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Two Sigma is the company blog at twosigma.com, writing about ai, data and economics. Since 2012, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “A Machine Learning Approach to Regime Modeling”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
54mentions?
0recommend?
27HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Rarely recommended · 0 of 37 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Two Sigma in hiring threads and as an example of a quant fund with a tech focus. Its articles on GPU floating-point non-determinism and AI are cited as technical references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 37 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Two Sigma's scientists bring rigorous inquiry, data analysis, and invention to help solve the toughest challenges across financial services.
Most-linked posts?
- /careers.html6 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2012-05-01
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-23
- /articles/a-workaround-for-non-determinism-in-tensorflow/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-05
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-29
- A Machine Learning Approach to Regime Modeling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-07
What Hacker News says?
Two Sigma Open Source - http://BeakerNotebook.com , http://TwoSigma.com - NYC The Beaker team develops a web UI for statistical modeling, data analysis, and visualization. Beaker is open source, based on a modern Angular/Bootstrap architecture, and most of the work is done on Github on the platform of your choice making for a comfortable and high-velocity developer experience. We are looking for a front-end engineer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted A Guide to LLM Abstractions as a story · 33 points
HN discussionNit: in practice, even at temperature 0, production LLM implementations have some non-determinism. One reason is because many floating point computations are technically non-commutative even when the mathematical operation is, and the order can vary if they are carried out in parallel by the GPU. For example, see: https://www.twosigma.com/articles/a-workaround-for-non-deter...
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on “The Rise of Whatever”Submitted ADMIRE: A Product-Driven Approach to Automating Migrations as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTwo Sigma | NYC, New York We have a huge variety of positions open in modeling and engineering to help revolutionize investment management. http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html In particular, I'm helping several teams recruit front-end engineers to work on a variety of internal and public-facing applications including Beaker Notebook - http://beakernotebook.com/ Front-end engineers can reach me at ux@twosigma.com. F…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)”Submitted ICML 2017: A Review of Deep Learning Papers, Talks, and Tutorials as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTwo Sigma, http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html , NYC see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6367973 for discussion
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)”Submitted Why Human Intuition Is Essential in Machine Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTwo Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft? You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core,…
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)”Submitted TwoSigma Analyzes Time-Series of New York Hall of Science Usage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActually, there are also people [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] who are very successful betting small sums (relative to their total investable capital), very frequently, on securities they believe are slightly over or under valued. [0] - https://www.rentec.com/ [1] - https://www.twosigma.com/ [2] - https://www.citadel.com/ [3] - https://www.mlp.com/ [4] - https://www.deshaw.com/ [5] - https://www.worldquant.com/
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on “Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace”Submitted A Conversation on Data Science with Prof. David E. Culler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTwo Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing. We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)”Submitted Natural language processing of Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTwo Sigma / Beaker Notebook ( http://TwoSigma.com / http://BeakerNotebook.com ) Based in NYC. Seeking front-end and full stack engineers to work on Beaker, the open source data science tool. http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/935.html http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/936.html Two Sigma is hiring all types of scientists and engineers. http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)”Submitted A Machine Learning Approach to Regime Modeling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTwo Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing. We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)”Submitted A Machine Learning Approach to Regime Modeling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDid you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft? You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)”Two Sigma – New York City – Full time Two Sigma [1], an investment manager with the heart and soul of a tech company, has openings in many areas of technology. We have engineers working on everything from file systems to trading platforms to interactive visualizations. My team, Collaboration and Usability Engineering, is specifically looking for a frontend engineer with an eye for design [2], a full stack engineer f…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)”Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing. We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine…
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)”Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft? You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)”Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft? You might think I’m talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I’m talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core,…
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)”Twosigma has an office out of Houston (I recruited a bit for them (no placements) a few years ago). You sound like a good fit. http://www.twosigma.com/ Honestly more of a technologist HFT company vs financial (stuffy) firm (details in email I shot ya).
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on “Ask HN: Help a Hacker Out”Thanks. Beaker has autotranslation for communicating among languages, and you can have multiple languages in one notebook. Four months ago someone asked for compare and contrast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366245 Since then we have fixed a ton of bugs and fleshed out the concept. The reflection API and JS scriptability are about to be released, along with a bunch of UI polish, performance, and all kinds o…
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on “Practical Data Science in Python”Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft? You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core,…
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) ”Two Sigma - SoHo, NY http://twosigma.com We're building our next generation research environment, and we're looking for a functional programmer with a passion for distributed computing. We're scaling machine learning and operations research to tens of thousands of CPUs. Our team's language of choice is Clojure, but we operate in a polyglot environment. We love using things that the rest of the world has built, and w…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)”Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B Did you know there's a company based in New York City that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft? You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)”Two Sigma Investments – New York, NY (Full Time Positions) At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing. We are looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level developm…
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)”Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft? You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012) ”
