found that 43 percent support doing so, with 37 percent against.

Still a surprisingly high number but given the qualifier of "all" illegal immigrants, it's definitely not a majority.
by jobless10000 | 2025-06-08 03:35:51+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m building startup (I call it Llex, have available version in App Store and Google Play) — an app that helps each side of sport club like members and parents (so its not just management software for admins only) where they would be able to connect with multiple sport clubs, can see their roster in real-time, register for club events, manage billing and many nore. So everyone can have own platform to comminate, manage their sport life.

In bigger perspective I see it like a "map" app where u can find any sport club, register for first session, and apply for membership in one click.

Would love your thoughts:

- Is it something really useful for you if you or your kids doing any sport activity? - And like in general if that idea have any sense?

Thanks for any feedback!