The Fall of Stack Overflow(observablehq.com)

620 points by ayhanfuat 3 years ago | 703 comments

An Observable notebook charting Stack Overflow's roughly 50% decline in traffic, questions, answers, and votes over the past year and a half.

Polya Urn Simulation(observablehq.com)

41 points by cmoog 3 years ago | 14 comments

Tissot's Indicatrix(observablehq.com)

58 points by unobatbayar 2 years ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Roboco-op, a computational blackboard for efficient human/AI collab(observablehq.com)

72 points by tlarkworthy 3 years ago | 20 comments

How many jacaranda trees are there in Sydney?(observablehq.com)

50 points by ldgrp 2 years ago | 38 comments

Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?(denyslinkov.medium.com)

106 points by rayshan 3 years ago | 101 comments

Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts(nytimes.com)

455 points by ljosa 3 years ago | 653 comments

New York Times article explaining why banks are abruptly closing individual and small-business customer accounts, leaving people unable to pay rent and bills.

CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks(forbes.com)

22 points by iamnothere 8 days ago | 8 comments

Forbes article reporting that the CFPB has opened a debanking investigation into nine large national banks; the page showed an access-restricted error.

Seeing like a bank(bitsaboutmoney.com)

517 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 370 comments

Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie, published November 2023, on how banks perceive and process the world and their customers.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.

Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models(papers.ssrn.com)

521 points by mellosouls 2 years ago | 199 comments

SSRN page for a Chicago Booth working paper examining whether large language models can perform financial statement analysis like professional analysts.