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 Startups"Sike" vs. "Psych"
reddit.com · 6 points · 3 comments
SpaceX Attempted to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cognition
bloomberg.com · 7 points · 1 comments
Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams
github.com · 34 points · 37 comments
Casio F-B100W-1A
casio.com · 468 points · 388 comments
HTML Can Do That
chrisburnell.com · 24 points · 1 comments
The $1 Trillion Black Box
propublica.org · 6 points · 0 comments
ServiceNow are pushing customers off SaaS – are other industries doing similar?
4 points · 4 comments
Who's in charge? The fraught union of automation and human behavior
knowablemagazine.org · 5 points · 0 comments
OpenAI's Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared with Anthropic
wsj.com · 20 points · 4 comments
Unemployment Benefits Boost Growth
nominalnews.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Find Chicago Parking Cops
secondcitycitation.com · 18 points · 12 comments
Palantir Leads AI Data Deal with USA Today Sparking a Newsroom Revolt
forbes.com · 15 points · 2 comments
VCs Pour Billions into Physical AI as the Next Wave of AI Investing Takes Shape
news.crunchbase.com · 3 points · 1 comments
The Capital Cycle Theory
s-1.vercel.app · 18 points · 2 comments
How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
ikea.com · 207 points · 326 comments
macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps
github.com · 24 points · 3 comments
Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI
machine0.io · 18 points · 44 comments
Remote work benefits are much bigger than a paycheck
thehill.com · 34 points · 11 comments
Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop
quantum5.ca · 24 points · 301 comments
Dreadsweeper – Minesweeper Raycasted
dreadsweeper.franzai.com · 3 points · 1 comments
A $21B 'Kids in Chips' Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia Talent
wsj.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Dial-up internet – made a thing that lets you do it again
56k.rip · 12 points · 6 comments
AI-generated music box version of any song (for baby)
lullabyconverter.com · 4 points · 0 comments
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
fast.ai · 44 points · 210 comments
A Decongestant Debate That Won't Clear Up
undark.org · 12 points · 7 comments
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
13 points · 69 comments
Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
90 points · 976 comments
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
meanhamster.com · 33 points · 29 comments
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
highereddive.com · 166 points · 192 comments
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
techcrunch.com · 486 points · 301 comments