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 StartupsLaunch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
vespper.com · 13 points · 2 comments
N.Y.P.D. Officers Used Flock Safety to Track License Plates Without a Contract
nytimes.com · 14 points · 2 comments
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 · 22 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