Hacker News with Generative AI: Finance

Feel the Billionaire Lifestyle: Adjusted Price Simulator Based on Your Net Worth (vercel.app)
This simulator helps you grasp just how insanely rich billionaires are by comparing their net worth to your own.

Wealth, Finance, Technology, Lifestyle

4 points by gilfoyle_7 30 days ago | 0 comments

Google to pay $1.38B over privacy violations (malwarebytes.com)
The state of Texas reached a mammoth financial agreement with Google last week, securing $1.375 billion in payments to settle two three year-old lawsuits.

Google, Privacy, Lawsuits, Finance

5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 31 days ago | 2 comments

Stablecoins Are Bank Deposits (ft.com)
Stablecoins are bank deposits

Stablecoins, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Regulation

6 points by walterbell 31 days ago | 1 comments

China Offers to Fund Colombia Projects If the US Blocks Loans (bloomberg.com)
China could step in to finance infrastructure in Colombia and across Latin America if the US fulfills its threat to block funding, according to Beijing’s ambassador to Bogota.

China, Colombia, International Relations, Finance, Infrastructure

8 points by JumpCrisscross 31 days ago | 2 comments

Bank transactions cleared by FTP-ing files (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Finance, Security, Technology

30 points by jv22222 32 days ago | 12 comments

Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric (gwintrob.com)
Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

Business, Finance, History, Corporate Collapse, General Electric

238 points by gwintrob 32 days ago | 163 comments

Trump media group plans to raise $3B to spend on cryptocurrencies (ft.com)
Trump media group plans to raise $3bn to spend on cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency, Finance, Politics, Trump

5 points by alephnerd 32 days ago | 1 comments

TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds (micahflee.com)
I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an upcoming open source research tool I'm going to release, and a huge list of potential TeleMessage customers.

Data Breaches, Privacy, Law Enforcement, Finance, Technology

176 points by Bluestein 32 days ago | 1 comments

U.S. Coin Circulation: The Path Forward (2022) [pdf] (frbservices.org)

Currency, Economics, Finance, United States

5 points by toomuchtodo 34 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: GenAI-powered OCR API for PDF receipts/invoices with smart extraction (visionparser.com)
Welcome to the next level of document automation! Our innovative Receipt and Invoice Parsing API, powered by state-of-the-art Generative AI, gives you a flexible solution that extracts structured data from any receipt format. Experience exceptional accuracy, speed, affordability and customisation for receipt parsing.

Generative AI, OCR, API, Document Automation, Finance

10 points by daleef_rahman 35 days ago | 5 comments

Arrests "imminent" in eXch money laundering case after crypto seizure (monero.forex)
eXch, an instant crypto exchange long preferred by users desiring privacy, has abruptly and unexpectedly announced that they are shutting down their service.

Cryptocurrency, Finance, Law Enforcement, Privacy

11 points by lennychanuk 36 days ago | 0 comments

US Treasury to stop producing pennies next year (bbc.com)
One cent coins will stop being produced in the US next year, the Treasury Department has confirmed.

Finance, US Economy, Coins, Currency

36 points by DarkContinent 36 days ago | 25 comments

Klarna's losses widen after more consumers fail to repay loans (ft.com)
Klarna’s losses widen after more consumers fail to repay loans

Finance, Fintech, Consumer Debt, Business

11 points by petethomas 36 days ago | 6 comments

What happens if investors lose faith in America? (paulkrugman.substack.com)
I used to be an economics ambulance-chaser — someone who raced around the world to wherever there was an interesting economic calamity. And this international experience probably made me more sensitive than most economists to the way economies that seem to be doing OK can suddenly fall off a cliff into economic crisis.

Economics, United States, Finance, Global Economy

11 points by dxs 36 days ago | 1 comments

US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny (apnews.com)

Finance, Currency, US Politics

7 points by Ozarkian 36 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales (ft.com)
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales

Microsoft, Startups, Business, Artificial Intelligence, Finance

31 points by frereubu 36 days ago | 9 comments

The Treasury unveils its plan to kill the penny (cnn.com)

Finance, Economics, US Politics

12 points by haunter 36 days ago | 19 comments

Trump Crypto Partner Is KuCoin – Which Is Banned in U.S. for Money Laundering (forbes.com)
Donald Trump’s crypto venture launched its stablecoin Wednesday on an exchange recently banned from the United States after admitting to violating anti-money laundering laws and agreeing to pay a $300 million fine.

Cryptocurrency, Politics, Finance, Regulation

17 points by morisy 36 days ago | 3 comments

Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server (dangelov.com)
Ever wanted to check on your portfolio and trade some stocks directly with Claude? Well you’re in luck.

AI, Finance, Programming, Claude

180 points by dangelov 36 days ago | 82 comments

Treasury Yields Soar as Ballooning U.S. Deficit Worries Wall Street (investopedia.com)
Treasury debt continued its wild ride on Wednesday, with yields soaring amid concerns about the U.S. government’s unsustainable deficit spending.

Finance, Economics, Debt, United States

62 points by inverted_flag 37 days ago | 48 comments

Show HN: I vibe coded a complex trading app (apple.com)
Tradofire – Swipe, Trade, Win.

Trading, Finance, Mobile Apps, User Interface

9 points by sumeruchat 37 days ago | 8 comments

The US Treasury just shocked Americans with a $258B surplus (yahoo.com)
Budget deficits are something we’ve come to expect from Uncle Sam. After all, without years of overspending, the federal government wouldn’t be sitting on trillions of dollars in debt. But, the latest monthly Treasury statement delivered a rare — and welcome — surprise.

US Economy, Finance, Government Spending, Budget

7 points by harambae 37 days ago | 2 comments

Elon Musk materially lied to Tesla (TSLA) shareholders – transcript and proof (electrek.co)
Elon Musk just made public and material lies aimed at Tesla shareholders. Here’s the proof with the relevant transcript.

Elon Musk, Tesla, Lawsuits, Business, Finance

24 points by mikestew 38 days ago | 3 comments

Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai to Enter Insolvency Proceedings (bloomberg.com)
Builder.ai, the British artificial intelligence startup backed by Microsoft Corp. and the Qatar Investment Authority, will file an insolvency case after overstating sales figures it provided investors.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Startups, Finance, Insolvency

14 points by helsinkiandrew 38 days ago | 2 comments

U.S. banks are sitting on $500B worth of unrealized losses (investorsobserver.com)

Banking, Finance, Economy, Investment

15 points by greesil 39 days ago | 3 comments

Coinbase becomes first crypto exchange to join the S&P 500 (latimes.com)
Coinbase on Monday became the first cryptocurrency exchange to join the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, marking a pivotal moment for the digital assets industry.

Cryptocurrency, Finance, S&P 500, Stock Market

16 points by andsoitis 39 days ago | 3 comments

European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech (ioplus.nl)
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will invest €70 billion into Europe's technology sector by 2027, aiming to close the innovation gap with the United States.

Europe, Investment, Technology, Finance

307 points by saubeidl 39 days ago | 355 comments

Discover is now part of Capital One (discover.com)
We’re pleased to announce that on May 18, 2025, Discover Bank merged into Capital One, N.A. (“Capital One”).

Finance, Banking

107 points by LopRabbit 39 days ago | 86 comments

U.S. Downgraded by Moody's as Trump Pushes Costly Tax Cuts (nytimes.com)
The credit rating of the United States received a potentially costly downgrade on Friday, as the ratings firm Moody’s determined that the government’s rising debt levels stood to grow further if Republicans enact a package of new tax cuts.