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Jayanth R. Varma
Personal blog · jrvarma.wordpress.comeconomicsbusiness
Jayanth R. Varma's personal blog at jrvarma.wordpress.com covers economics and business. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “SEC wants python code for simulations of financial instruments. See; Accelerando”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2010 post on the SEC's proposal to require executable (Python) documentation in securities filings. The comments cite it only as related background, not as a judgement of its quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog on financial markets and their regulation
Most-linked posts?
- SEC wants python code for simulations of financial instruments. See; Accelerando2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-17
What Hacker News says?
I could have sworn it rather mentioned Lisp. Maybe I'm imagining it though. On a pro-python note, I'm also reminded of the not-that-long-ago idea by the SEC to require certain securities to include executable documentation: https://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-pyt... and http://www.itworld.com/government/105031/will-wall-street-re... for example.
Comment linking /2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-python/
on “Ever wanted to programmatically file a lawsuit? In Poland, you can.”Submitted SEC wants python code for simulations of financial instruments. See; Accelerando as a story · 52 points
HN discussionMailing list thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-April/1241... Blog post about it: http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-pyth... Proposal (pdf): http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2010/33-9117.pdf
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