The link doesn’t let me read the post without downloading the app?? I’m not 100%, but I bet that’s against HN rules, and at least against the spirit. I’m flagging it
Edit: I don’t want you to feel excessively bad, but you should feel bad for hijacking a user forum that _in good faith_ entertains new ideas like yours! This kind of behavior destroys the ecosystem you’re benefiting from.
Show HN is meant for people that build a thing. It's not meant for incremental features. However, I'd say this counts as a 'new thing', not an incremental feature, so I think it should be allowed. At any rate, I'm happy to see it, and I think it meets the bar as compared to most Show HN's I've seen in the past.
Welp, sorry it got taken down in the end. At any rate I feel it's significant enough effort to earn a space on HN one way or another -- maybe worth submitting through the 'main channel' if people really don't feel it belongs in Show HN.
Founder here: YC actually had an "AI hedge fund" idea in one of their recent "request for startups" post. We've been working on evaluating the capabilities of frontier models in investing money in the stock market. Results are encouraging and we're not doubling down on it.
> Results are encouraging and we're not doubling down on it.
Personally I believe LLM-assisted trading is destined to underperform passive indices, so I also would have moved on from this. But you say results were promising, so I'm interested to hear why you're not pursuing it further. Is it just that you have other things to focus on? Is there something else that's making you move on?
This is an experiment to see how well can LLMs invest in the market through a lot of research. We give them tool calls to access every financial dataset that exists online, and also some money to manage. And we then see how well they do.
Everything old is new again. These new AI “funds” remind me the applied research that was done in the 2000s with strategy search through genetic programming, startups like Logical Information Machines, even Peter Thiel had a macro hedge fund.
Are there multiple instances of each model running? Or at least more than 1? I'd be fascinated to see what multiple Claude instances would fare, would they all be up, or did this instance just get lucky?
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Edit: I don’t want you to feel excessively bad, but you should feel bad for hijacking a user forum that _in good faith_ entertains new ideas like yours! This kind of behavior destroys the ecosystem you’re benefiting from.
Edit2: It’s fixed! Thanks @rallies!
Edit (reply on your edit lol): you're right.
Second edit: fixed now. No more walls anywhere.
Happy to answer any questions.
> Results are encouraging and we're not doubling down on it.
Personally I believe LLM-assisted trading is destined to underperform passive indices, so I also would have moved on from this. But you say results were promising, so I'm interested to hear why you're not pursuing it further. Is it just that you have other things to focus on? Is there something else that's making you move on?
This is an experiment to see how well can LLMs invest in the market through a lot of research. We give them tool calls to access every financial dataset that exists online, and also some money to manage. And we then see how well they do.
The experiment started in November 2024.