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  • Andrew Paprocki: Bloomberg: home-grown server-side scripting

    this is a great video to watch if you're curious about how the bloomberg terminal ui was made. https://youtu.be/ODgs0eWAIKc

    by pulkas
  • Maybe related, but is anyone familiar with a series of trading terminals from BT in the UK? I cut my teeth in circuitry repair working on these models like the 405 and 405i in the early 2000s. These days I can't find hide nor hair that these things ever existed! Any time there's an article that mentions the Bloomberg terminal I always have dig around for this mythical series of trading platforms, alas I now worry my memory is playing tricks on me.
    by drayfield
  • Starting October 14, 2026, Bloomberg is requiring a physical Bloomberg Keyboard for login and access on all Bloomberg Open Terminal workstations.

    The harder Bloomberg tries to control and restrict its users, the more users will just find alternatives or even build their own proprietary systems. It thinks it can be Apple in the financial data world, but I highly doubt it.

    by jaredsia
  • Related: A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079033 (104 comments)

    by helsinkiandrew
  • I wish that article showed what the display looks like instead of just the keyboard. Others here have mentioned the lovely information density; I'll have to search elsewhere to see it
    by bbkane
  • For completeness' sake, here's also a history of competitor REUTERS' terminal:

    • https://www.thebaron.info/archives/technology/reuter-monitor...

    • https://www.thebaron.info/archives/technology/reuters-techni...

    by jll29
  • The modern Terminal is based on a private fork of Chromium to give it the look and feel of a VT100 terminal, and integrate their private networking and security technologies. The BBT predates HTTP, and backwards compatibility is hugely important to the company- they have a museum where a second-generation Terminal from ~1985 shows the current news, because they are so dedicated to backwards compatibility that they still can support the 1985 hardware.
    by mandevil
  • I have the highest regard for these terse, but information-dense displays that enable humans to quickly grasp all information they need to do their jobs, and nothing more. This is also something avionics provide - a modern cockpit displays are a work of art in layering needed information for what is happening at the time, both the dense PFD and the much specific that communicate aircraft status.
    by rbanffy

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