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Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/07/nx-s1-5922530/patients-betting-kalshi-polymarket-clinical-trials
4•randycupertino•52m ago

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randycupertino•52m ago
Incredibly stupid this is allowed and will become an avenue for rampant insider trading by biotech employees.

Look at the recent ChemoCentryx fraud where they settled for $35 million over misleading data and overstating results. This is going to encourage even more data manipulation.

OsrsNeedsf2P•47m ago
Given how much pressure there is to rig results with these markets, I see this going well.
verdverm•44m ago
I can only imagine the company culture that enables and encourages creating gambling opportunities for this and the other troubling worldly events

Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours

https://pub.doub.ly/
1•knaught•57s ago•1 comments

Effect

https://www.effect.website/
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/elon-musks-x-isnt-done-suing-advertisers-asks-court-t...
1•howard941•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DayOtter – open-source, self-hostable scheduling assistant you talk to

https://github.com/Dayotter/dayotter
1•archits1996•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FLUX.3 Video 1k generation test (180 mins of footage)

https://www.martini.film/p/35b02ee5-2488-4dc6-a9d9-c403211cfede/flux-3-15ryn2n
1•niwrad•3m ago•0 comments

Call Stack Diffs

https://oskrim.github.io/engineering/2026/08/02/call-stack-diffs.html
1•mpweiher•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

1•BoxOfRain•6m ago•0 comments

Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre

https://cdm.link/music-to-confuse-ai-might-be-the-next-new-genre/
1•wyclif•7m ago•0 comments

Autoresearch for Hardware

https://www.onyxresearch.ai
1•tedlutkus•8m ago•1 comments

Make WordArt Online

https://wordart97.net/
1•choult•8m ago•0 comments

To Save C, We Must Save ABI

https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi
2•jackwilsdon•10m ago•0 comments

City That Arrested Clapper at Data Center Meeting Goes Virtual for 'Safety'

https://www.404media.co/city-that-arrested-person-for-clapping-at-data-center-meeting-moves-to-vi...
1•cdrnsf•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Merge – AI-native code review assessments for engineering hiring

https://mergeoa.com
4•harshithl1777•15m ago•0 comments

HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06301
2•wslh•15m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Tally Data Breach

4•gregsadetsky•19m ago•1 comments

Coding agents, defaults, and human judgment

https://rpc3.dev/posts/coding-agents-defaults-and-human-judgment/
2•rpc3•20m ago•0 comments

parakeet.wgsl – Fast, accurate ASR in the browser, via raw WebGPU and SIMD WASM

https://parakeet.narcotic.sh/
2•hamza_q_•22m ago•1 comments

The Two-Year-Old Firefox ARM64 Video Bug

https://fratellobigio.com/posts/the-two-year-old-firefox-arm64-video-bug/
3•fratellobigio•24m ago•0 comments

Big tech's AI-powered 'pervert' glasses are in a losing battle with DuckDuckGo

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/duckduckgo-sunglasses-22377693.php
3•wyclif•24m ago•2 comments

Why are Japan's luxury night trains making a comeback?

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02623/
3•whiteblossom•26m ago•0 comments

Keras 3.15.1

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/releases/tag/v3.15.1
2•tosh•26m ago•0 comments

Vision based touch-less macOS control via hands (FOSS)

https://pawvis.app/
2•heresalexandria•26m ago•1 comments

Tesla and SpaceX to invest $16.8B for Terafab chip factory in Texas

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/tesla-and-spacex-will-invest-16-8b-to-start-building-terafab-ch...
3•joering2•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 514 - Managed infra, agents and data to simulate coding agents as users

https://docs.514.ax/0.5.0-rp/getting-started
6•okane•28m ago•0 comments

Portable Memory System for Coding Agents

https://agentspackai.com/
2•nechmads•28m ago•0 comments

Estrogen masculinizes neural pathways and sex-specific behaviors

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2851224/
3•handfuloflight•29m ago•0 comments

Three Costly Database Failures That Changed Software Engineering Forever

https://stackrender.io/blog/3-costly-database-failures
3•theanonymousone•29m ago•0 comments

DARPA Lift Challenge – Aug 7 – Main Broadcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkao-a9egbY
2•Stevvo•30m ago•0 comments

Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-jobs-july-2026-9.7299225
5•vrganj•30m ago•0 comments

2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys

https://css-tricks.com/2026-state-of-css-devs-surveys/
2•redbell•31m ago•0 comments