Crazy long interview, but interesting, as DHH has some weight in software engineering.
OpenBB – an open-source, free alternative to a 25k+ p.a. Bloomberg Terminal?
“The first financial Platform that is free and fully open source. The OpenBB Platform offers access to equity, options, crypto, forex, macro economy, fixed income, and more while also offering a broad range of extensions to enhance the user experience according to their needs.”
https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
NVIDIA developer workshop: “s1: Simple test-time scaling” paper
At the NVIDIA developer workshop days I attended last week, the following paper was highly recommended:
“s1: Simple test-time scaling” by Niklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang, Weijia Shi, Xiang Lisa Li, Li Fei-Fei, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Percy Liang, Emmanuel Candès, Tatsunori Hashimoto
(PDF)
Github project: https://github.com/simplescaling/s1
Not directly related, but an interesting application of the NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator that was also presented: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/accelerating-fraud-detection-in-financial-services-with-rapids-accelerator-for-apache-spark-on-aws/
An open-source AI hedge fund team by @virattt
“The AI Hedge Fund is an educational model using AI agents to simulate trading decisions, emphasizing various investment strategies and analyses.”
Looks very interesting and inspiring, and @virattt seems to be a cool guy.
https://github.com/virattt/ai-hedge-fund/tree/main
Caveat/Disclaimer: “Can LLM-based Financial Investing Strategies Outperform the Market in Long Run?” by Weixian Waylon Li, Hyeonjun Kim, Mihai Cucuringu, Tiejun Ma – 11 May 2025 (PDF)
Objective-See: Free open-source macOS security tools
“We’re a non-profit foundation, creating free open-source macOS security tools, books, and the #OBTS conference.”
Techlore Recommendations: Privacy & Security Resources
Pretty good overview of better-than-average to top-notch software, in terms of security and privacy (note that there are also service providers and tools listed on this page that I would neither endorse nor recommend):