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The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market

https://www.wsj.com/finance/the-buy-borrow-and-die-wealth-strategy-has-become-a-5-trillion-market-d9149a9d
11•tysone•1h ago

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silverFork•19m ago
That is result of some really insane laws that has been written about a million times. They have known that zillionaires are using it to avoid paying taxes altogether, even after death.
yieldcrv•13m ago
the financial sector is an ongoing construction project, going the direction of all items having an easy way to be valued to the minute, with the merchant and reseller having the same price instead of a wildly different one, all items then being able to be used as collateral instantly, fractionally sold as shares, and with a derivatives market on top

this project is not done, it’s not close to done, but improvements in this space have led to more people being able to access this lending market

I see that improving beyond publicly traded equity and real estate

Play your Steam library's Windows games on a jailbroken PS5

https://github.com/leolobato/playden-ps5/tree/main
1•croes•4m ago•0 comments

Pushing Bluetooth Out to 12 Kilometers

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/pushing-bluetooth-out-to-12-kilometers/
1•lxm•11m ago•0 comments

The open records stonewalling is working

https://collegejournalism.org/2026/10/18/the-open-records-stonewalling-is-working/
1•rdmuser•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent outputs slop texts, so I make a superfast HTML skill visualize it

https://github.com/QingYunA/answer-me-with-html
1•sorlia7z•14m ago•1 comments

End effector action policy outputs to robot actuation

https://lagrangianblog.substack.com/p/end-effector-action-policy-outputs
1•rutherblood•15m ago•0 comments

How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-voting-is-like-a-klein-bottle-20261026/
1•pseudolus•16m ago•0 comments

Our Response to the eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident

https://go.dev/blog/emudhra-incident
2•majorchord•16m ago•0 comments

Walter Koenig, the Russian Crewman Chekov on 'Star Trek,' Dies at 90

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/walter-koenig-dead-chekov-star-trek-russian-1236740088/
2•pseudolus•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ESP-Watchtower – $3 ESP8266 Home Network Sentinel and Canary Honeypot

https://github.com/prasadabhishek/esp-watchtower
1•prasadaabhishek•17m ago•0 comments

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

https://eliasfarhan.ch/graphics/cpp/2026/01/27/why-i-teach-opengles.html
1•majorchord•18m ago•0 comments

Sexc.dev – Package Manager for C

https://sexc.dev/
1•thomasfromcdnjs•18m ago•0 comments

Invite to build your business on KeilHQ

1•jenasatyajitsj•18m ago•1 comments

FTC demands Anthropic leaders testify in consumer harm investigation

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6173134-ftc-demands-anthropic-ai-testimony/
3•firesteelrain•20m ago•0 comments

Ten weeks after Groq shut down its models, GitHub still finds them in 314k files

https://tiltmeter.dev/
1•torrresagus•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you handle time-series metrics at scale without a large bill?

1•xpbl•24m ago•0 comments

Avoiding Dirty Reads: Umem-Cache Achieves Strong Consistency

https://github.com/imchuncai/umem-cache/blob/master/Documentation/consistency.rst
1•imchuncai•25m ago•0 comments

MEU – A M3U File Editor

https://github.com/teknoraver/meu
1•teknoraver•33m ago•1 comments

NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings solves long-festering Orion issue

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/nasa-updates-lander-plans-for-moon-landings-finally-solves-...
1•gmays•34m ago•0 comments

Five Results on Open Quantum Problems

https://psi.inc/research/oqp-batch-2026/
1•guybedo•36m ago•0 comments

Translating the Translator with the Translated Translator

https://nomlang.org/post/post.7.feb.2025.html
1•mjbq•38m ago•2 comments

AI and the Rise of Cognitive Overload

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mindful-epidemiologist/202603/ai-and-the-rise-of-cogn...
1•abixb•39m ago•0 comments

AI Science vs. Human Science

https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/paper/ai-science-vs-human-science/art_3901430d6c0e4bddb28436210...
2•martincsweiss•42m ago•1 comments

Knowledge graphs could help orgs respond to new laws

https://lexifina.com/blog/knowledge-graphs-update-firms-for-new-laws
2•alansaber•42m ago•0 comments

ICE wants robot dogs. Boston Dynamics' workers urge company to 'cancel the sale'

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/10/23/boston-dynamics-employees-petition-dhs
13•greyface-•43m ago•0 comments

Gamerscore

https://systemdrift.neocities.org/blog/on-gamerscore
1•myrrhman•45m ago•0 comments

How the 'math wars' in Palo Alto reflect a raging nationwide debate

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/math-class-palo-alto-school-district-22478798.php
2•randycupertino•53m ago•1 comments

LiDAR Lens: web viewer for 1M Lidar terrain across England and Wales

https://lidarlens.sarsen.org
1•winterswift•55m ago•0 comments

Chinese research vessels loiter near undersea cables more than any other nation

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-research-vessels-loiter-near-pacific-undersea-...
4•beansovertoast•58m ago•0 comments

The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market

https://www.wsj.com/finance/the-buy-borrow-and-die-wealth-strategy-has-become-a-5-trillion-market...
11•tysone•1h ago•2 comments

Accessory dwelling unit ruling could be a boon to California builders

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/adu-ruling-boon-california-builders-22495410.php
3•littlexsparkee•1h ago•2 comments