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whatever1today at 3:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

I like that Jane Street hires smart people and supports cool initiatives like ocaml.

But don’t fool yourself, they don’t make their money with intelligence.

They just do fees and insider trading.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/jane-stre...


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nova22033today at 3:48 PM

Company X sued by company Y shouldn't automatically translate to company X did a bad thing. Companies get sued all the time.

nvarsjtoday at 3:22 PM

Very wrong. Arbitrage is not “insider trading”.

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