
Chris Buonocore
509 posts

Chris Buonocore
@chrisbcore
Engineering lead with expertise in B2B, martech, and fintech. Long time hackathoner. Find my projects: https://t.co/KPDLZmad11, https://t.co/65LOIXFmvY.


Brian Armstrong explains how he built Coinbase on nights and weekends while working at Airbnb Brian first advises those who are currently employed to not build your project on company hours or on your company laptop: “If you build it on company time or on the company hardware, the company probably owns the IP.” Then he describes his schedule for working on Coinbase while still working full-time at Airbnb. “I would often work [at Airbnb] until 7pm. I’d come home, eat dinner, and then I would work from 8pm to midnight. I would do that maybe 3-4 days a week on weekdays. And then on the weekend I’d work Sunday afternoon for 7-8 hours.” Brian did this consistently for about a year and a half until Coinbase was far enough along for him to get seed funding from Y Combinator. “It sucked. I mean I was tired after the full day of work [at Airbnb]. But this is where determination comes in… At that moment in time, I was in my late 20s, and I was like, ‘I really want to try to build something important in the world.’” When asked how he maintained friendships during this time, Brian replies: “I was pretty intense about it. I would say I sacrificed friendships for it. It’s not like I was just never responding to people, but I’ve seen this happen to various people. They get to a certain point in their life. Sometimes they turn a certain age where they thought they would have more done by then or maybe someone in their family passes away and they’re like, Oh my god, time is finite. It’s precious. And something happens where they’re like, ‘I’m going to get this done, no matter the cost.’” Brian tells those out there who might be in a similar situation: “Go hard at it. Finish your book. Launch your thing. Just start doing stuff - and even if you don’t know what to do, just do anything, because action will produce information and it’ll help you get to the right thing.” Video source: @StevenBartlett (2022)

If ElasticSearch is so fast, scalable, and great at search… Why don’t we just use it as our primary database? What are we missing here?



“OpenClaw is the iPhone of tokens” — Nvidia CEO on Lex Podcast





Just reviewed some $RDDT Q1 alt data and it looks strong... suggests that $RDDT Q1 revs could be above +62% YoY vs +54.7% estimates fwiw, if $RDDT did report +62% Q1 revenue growth or better it would be an acceleration from 2025 Q1 when they reported +61.5% YoY revenue growth Q1 DAU growth also tracking above consensus estimates

BREAKING: Elon Musk’s odds of becoming a trillionaire this year hits 82% — a record high.









New in Claude Code: auto mode. Instead of approving every file write and bash command, or skipping permissions entirely, auto mode lets Claude make permission decisions on your behalf. Safeguards check each action before it runs.

The awkward truth is that what counts as a good engineer just became a different thing in the last 4 months




GitHub just living the dream right now



Chinese quant built a simulation of how SPX price reacts to any global event. He’s already made over $100k - with full blockchain proof. He knows exactly where price will go. More than 40 years of SPX trading history have been loaded into MiroFish simulator (18k stars on GitHub) AI analyzed every single moment in that trading history. Now this guy has a fully functional SPX price prediction system. His wallet: @moisturizer?via=cvxv666" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">polymarket.com/@moisturizer?v…
Dozens of successful SPX price-prediction trades and hundreds of tests across other stock markets. Here’s exactly what you need to replicate his stack: - market data APIs (SPX price, use Alpha Vantage or Quandl) - data pipeline (use Python) - feature engineering (for output signals like RSI, MACD) - seed dataset for MiroFish (convert data into structured context) - multi-agent simulation (macro strategist, earnings analyst, sentiment analyst agents etc.) - probability forecast (run different scenarios) - trading / decision Model (SPX futures ES, SPY ETF) Save this pipeline if you want to run a similar simulation on your own data. You can feed the whole thing to your Claude and build your first (even small) simulation model together.








