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brendanfinanon 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

For many this was their first opportunity to invest in binary event contracts, so this is a win for financial liferacy

brendanfinanon I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

when you want to start a B2C agent startup but the word "agent" is oversaturated

AI-written text

brendanfinanon The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

The article is quick to shoehorn LLMs in as the last of a long list of established tools.

LLMs are fundamentally different from other writing tools because they attempt to construct meaning in a way that is not done by the author. A main purpose of writing is to convey meaning, so LLM writing defeats that purpose.

brendanfinanon Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders

Which one of these was supposed to be funny?

brendanfinanon Stop Killing Games

I am beyond tired of reading "This isn't X. It's Y"

that happens at the end of nearly every paragraph here

brendanfinanon Agentic Mfw

people were (rightfully) complaining about this kind of humor in 2019

https://dysfunctionalliteracy.com/2019/12/21/why-do-self-hel...

brendanfinanon The Onion to Take over InfoWars

the AI-generated imagery is a non-starter for me

brendanfinanon We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

the Kalshi legal team is a revolving door with the CFTC

brendanfinanon Antimatter has been transported for the first time

Online store for CERN-brand antimatter

brendanfinanon Antimatter has been transported for the first time

https://home.web.cern.ch/order

brendanfinanon A man who broke into jail

cruel and unusual

brendanfinanon GitHub is down again

It's not an antitrust issue because antitrust laws aren't enforced in the U.S.

brendanfinanon Meta Is Being Sued over Whether WhatsApp Encrypts Your Messages

day ending in "y"

brendanfinanon Can AI Generate New Ideas?

Of course it could. The debate will be over whether it has done so already, how "new" the ideas are, and if it is doing so entirely independently.

brendanfinanon All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

It's convenient! I know that they are cutting corners on the product, because they are cutting corners with their ads.

brendanfinanon Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

Some of the customer's money is already crypto though

brendanfinanon Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models

Gotta start somewhere

brendanfinanon The Lumina Probiotic May Cause Blindness in the Same Way as Methanol

Wait, you're telling me I can get clean teeth AND free booze

brendanfinanon OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

would this also work for my video consisting of 10,000 PDFs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125598

brendanfinanon Show HN: Handover.ai – Knowledge transfer made easy

if you quit your day job your team will be lost without you

brendanfinanon Someone at YouTube needs glasses

YouTube is removing videos and moving to Shorts-only in a couple months, so this shouldn't be an issue for long

brendanfinanon Gemini 2.5 Flash

we know how Google makes money

brendanfinanon WEIRD – a way to be on the web

everything is agentic now

brendanfinanon Notion Mail is out

they're certainly working on it in this comments section

brendanfinanon There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage

This arbitrage is even more profitable if you only buy the lucky numbers.

brendanfinanon Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian Acquire Digg

I have bad news for you

brendanfinanon Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

all chat models seem enraptured by what I have to say. The first one to feign disinterest will pass the Turing test

brendanfinanon Obsidian is now free for work

based on the vibes I've seen on the forums, the team is very passionate about keeping Obsidian free, but averse to making it open-source