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Shreyas Hariharan
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Shreyas Hariharan writes Dopamine Markets, a personal blog at dopaminemarkets.com about economics and business. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The Lottery-fication of Everything”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog among other pieces on the gambling epidemic and the 'lottery-fication' theme, alongside prediction-market writing. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Analysis of financial markets and the smartphone.
Most-linked posts?
- The Lottery-fication of Everything2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-21
What Hacker News says?
There has recently been many looks at the epidemic in gambling. Wonder how all of the focus seem to happen at the same time Off the top of my head: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-31/great-bri... https://kyla.substack.com/p/gamblemerica-how-sports-betting-... https://www.ft.com/content/e80df917-2af7-4a37-b9af-55d23f941... https://www.dopaminemarkets.com/p/the-lottery-fication-of-ev... https://www.inv…
Comment linking /p/the-lottery-fication-of-everything
on “Addiction Markets”Submitted The Lottery-fication of Everything as a story · 98 points
HN discussionIsn't the entire point of prediction markets to surface insider trading as a feature and not a bug? Short, casual reads - https://jamaalglenn.substack.com/p/prediction-markets-were-d... - https://money.com/prediction-markets-insider-trading/ More academic? - https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/insiderbet.pdf AND - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZKGbq1YmA Discussion on possible solutions that references the academic vi…
Comment linking /p/how-to-solve-insider-trading-in-prediction
on “Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases”Submitted Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iran is the first war with live odds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How slot machines shaped the design of sports betting, options, and memecoins as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Business of Sports Betting Is Built on Losers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investing is Entertainment and Traders are Celebrities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new American dream is to get rich *quick as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lottery-Fication of Everything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kalshi wins appeal against New Jersey in Third Circuit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iran: The first war with live odds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Markets in Everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Psychology of a Gambling Game as a story · 1 points
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