Why “amount” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
>But it is completely false to say that Amazon is generally able to pass on the cost of all its returns to manufacturers, that this makes returns zero-cost for Amazon, The vendo…
by jasode · Oct 16, 2026
Mathematica has a crazy amount of syntax abbreviations ( https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Syntax.html ). Of course your whish is fulfilled t…
by ktpsns · Oct 16, 2026
This, I think. Coming from someone whose daily work has been time sync for years (me): If you look at Linux and many other Unix and Unix-like systems, to me it's the insertion o…
by wowczarek · Oct 16, 2026
I run a (web and native) app that integrates with Apple calendar and the like with per-user feed configuration. Due to the way Apple polls my servers, I am essentially hit with…
by CSSer · Oct 16, 2026
Ask HN: A platform where anyone can earn money by advertising any product
by reader_reads · Oct 16, 2026 · 2 points
There's already hedge funds that scrape the insider selling data for the executives. You can then build a statistical arbitrage alpha based on the difference between an ordinary…
by lordnacho · Oct 16, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "amount" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "amount" over time.
Quantity or amount is a property that includes numbers and quantifiable phenomena such as mass, time, distance, heat, angle, and information. Quantities can commonly be compared in terms of "more", "less", or "equal", or by assigning a numerical value multiple of a unit of measurement. Quantity is among the basic classes of things along with quality, substance, change, and relation. Some quantities are such by their inner nature, while others function as states of things such as heavy and light, long and short, broad and narrow, small and great, or much and little. Read more on Wikipedia