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Wealthfront
Company blog · eng.wealthfront.comprogrammingstartups
Wealthfront is the company blog at eng.wealthfront.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2010, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “The Case for Object-Oriented JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Wealthfront engineering blog for posts on deployment infrastructure, jQuery use and hiring. Many links come from job ads that point readers to it, and commenters cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Case for Object-Oriented JavaScript3 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-12-01
- JQuery the Right Way2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-21
- CSS-driven scrolling for a better marquee2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-05
- Wealthfront Engineering - Hire the Best, Forget the Rest2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-09
What Hacker News says?
Wealthfront | Redwood City, CA | Onsite | Visa Wealthfront takes the guesswork out of sound, long-term investing through effortless automation. We efficiently build and deliver products which pave the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. With their trust, we believe we can and will change this industry. Find out how our engineering team contributes to our mission at http://eng.weal…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted When Canvas doesn't cut it: Raphael.js as a story · 49 points
HN discussionWealthfront | Redwood City, CA | Onsite | Visa Wealthfront takes the guesswork out of sound, long-term investing through effortless automation. We efficiently build and deliver products which pave the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. With their trust, we believe we can and will change this industry. Find out how our engineering team contributes to our mission at http://eng.weal…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Bulletproof Rails Asset Caching as a story · 35 points
HN discussionWealthfront | Redwood City, CA | Onsite | Visa Wealthfront takes the guesswork out of sound, long-term investing through effortless automation. We efficiently build and deliver products which pave the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. With their trust, we believe we can and will change this industry. Find out how our engineering team contributes to our mission at http://eng.weal…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Why Culture is Key as a story · 34 points
HN discussionWealthfront | Redwood City, CA | Onsite | Visa Wealthfront takes the guesswork out of sound, long-term investing through effortless automation. We efficiently build and deliver products which pave the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. With their trust, we believe we can and will change this industry. Find out how our engineering team contributes to our mission at http://eng.weal…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Less IO for your Java Unit Tests as a story · 32 points
HN discussionWealthfront | Redwood City, CA | Onsite | Visa Wealthfront takes the guesswork out of sound, long-term investing through effortless automation. We efficiently build and deliver products which pave the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. With their trust, we believe we can and will change this industry. Find out how our engineering team contributes to our mission at http://eng.weal…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted IRC bots for Laziness, Impatience, and Continuous Deployment as a story · 29 points
HN discussionWealthfront | Redwood City, CA | Onsite | Visa Wealthfront takes the guesswork out of sound, long-term investing through effortless automation. We efficiently build and deliver products which pave the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. With their trust, we believe we can and will change this industry. Find out how our engineering team contributes to our mission at http://eng.weal…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Evolve or die: Start-ups and "Dealing with Darwin" as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAlso former HFT / market maker here (UBS, GETCO), and also the developer who wrote Wealthfront's direct indexing with tax loss harvesting 10 years ago. I had that same skepticism before I built it. Using a Bloomberg terminal back then, my conclusion was that the weighted spread for the S&P 500 was 3.2 bps, vs. 0.6 bps for SPY.And this was > 10 years ago, so I'd think by now it would be even tigher. The ratio may hav…
Comment linking /2014/03/04/marketside-chats-4-costs-of-replicating-an-sp-500-portfolio/
on “Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios”Submitted Introducing Our New Operating System as a story · 18 points
HN discussionWealthfront | Palo Alto, CA | Onsite | Visa | Full-time and Interns | http://wealthfront.com We invest your money using software. We are a technology company, not a finance company. Read more about our engineering culture here: http://eng.wealthfront.com/ We are hiring for all sorts of positions (backend, iOs, and Android engineers to name a few) see them all here: https://www.wealthfront.com/careers Email me direct…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)”Submitted Lean Startup for Geeks at Wealthfront: Miško Hevery on the Psychology of Testing as a story · 18 points
HN discussionWealthfront | Redwood City, CA | Onsite | Visa Wealthfront takes the guesswork out of sound, long-term investing through effortless automation. We efficiently build and deliver products which pave the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. With their trust, we believe we can and will change this industry. Find out how our engineering team contributes to our mission at http://eng.weal…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)”Submitted Taking corrective action with git pre-commit as a story · 17 points
HN discussionYes, these days it's really difficult to credibly market yourself as an innovative company without a pair of 20-something lumbersexual founders who haxored their way into an exposed-brick office in SoMa. If Wealthfront really wants to prove that it's tech-driven, it should stop sharing technical knowledge[1] and organize more hackathons. Preferably hackathons in which the beer and laptop stickers flow freely. [1] ht…
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on “Wealthfront: Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices”Submitted Test-driving your Javascript for fun and profit as a story · 15 points
HN discussionKeep in mind that Frequent A/B tests burn statistical “credit.” Any time you ship a winner at p = 0.05 you’ve spent 5 % of your false-positive budget. Do that five times in a quarter and the chance at least one is noise is 1 – 0.95⁵ ≈ 23 %. There are several approaches you can take to reduce that source of error: Quarterly alpha ledger Decide how much total risk you want this quarter (say 10 %). Divide the remaining…
Comment linking /2015/10/29/how-we-avoid-ab-testing-errors-with-shrinkage/
on “P-Hacking in Startups”Submitted Expressive Java & Fluent Interfaces as a story · 12 points
HN discussionExcept that, most 3rd-party recruiters being clueless, you still have to do all the work. The only sensible way I've seen to use them is as a pure resume source. The folks at Wealthfront explain how: http://eng.wealthfront.com/2011/07/hire-best-forget-rest.htm...
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on “Recruiters are, by and large, a waste of your time”Submitted Arrhythmia.js, a new take on rhythm validation as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWealthfront (formerly kaChing), Palo Alto CA (no remotes) Wealthfront is intent on disrupting the $10-TRILLION mutual fund industry, an industry that's seen little innovation in the past 25 years. To reach this goal, we put our customers and our technology at the heart of everything we do. Java, Scala, JRuby on Rails. We have a 5-minute commit-to-production continuous deployment system. Read our eng blog at http://e…
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on “Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)”Submitted Siri for Continuous Deployment as a story · 11 points
HN discussionInteresting. Not sure how it compares to Wealthfront's continuous deployment[1] one though (which also includes automated rollback based on business metrics). [1] http://eng.wealthfront.com/2010/05/deployment-infrastructure...
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on “Asgard: Web-based Cloud Management and Deployment from Netflix”Submitted Tools for Debugging Distributed Systems as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWe're flattered, Addy. http://eng.wealthfront.com/2010/10/jquery-right-way.html
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on “JQuery Performance Tips And Tricks ”Submitted Ode to Textual Identifiers as a story · 10 points
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