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Cyclone_··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
You can just ban these gambling and marijuana companies that cause harm to people. This article does a good job of summarizing a few, but not all of the reasons https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/09/29/...
Cyclone_··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
I used to work in adtech and someone in sales told me that DraftKings and FanDuel did not like being referred to as gambling companies. They always wanted to convince people that it wasn't gambling, even though it's so obvious that's what it is.
Cyclone_··on 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
You can always just ban things. The families of those who go into financial ruin from gambling would prefer this.
Cyclone_··on Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
Except your company covers a lot of the cost for your health insurance.
Cyclone_··on Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
So how would private healthcare happen without employer provided insurance?
Cyclone_··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
We use it for sentiment analysis of medical data.
Cyclone_··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
They know that there's big enterprises that will have a strong preference to work with another big enterprise instead of relying on a younger company. At least that's why I think they believe they can do this sort of thing and get away with it.
Cyclone_··on Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
I think this article overestimates how much the average person knows about tech. People know who Musk, Bezos, and Gates are, but hardly anyone outside of tech knows who Collison is. Most don't know much about VC funding either, but they certainly can see when products have become too smart to the point where they get needlessly complicated.
Cyclone_··on New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
What do you mean? The mayor is part of the government.
Cyclone_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
I think you might want to take some time to understand what a sampling bias is.
Cyclone_··on Show HN: Zanagrams
The only thing I would add would be to keep track of the words already found.
Cyclone_··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
I recently bought a home built by Lennar. The project manager kept telling me up until closing about how great the warranty was. He said that the drywall in the hallway going to the basement was going to be finished. When I reported this to the person who handled the warranty he said that the basement wasn't going to be finished. I reported some issues with the cabinets and he said they wouldn't fix it until the 11 month period since he said other things could break until then. He also tried to discourage me from getting an 11 month inspection. When I moved in the grass was almost a foot long and there was a vole infestation in the backyard due to the grass being long. Whenever someone talks about how there is a warranty I usually chuckle a little. The companies know how much it would cost you to sue them.

To be clear small builders have done things far worse in Minnesota. There's a builder on the South side of the Twin Cities that has left many homes with foundation issues. They're no longer in business. My issues look tiny compared to theirs.

Cyclone_··on Midjourney Medical
People on here really need to understand what the incidentalome is.
Cyclone_··on Midjourney Medical
To me it reeks of desperation.
Cyclone_··on 'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York
I'm curious how they would even enforce this law. It seems like they would need to require some record keeping that's made available to the government.
Cyclone_··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
That does make it tough at times when there's the age gap. Every younger place I've been at has been lord of the flies so I've since then looked for places where people are a bit older lol. One of my good friends now is about 10 years older and I've found once you get past 30 whether you click with them matters more. One piece of advice I'd say is just try and find people where you do things with them regularly outside of work.
Cyclone_··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
You probably just never got to know them that well and did things outside of work with them. I've met people at the office and stayed in touch with them and hung out after they left or I left the company.
Cyclone_··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
I've felt the same way. At first it felt great to be able to get more done both at work and at home. But I did feel more isolated as time went on. The last in person place(with some hybrid) I was at had super toxic coworkers but the 2 places I've been at that are fully remote all had great ones. So it's a little disappointing now that they don't allow in person.
Cyclone_··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
Billions? Where are you seeing a need for billions to do a study like that?
Cyclone_··on California’s university system went all in on AI, now it's tearing itself apart
There has been quite a few articles in that paper where the headline is really designed to be clickbait.
Cyclone_··on OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon
Anthropic actually turned an operating profit recently due to huge revenue growth.
Cyclone_··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
I would have to agree. It seems like most of the new funding is going to AI at the expense of crypto.
Cyclone_··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
This feels weird to me. Why wouldn't Google want to go all in on Gemini? Unless they feel anthropic is pretty far ahead with claude?
Cyclone_··on Facebook is cooked
"They were basically all thirst traps of young women, mostly AI-generated, with generic captions." Don't mean to be rude but..might that have something to do with your search history?
Cyclone_··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
I like the way you have the detailed roadmap of features for each version. It's nice for the user to feel connected to development like that.
Cyclone_··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
The fact that they do this isn't very bullish for them achieving whatever they define as AGI.
Cyclone_··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
It looks like for now the ban is just limited to 10 apps. There's quite a few which are arguably worse that received an exception.
Cyclone_··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
That's probably aimed at reducing consumption.
Cyclone_··on Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud
I am not familiar with the legal system in Sweden, but it seems odd that it would be a police report instead of a lawsuit.
Cyclone_··on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
It's not gaslighting. They were transparent enough to own their mistake. The donation isn't really the main story.
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