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What Actually Happens at the End of 'Trading Places'? (2013)

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/19/201430727/what-actually-happens-at-the-end-of-trading-places

32•austinallegro•3h ago

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gibbitz•1h ago

https://youtu.be/9wSQ9Zk_9gQ?si=LIymSh4sGl2jehYo great video on orange juice concentrate futures

allenrb•1h ago

I’ve worked in trading for some time now (on the tech nerd side) and can still remember my jaw dropping when I learned that FCOJ is actually traded and wasn’t made up for the movie.

toomuchtodo•1h ago

My father was a trader on the floor of the CME in Chicago for a short bit (mid to late 90s), and Trading Places was provided as required reading before he taught me how to trade commodities. Great film. I have the VHS copy somewhere for sentimental reasons.

Why you can’t trade onions futures is also a fun read, for similar reasons (“The Great Onion Corner”).

https://www.npr.org/2015/10/22/450769853/the-great-onion-cor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Kosuga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

nicwolff•43m ago

That's funny, that in 2010 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission specifically banned the insider trade that bankrupted the Duke Brothers at the end of Trading Places!

Here's a direct link to the testimony mentioned in the Wall Street Journal:

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opagensler-...

Lip-Bu Tan: Our Path Forward

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1738/lip-bu-tan-our-path-forward

1•mepian•2m ago•0 comments

Loyalty and Layoffs (2013)

https://whydavewhy.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/

1•almog•3m ago•0 comments

Sleep-Time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-Time

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13171

1•anishathalye•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seachan – Censorship Resistant Decentralized Fileboards

https://seachan.org/

1•dappjaklabs•14m ago•0 comments

Improving Brain Models with ZAPBench

https://research.google/blog/improving-brain-models-with-zapbench/

1•lawrenceyan•24m ago•0 comments

Bluesky Is Down

https://status.bsky.app/history

7•dom96•25m ago•2 comments

You Read That Right: We're Introducing a New Way to Experience Subtitles

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/introducing-a-new-way-to-experience-subtitles

1•gnabgib•26m ago•0 comments

Waymo reports 250k paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/24/waymo-reports-250000-paid-robotaxi-rides-per-week-in-us.html

3•melling•26m ago•1 comments

Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/business/media/ziff-davis-openai-lawsuit.html

3•anonymousab•31m ago•0 comments

Statement from Matt Hartman on the CVE Program

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/statement-matt-hartman-cve-program

1•gpi•33m ago•0 comments

Flappy Bird is now Flappy Trump

https://flappytrump.net/

2•nikolas1814•34m ago•0 comments

Gate VR – Building a Non-Invasive Neural Interface for Full-Body VR

1•GateVR•35m ago•3 comments

The State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2025/the-state-of-reinforcement-learning-for-llm-reasoning.html

1•yaiml•35m ago•0 comments

on Coders Willing to Code

https://yeikoff.xyz/blog/24-04-2025-coders-willing-to-code/

1•iglesiastj•37m ago•0 comments

The Helicopters Came Anyway

https://domofutu.substack.com/p/the-helicopters-came-anyway

3•domofutu•42m ago•1 comments

War on JITs: Software-Based Attacks and Hybrid Defenses for JIT Compilers

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3731598

1•matt_d•45m ago•0 comments

Why Can't ChatGPT Draw a Full Glass of Wine? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160F8F8mXlo

1•duck•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Salespilot – Close faster with personalized follow-ups

https://www.usesalespilot.com/

1•fearlessboi•46m ago•0 comments

Cross-Device Flows: Security Best Current Practice

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-cross-device-security-09.html

1•mooreds•49m ago•0 comments

Kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'

https://gothamist.com/news/4-year-old-migrant-girl-other-kids-go-to-court-in-nyc-with-no-lawyer-the-cruelty-is-apparent

8•detaro•51m ago•1 comments

Looking for feedback on my web page

http://danieldeboulay.com

1•KaisoEnt•52m ago•0 comments

Building Auras, Breeding Cults

https://lanpartycuratorial.substack.com/p/building-auras-breeding-cults

1•exolymph•52m ago•0 comments

mruby 3.4.0

https://mruby.org/releases/2025/04/20/mruby-3.4.0-released.html

2•shaicoleman•52m ago•0 comments

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2025/04/a-love-letter-to-people-who-believe-in-people.html

1•NaOH•53m ago•0 comments

Badgen – A Badge Generating Service

https://github.com/badgen/badgen.net

1•philocalyst•53m ago•1 comments

Simulating protein structures involved in memory formation

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-simulating-protein-involved-memory-formation.html

3•PaulHoule•55m ago•0 comments

AI's Rapid Rise: Understanding LLM Vulnerabilities (2024)

https://creaplus.com/en/resources/blog/ais-rapid-rise-understanding-llm-vulnerabilities

2•selfhoster•55m ago•0 comments

How should Stripe deprecate APIs?

https://lethain.com/api-deprecation-strategy/

2•sedboyz•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A new way to verify remote AI model execution (no TEEs, no ZK)

1•lospoy•57m ago•0 comments

CISA Rebuffs Funding Concerns as CVE Foundation Draws Criticism

https://socket.dev/blog/cisa-rebuffs-funding-concerns

1•feross•57m ago•0 comments