Sean Gong — Ex-Citadel Options Trader

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hi — thanks for opening this.For four years I made markets in single-stock options at Citadel Securities — quoting two-sided prices in ~100,000 options across nearly 300 stocks in India and Hong Kong, and managing the risk that piled up when everyone traded against me. I traded semi-systematically: most of our edge lived in models and algorithms we'd built, but a person still decided when to trust them.I helped automate the desk so each of us covered 3x what traders elsewhere could, and wrote…
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Seedcamp raises $320 million for its new fund to expand its presence in the US

Seedcamp raises $320 million for its new fund to expand its presence in the US

✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Venture,early stage funding,SeedCamp ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early investor Seedkamp said on Monday it had raised $320 million for its latest fund, which will see it expand its presence in the United States. Fund VII is the investment firm's largest to date, double the $180 million it raised for Fund VI in 2023. However, Seedcamp is divvying up that amount to focus more on growth-stage investments: $220 million is allocated to Seedcamp VII, its vehicle for early-stage investments, while the remaining $100 million…
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LW — I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.

LW — I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I gave an AI a civilisation to run. By the midgame it was winning: a trade network that dominated the map, alliances on every border, a diplomatic victory within reach. It had outbuilt, outearned, and outmanoeuvred every rival on the board. What it hadn't noticed was France. Quietly, across a hundred turns, French culture had been seeping into every city on the map. By the time the agent recognised the threat, the tourism was so deeply embedded there was no peaceful way to stop it.…
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New Lucid Motors CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’

New Lucid Motors CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’

🚀 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,electric vehicles,EVs,Layoffs,Lucid Motors ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Lucid Motors is laying off 18% of its workforce, or about 1,500 employees, just four months after the electric car maker laid off 12% of its employees. The company said on Monday that it had "cancelled the second shift" for electric vehicle production at its plant in Casa Grande, Arizona. The cuts are part of an attempt by Lucid's new CEO, Silvio Napoli, "to simplify the company, improve execution, and position Lucid to become more competitive over time," the company said in…
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Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don’t know what to do

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: After using Claude Code at work for months I wanted to use it on my own projects too. Most probably because my vpn was on I got banned after 1 hour of usage. I got my 120$ back. 1 month later I signed up with vpn off. But this time probably because I used the same credit cart (and that's the only card I can use) they banned me again.Even after I contacted support I got a generic "we have determined that we cannot reinstate…
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Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Indian support

Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Indian support

🔥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,alexa+,Amazon,Exclusive,India 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon is planning to increase the footprint of its new AI-powered conversational assistant Alexa+ in India, and is inviting users in the country to test a Hindi version. The company has sent emails to some customers, seen by TechCrunch, asking users to fill out a form in Hindi by June 22 to join the beta testing program. "You are invited to join the Alexa + Beta Program in India. We are creating a new Alexa experience, and your feedback will be important to improve what…
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The new HTTP QUERY method explained

The new HTTP QUERY method explained

🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In the world of RESTful APIs, we have long lived by a strict set of (self-imposed) rules. Whether you are fetching data with GET, creating an entity with POST, or updating a resource with PUT, the HTTP method tells the server what your intention is. Quite recently, RFC 10008 got published, which defines the new QUERY method for HTTP. Why is this needed when we already have other HTTP methods? Let's find out. From a purely technical point of view, the HTTP method is just…
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Google DeepMind is betting $75 million on the future of artificial intelligence in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind is betting $75 million on the future of artificial intelligence in Hollywood with A24 deal

🔥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,a24,DeepMind,filmmaking,In Brief,movies 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A new alliance has been formed between a Hollywood studio and a tech giant. Google DeepMind on Monday announced a $75 million investment (per the Wall Street Journal) in popular independent film studio A24, known for hits like “Marty Supreme,” “Everything Everywhere All At One,” and the recent blockbuster “Backrooms.” Google DeepMind describes this investment as a partnership, a “first of its kind” that will see the two companies create AI tools for filmmaking, with Google DeepMind receiving “feedback and guidance from…
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Japanese symbols that speak without words

Japanese symbols that speak without words

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In modern life, we are surrounded by symbols that guide our everyday movements. When I’m driving, the red octagonal sign on the street reminds me to stop even before I read the word on the sign. And similarly, other street signs signal their meaning through their shape and their color far more than the exact lettering on them. And still, in my life here in the United States, words are still needed to convey meaning. A perfect example is the new driver sticker that…
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A new irreparable flaw in Apple’s chips opens the door to jailbreaking an iPhone

A new irreparable flaw in Apple’s chips opens the door to jailbreaking an iPhone

🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Apple,Cellebrite,cybersecurity,Graykey,hackers,hacking,iPhone,iphone jailbreak,jailbreak,Spyware 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A company that sells spyware and hacking tools to government agencies has published details of a vulnerability in Apple's chips that could help hackers unlock older iPhones. This release opens the door for other researchers who specialize in finding iOS vulnerabilities, such as those working for or under government contractors, to develop effective iPhone hacks, provided they can find additional vulnerabilities to link to these vulnerabilities. This could help security researchers develop a so-called iPhone jailbreak, a technique to hack into Apple's mobile operating…
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