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 StartupsCaspian – Talk to Human Tool for AI Agents
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Defending Against an Active Threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs
cisa.gov · 4 points · 0 comments
Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle
arxiv.org · 106 points · 36 comments
Nothing Doing
futilitycloset.com · 40 points · 16 comments
Layoff in Apple's Vision Products Group prove slow progress in spatial computing
appleinsider.com · 4 points · 1 comments
California Draws More Startup Investment Than All Other 49 States Combined
wsj.com · 6 points · 4 comments
Layoffs in Apple's Vision Products Group
appleinsider.com · 6 points · 1 comments
As founding CEO of GitLab, I went "founder mode" on my cancer
cancerletter.com · 9 points · 1 comments
Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
tidalcycles.org · 33 points · 16 comments
The city of Cupertino is 70.9% Asian. A new TV show set there ignores this
sfgate.com · 21 points · 10 comments
Stripe letter to investors: Founders say we're already in the Singularity [pdf]
s3.documentcloud.org · 7 points · 1 comments
AI-Native Accelerator that helps builders make something people want
foundera.app · 2 points · 0 comments
The Modern Tech Career: A Survival Guide
jeremyckahn.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments
Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
I'm a Psychiatrist. I'm Hearing Something New from Young Women
nytimes.com · 8 points · 1 comments
Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product
github.com · 58 points · 22 comments
SanDisk Tapes Out Its First HBF Memory Die, Targets 2027 for Product Samples
storagereview.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Polchinski's Paradox
futilitycloset.com · 8 points · 1 comments
A faithful port of Quake to the browser
willeastcott.github.io · 2 points · 1 comments
What AI automations have you kept running in production?
3 points · 1 comments
Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Sheeplaunch – Product Launch Platform
sheeplaunch.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Apple Accidentally Leaked More Than 10 New Products in macOS Update
macrumors.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Founder of Chinese property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison
bbc.com · 15 points · 3 comments
Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies
reuters.com · 87 points · 22 comments
CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
wsj.com · 450 points · 271 comments
PINE64 halts their open-source hardware manufacturing until the AI bubble bursts
hackster.io · 15 points · 1 comments
How China Saved the Global Oil Market
commoditycontext.com · 30 points · 9 comments
Food Price Outlook, 2026
ers.usda.gov · 3 points · 0 comments
How to Engineer Dissent
growthwiseteams.substack.com · 9 points · 0 comments