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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
76•ColinWright•1h ago•42 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
21•surprisetalk•1h ago•19 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
121•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
104•alephnerd•2h ago•56 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
58•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
824•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
54•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
105•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•122 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1058•xnx•1d ago•608 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
76•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
478•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
205•jesperordrup•11h ago•69 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
547•nar001•5h ago•253 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
216•alainrk•6h ago•335 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
35•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
28•marklit•5d ago•2 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
3•momciloo•1h ago•0 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
4•valyala•1h ago•1 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
113•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
4•valyala•1h ago•0 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
73•speckx•4d ago•74 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
68•mellosouls•4h ago•73 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
273•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
285•dmpetrov•22h ago•153 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
555•todsacerdoti•1d ago•268 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
43•matt_d•4d ago•18 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Sharpe Ratio Calculation Tool

https://www.fundratios.com/
23•navquant•7mo ago
I built a simple but effective Sharpe Ratio calculator that gives the full historical variation of it. Should I add other rations like Calmar and Sortino?

Comments

ProjectArcturis•7mo ago
Who is the intended user for this? Pretty much anyone can calculate a mean and standard deviation without a bespoke website.
motoxpro•7mo ago
Yeah, what is a "professional grade" sharpe ratio compared to a shape ratio
tripplyons•7mo ago
I think professional-grade is referring to their calculator not the statistic. I don't see what would make this site better than throwing your CSV into a spreadsheet or a simple script that would make it considered professional-grade.
navquant•7mo ago
One of the benefits is that the risk free rate is kept up to date on a daily basis. The calculation matches for each day the actual risk free rate, rather than just using the latest available value.
blitzar•7mo ago
> professional grade

vibe coded - I dont know where in the training set the Ai learnt to call everything "professional", maybe too much linkedin cringe in the dataset but it picked up the habbit and it stuck.

Just yesterday I told Claude “If you have to say it, it's probably not true” - it of course told me I am right.

k2enemy•7mo ago
I was wondering too. If someone is sophisticated enough to have their return data in a CSV, calculating a Sharpe ratio is trivial. The hard part is already done.
molsson•7mo ago
I guess this is the 1yr sharpe plotted over time, ie the sharpe at date X considers the stddev within the previous 365 days etc?

Many brokers only show 1yr sharpe or perhaps 3yr sharpe (for example swedish nordnet has 1/3/5 year sharpe: https://www.nordnet.se/fonder/lista/jupiter-gold-silver-usd-... )... but very often stocks/funds go steadily upwards for several years in "good times" and then we have major drawdowns during turmoil like 2008 or 2020 etc. In these cases, a 1yr or 3yr sharpe can be very misleading.

Have you considered also plotting 3yr sharpe and 5yr sharpe over time? Perhaps the length of the sharpe ratio would be configurable in the calculator?

navquant•7mo ago
Right now it uses the total stddev of the portfolio, over the full history provided. It can be changed fairly easily to compute it over a moving window of 1/3/5 years.
shabbychef•7mo ago
Probably better to give some interpretation of the achieved Sharpe, to help end users interpret the results, rather than curating a whole zoo of exotics that nobody understands.
navquant•7mo ago
Valid point. I could show a comparison to known funds or stocks to give an idea of the real performance
thomasfl•7mo ago
How about adding a demo? A demo may even be for a made up non existing fund, named Acme Fund.
navquant•7mo ago
Great idea, will add
k2enemy•7mo ago
> Our tool automatically uses the up to date Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR).

Are risk free rates matched to return dates? This makes it sound like the tool uses a single risk free rate for all excess return calculations.

navquant•7mo ago
It does not use a single risk free rate for all excess return calculations, but rather matches each return with the risk free rate of the day.
rongenre•7mo ago
Sharpe ratio is just the start: it gives you a metric on your portfolio. If it gave an interpretation of what that means, or give guidance on how certain actions would adjust the Sharpe, that might add a lot more value.
navquant•7mo ago
Good point, will add something to give a bit of guidance.