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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RSS feed for StartupsVerifiable receipts for firmware CVE reproduction
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Xi Jinping, pioneering venture capitalist
economist.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Injex – tiny typed DI for Python validates the graph before startup
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
ooni.org · 106 points · 131 comments
Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine
astralcodexten.com · 4 points · 0 comments
We analyzed 18k flashcard reviews from our app's usage data
studycardsai.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll
en.wikipedia.org · 3 points · 0 comments
FilmMap – Where Films and TV series were filmed
thefilmmap.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
43 points · 21 comments
CTO / Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups are leaving / burning out
twitter.com · 4 points · 3 comments
The Cyclospora outbreak was, and still is, a communications failure
cidrap.umn.edu · 10 points · 0 comments
China begins mass production of homegrown DUV chipmaking tools
tomshardware.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Lilian Weng (co-founder) leaving Thinking Machines
twitter.com · 8 points · 5 comments
Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals
rise-reforming.com · 55 points · 19 comments
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper
up.codes · 1 points · 0 comments
Surprising Portion of Rent-Stabilized Apartments Go to NYC's Wealthiest Renters
wsj.com · 4 points · 0 comments
StatsKit – Product Analytics and A/B Testing
statskit.ai · 2 points · 0 comments
A Personal Note from Our Founder (2025)
hindenburgresearch.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Productivity Paradox
en.wikipedia.org · 14 points · 0 comments
Anyclaude-SDK – Claude Code-Style SDK for OpenAI/Anthropic Endpoints
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Simple Daily Game
playchain.app · 2 points · 2 comments
Turn a diff into an evidence-backed Assumption Ledger
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Open Knowledge format v0.2 tackles agentic trust
cloud.google.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
swag.htmx.org · 293 points · 96 comments
Build a self-scaling OCR pipeline with Qwen 3.5 and Kubernetes
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Anthropic secures its AI-native software development lifecycle
claude.com · 8 points · 0 comments
What 180k words look like as a temporal knowledge graph (Oz series)
synaptale.com · 12 points · 2 comments
Htmx 4: The Game
swag.htmx.org · 8 points · 0 comments
Nore – Write in Notion, publish a production-ready blog
nore.sh · 2 points · 0 comments
Robotics startups are hiring across several roles
robotclub.substack.com · 2 points · 0 comments