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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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Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

reddit.com · 18 points · 1 comments

Letter to Anthropic Re: Planned Initial Public Offering

comptroller.nyc.gov · 5 points · 0 comments

Russia moves possible anti-satellite near another satellite used by Ukraine

bsky.app · 16 points · 7 comments

Letter to Anthropic Re: Planned Initial Public Offering

comptroller.nyc.gov · 12 points · 1 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers

artie.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Survey: How do you create the video demo for your project or product?

2 points · 2 comments

For those who left Big Tech for early-stage startups, do you regret it?

3 points · 1 comments

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman (2008)

theguardian.com · 12 points · 2 comments

Brax Wink. The most private mobile phone. Modular. Open source

braxtech.net · 9 points · 9 comments

Open weight takes 71.5% of tokens and 23% of spend

vercel.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring

job-boards.greenhouse.io · 1 points · 0 comments

Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push

wired.com · 16 points · 3 comments

Linux on Snapdragon: Snapdragon X2 Series Officially Supports Linux [video]

youtube.com · 3 points · 0 comments

I spent 48 hours in SF hanging out with billionaires, data labs and AI founders

twitter.com · 4 points · 1 comments

CoreWeave Founders Shield Fortunes with $3.3B Stock Sales

bloomberg.com · 10 points · 0 comments

An LSP layer for 70%+ token reduction in multi-turn agents

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Has China lost 130M people?

thetimes.com · 8 points · 0 comments

Big Walk developers rule out Xbox release due to BDS boycott of Microsoft

windowscentral.com · 6 points · 1 comments

I gained 20k impressions on my LinkedIn profile in 100 days

2 points · 1 comments

Asia chip stocks fall, AI funding worries

cnbc.com · 15 points · 0 comments

Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production

tomshardware.com · 8 points · 0 comments

OpenAI bugging suspect booked one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia

cnbc.com · 8 points · 0 comments

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

startupfortune.com · 31 points · 277 comments

A Chemically Defined Synthetic Cell Capable of Growth and Replication

biorxiv.org · 3 points · 0 comments

Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?

2 points · 8 comments

Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

lwn.net · 22 points · 110 comments

T0: We trained a 256M SOTA open-weights time-series forecasting model

github.com · 14 points · 0 comments

SpaceX and Google said no. Now his software rides SpaceX rocket next to Google's

techcrunch.com · 9 points · 0 comments

I let an AI run my startup for a week

daily.tinyprojects.dev · 33 points · 73 comments

New York City's iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot

cnn.com · 10 points · 88 comments