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citadelsecurities.com is the company blog at citadelsecurities.com, writing about economics and business. Since 2018, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Global Intelligence Crisis”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Citadel Securities' news-and-insights pages and website, mostly 2026 job-market data reports and its description of market-making, in threads on tech layoffs and payment for order flow.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Global Intelligence Crisis15 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2026-02-25
What Hacker News says?
You are hitting my limits but I'll try. Payment for order flow means that whoever is getting your orders (schwab/robinhood) is getting paid to send them to a specific market maker: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/ The Market maker is holding lots of securities that they want to sell. They also buy securities (to then sell.) They are trying to make money on the spread, meaning "buy low sell high". Market makers pro…
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on “Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions”Submitted Sea Change in C++: Why Opportunities Abound as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe exchange is where the orders are executed, but the exchange doesn't execute the orders. The market makers do that job. Look at the companies listed in the disclosures. Citadel appears to have the largest share in all of the examples listed. Their website [1] claims that: > We act as a specialist or market maker in more than 3,000 U.S. listed-options names, representing 99% of traded volume, and rank as a top liq…
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on “Robinhood Making Millions Selling Out Their Millennial Customers to HFTs”Submitted Tell HN: C++ Still Does the Job as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou'd think "past year" would include a full 12 months. This person has chosen a ~10 month period to hide the large drop off in early 2025 as you can see here: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...
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on “Layoffs at Block”Submitted Global Intelligence Crisis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionis there any data about the overall job market on whether it's been good or bad? genuinely curious the most recent data point shows a rebound https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo... and fwiw i dont know any swes struggling to find work personally swe is so broad and in bubbles its hard to get an objective analysis
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on “Layoffs at Block”Submitted Citadel Securities Announces $1.15B Investment from Sequoia and Paradigm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo, that's just the reality of the market right now. Software engineers are an extremely hot field, likely because everybody is trying to add AI to their products. https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...
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on “Layoffs at Block”Submitted Tokenomics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...
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on “Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat”Submitted Global Intelligence Crisis – Citadel Securities' Response as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSomething else is afoot in the markets, I wouldn’t take rando tweets at face value, especially if they’re confirming a narrative you’re biased to accept. https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...
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on “Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions”Submitted Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHm what about the Citadel rebuttal that showed growth? https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...
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on “Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions”Submitted The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis doesn't break it down by experience, and I can't find specific data on that, but the recent spike in demand for engineers + subsequent drop in unemployment this year is well documented [1]. The demand for senior+ engineers has remained steadier through this downturn from my anecdotal observations, with new grads being by far the most negatively affected, but even that seems to both be shifting from talking to p…
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on “I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit”Submitted The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis - postings for devs are rising, up 11% YoY as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere[0] is the chart they made from scraping Indeed. [0]: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2...
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on “The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis - postings for devs are rising, up 11% YoY”Submitted Global Intelligence Crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Global Intelligence Crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis as a story · 1 points
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