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Winton is the company blog at winton.com, writing about economics and business. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A short history of market cap milestones”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2018–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Winton is a quant investment firm whose Longer View essays are linked, such as one on the first billion-dollar company. Comments also include a 2019 hiring post. No comment judges the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Winton is a quantitative investment management firm. Our goal is to generate returns for our clients across a range of market environments.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A short history of market cap milestones
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. > But conversely, we don’t know how much worse things might be if there were no laws to keep “bigness” in check. We know it from history for sure, that "bigness" of an economic player is not a problem. There was no anti-trust legislation prior 1913, and Standard Oil was lowering prices for their oil and kerosine every year in order to compete with emerging oil wells developers, which kept popping up dispite Standard…

    Comment linking /longer-view/price-history-oil

    on “Apple, Epic, and the App Store”
  2. Submitted Shining a Light on Currency Black Markets as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Winton | Quant fund hiring Data Scientists, UX Developers and Software Developers | London, UK | Fulltime | ONSITE | https://www.winton.com/ Founded more than 20 years ago, Winton is a systematic investment manager that builds automated systems for financial market investment. We seek out hard-to-detect patterns in markets by utilising large amounts of data, and our expertise in computational, mathematical and stati…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”
  4. Submitted Down on the Farm: Agriculture/Financial Bubbles as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. found something relevant: https://www.winton.com/longer-view/what-was-the-first-billio...

    Comment linking /longer-view/what-was-the-first-billion-dollar-company-a-short-history-of-market-cap-milestones

    on “The Race to a Trillion”
  6. Submitted A short history of market cap milestones as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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