Layer vs. Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News

One API for prediction markets. Find markets, stream normalized data, place orders, and track positions across Kalshi and Polymarket. Hi HN, I'm David. I built Layer, an API + SDK or building trading bots/ai agents across prediction markets.The idea came from something i kept running into while playing with trading bots. Once your bot needs access to more than 1 venue, you suddenly have to deal with different market schemas, contract definitions, prices, fees and APIs before you can reason about where to trade. That gets messy real fast, especially with prediction markets. The same real-world event can exist on Kalshi & Polymarket, but the contracts can be represented differently.Here's my broader thesis:...

Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News Source code: http://github.com/shawwn/sharcI had more things I wanted to do with this, but I should probably admit to myself I probably won't be.The original idea was for https://news.ycombinator.lol to be "Hacker News, but all the comments are AI." Right now it's "Hacker News, but all the comments are the same as the real HN." Hence, it's completely pointless.Special thanks to dang for collaborating -- he even suggested the name for the codebase, "sharc".Development time was about four months of near daily work: https:...