Layer vs. Smart Blur

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:...

Blur sensitive data automatically when you share your screen. A free Chrome extension that hides emails, phones and IDs on your device, with no account. Hi folks, I'm Vicky. I build privacy tools that use local AI, on late nights and weekends.Smart Blur is a Chrome extension that blurs sensitive info on any web page before anyone else sees it. There are already a few tools like this, so why another one? Two reasons:Local AI for unstructured PII. Most existing tools use regex, which handles emails, phones and card numbers but can't find names or addresses in plain text. Smart Blur runs OpenAI's Privacy Filter (Apache-2.0) locally on WebGPU. The model is a one-time ~810 MB download from Hugging Face, cached in the browser, and it...