Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat
gnabgib
15 points
2 comments
April 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
ares623
I dunno, I feel it's just democratizing insider trading. And as everyone knows, if it has "democratizing" in it, that means it's automatically good.
sixhobbits
I (my agents) have been playing with the kalshi and poly market APIsv and whatever your opinion on the markets themselves it does feel like there's a bunch of interesting things to do with such a firehose of realtime data. I hope they stay as open and generous as they are now with programmatic access