alt Hacker NewsThis is the third Jane Street-related thing I've seen on here this week after not seeing much about them that I can remember any time recently beforehand I'm aware of their use of OCaml and probably do other things that might be of interest to the HN community, but it seems like a lot in a very short time out of nowhere. Is there some sort of marketing push or something going on?
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Probably a self fulfilling prophecy.
Jane street news made it to the front page a couple times and got a lot of attention.
Now more people are recognizing the name and upvoting other Jane Street posts.
They’re pretty techy, idk why they’re showing up recently though.
Also one of my absolute favorite programming talks ever was hosted by Jane street:
https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/algorithm-for-precisio...
It’s like half talk, half story. Got me super interested in logic programming, and minikanren in particular.
People like to talk about Jane Street because it is this Very High IQ™ company that pays people astronomical salaries and is extremely hard to get into.
They don't have to do marketing, though. It's not like they sell anything to Hacker News readers, they make their money trading finantial assets
> We know this sounds vague,
ok thanks for this slop then. Dont see why this stupid article is on frontpage.
They seem to belive in 'organic' marketing like doing a fake podcasts on dwarkesh. So maybe they have some bots upvoting their name.
I'd lean towards no on that. Might be a bit of a Baader-Meinhof thing. They've been mentioned/discussed on HN pretty regularly for years:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=jane+street