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Cydney Hayes

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.

Yalies raised $17 million this summer in Nob Hill hacker house

For a group of fresh-faced entrepreneurs, securing VC funding was probably easier than finding white clam pizza

July 30, 2026

For the Hacker Herren, every day is Oktoberfest

Hoisting a pint with members of the nationwide beer-guzzling men’s club as they train for Munich

July 30, 2026

Corgi hits the Dogpatch

Plus, the Stud ends up in Meta’s crosshairs

Substack adds AI detection tool to its platform

The feature will help make sure the platform doesn’t ‘turn into LinkedIn,’ per CEO Chris Best

July 21, 2026

Oracle couldn’t predict its downfall

Plus, Claude goes math mode, Will Hunting-style

July 20, 2026

Yardsale has won over Cole Valley with après-ski vibes

After months of construction delays and $30,000 worth of damaged inventory, an outdoor equipment store and coffee shop is finally open

July 16, 2026

Stupid sexy robots

Plus: Jeers for Waymo and a dip for SpaceX

Hundreds of ‘sex machines’ delivered across the street from Rainbow Grocery

We really hope the mailman dropped them off by saying, ‘I’m here to deliver a package…’

June 29, 2026

Stop AI protestor sentenced to jail, hopes to reconnect with Rafael Mandelman

The anti-AI group is shifting its focus away from AI companies and toward City Hall

June 22, 2026

Privacy rights advocates push back against data collection devices in Castro bars

Badlands management says they will continue to use Patronscan despite public outcry

June 18, 2026