Altos Blog

Company blog · blog.altosresearch.com · on HN as mikesimonsen economics data

Altos Blog is the company blog at blog.altosresearch.com, writing about economics and data. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?

3HN people?

2010–2024first – last linked?

Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Altos Research for its analysis of Bay Area housing prices and whether they are sustainable. One comment cites it for the claim that prices may stay high even if demand falls.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

mikesimonsen · 18 karma · member since 2010

I'm the co-founder ceo of Altos Research. We do real estate data for people who care about such things. I blog on the housing market and our company at blog.altosresearch.com also twitter.com/mikesimonsen.

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What Hacker News says?

sseveran · 2016-03-08
Demand has greatly outstripped supply in the bay area. Even with a moderate reduction in demand prices may still rise. http://blog.altosresearch.com/how-sustainable-are-the-exorbi...
Comment linking /how-sustainable-are-the-exorbitant-bay-area-home-prices-and-rents/
on “In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Slowdown”
mooreds · 2024-07-16
Submitted What Happens to the Housing Market When Rates Drop? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
mikesimonsen · 2010-07-23
Submitted How we use an XML datasource for trend charts in Jasper Reports as a story · 1 points
HN discussion

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