Startups stories

The startup ecosystem on Hacker News spans bootstrapped side projects, YC launches, Series A announcements, and hard-won lessons from founders who have been through it. This archive tracks the stories that matter to people building companies.

Funding rounds, pivot stories, growth tactics, and product-market-fit debates all surface here. Whether you are evaluating your next idea or following how experienced founders navigate uncertainty, these discussions offer signal beyond the press release.

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Enterprise Postgres for AI and more, from prototype to production

pgedge.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Hospitals use AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers use AI to deny them.

twitter.com · 7 points · 0 comments

What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like?

blog.glyph.im · 42 points · 17 comments

An 8BitDo Switch controller adventure

nyanpasu64.gitlab.io · 4 points · 1 comments

AlloyDB's new agentic database architecture

cloud.google.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer

theguardian.com · 37 points · 25 comments

Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers

utilitydive.com · 19 points · 9 comments

ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff

reuters.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike

motherjones.com · 11 points · 30 comments

Washington Heights Man Cleans One NYC Block a Day for 100 Days,Neighbors Join In

hoodline.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Locked Down Passkey and Keychain Backups

mjtsai.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Geely's AI fast charging 'heals' EV batteries for 20% more cycle life

electrek.co · 6 points · 0 comments

Peter Thiel slams pope's AI encyclical as gift to Chinese Communist Party

politico.com · 7 points · 5 comments

Theranos founder reportedly to be transferred to halfway home next year

theguardian.com · 21 points · 5 comments

Power your agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available

cloud.google.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?

3 points · 1 comments

Vibe Coding Production Kit – a production workflow for AI coding agents

github.com · 4 points · 6 comments

Canary (YC) – Independent verification for AI code

runcanary.ai · 7 points · 0 comments

Mamdani is the most popular elected official in NYC: poll

nydailynews.com · 27 points · 2 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

resobscura.substack.com · 32 points · 44 comments

Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers

usestable.com · 1 points · 0 comments

A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem

instacloud.com · 9 points · 10 comments

Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

github.com · 32 points · 141 comments

Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain

arstechnica.com · 3 points · 11 comments

AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?

2 points · 9 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

qualcomm.com · 109 points · 271 comments

Surprise, Meta's latest AI gimmick is just underpaid humans

avclub.com · 12 points · 10 comments

DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why

theintercept.com · 122 points · 189 comments

Suparelay – Call any phone in the world from a browser tab

suparelay.app · 3 points · 2 comments

Hubble Network Opens Satellite Coverage to All Bluetooth Devices

businesswire.com · 8 points · 5 comments