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Vortexa
Company blog · vortexa.com/insightsdataeconomicsprogramming
Vortexa is the company blog at vortexa.com, writing about data, economics and programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Vortexa builds energy market data bottom-up — cargo by cargo, vessel by vessel — so every number traces back to source. See what others miss.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-31
What Hacker News says?
Niche, but very important to participants in the market. There is a growing industry of cargo and vessel tracking SaaS solutions (including https://Vortexa.com )
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on “Suez canal blocked by a massive ship”Submitted Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times (2021) as a story · 50 points
HN discussionhttps://www.vortexa.com/insights/products/indias-diesel-expo...
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on “Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?”Submitted Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis article from Jan 2022 seems quite prescient: https://www.vortexa.com/insights/products/reality-check-on-r... "Geopolitical tensions around the Ukraine conflict between Russia and a not truly consistent US/European conglomerate are straining and the word “sanctions” is being touted with rising frequency. But by analysing flows it’s clear that any material sanctions on Russian oil and gas exports are unlikely to…
Comment linking /insights/products/reality-check-on-russian-oil-and-gas-sanctions/
on “How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is”Submitted Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVortexa [1] uses such data for analytics on energy markets. [1]: https://www.vortexa.com/
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on “Vessel Finder”Submitted Integrating Rust into Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe most obvious solution to high power prices is a negotiated settlement in Ukraine and a lifting of sanctions on Russia - regardless of whether you like that or not for geopolitical or ideological reasons, that would bring power prices crashing down overnight. The next in line would be central banks and government bonds doing the quantitative easing, aka printing money, and delivering that money not to the private…
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on “A solution to current high power prices”Submitted Maximum-likelihood classification with a constraint on the class distribution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhich part? That GCC countries export refined Jet-A? Kuwait was responsible for 15% of seaborne jet fuel exports in 2025 (1), something like 10% of the world's total exports. In 2024, Bahrain exported 20 million barrels of jet-a (2). South Korea, #1 in the world, exported 90 million barrels in 2025 (3), so Bahrain isn't a dominant player, but it's still an important amount. Obviously most of ROK's oil was crude impo…
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on “Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"”