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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ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

atg.science · 1 points · 0 comments

Sergey Brin has spent $100M to fight California's proposed billionaire tax

fortune.com · 20 points · 11 comments

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

codewithbullet.com · 14 points · 89 comments

Orbit co-founders are running a 50k fellowship for "cool applications"

basisfellowship.org · 4 points · 1 comments

Production-ready detection and response queries for osquery

github.com · 20 points · 1 comments

Anthropic in Talks to Buy World Model AI Startup Decart for $6B

bloomberg.com · 35 points · 4 comments

Jeff Dean has been in talks for a $10B valuation for his new AI startup

businessinsider.com · 4 points · 0 comments

NYC's wealthiest neighborhood has zero Flock cameras

maps.deflock.org · 16 points · 2 comments

Learning 10000 pictures (1973) [pdf]

gwern.net · 19 points · 0 comments

Mooneva Cycle – Offline period tracker with no servers and no accounts

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Lovable raises $400M Series C

lovable.dev · 115 points · 201 comments

Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions

loudbicycle.com · 70 points · 67 comments

Pixel Watch 5

blog.google · 122 points · 401 comments

Mamdani Backs Proposal to End Amazon's Delivery Model in NYC

commondreams.org · 9 points · 0 comments

Are there any production LLM pipeline setups to learn from?

4 points · 0 comments

GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers

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

Kubernetes operator that manages Keycloak configurations

3 points · 0 comments

Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold

blog.google · 25 points · 202 comments

NYC's 349 CCTV feeds as a live crowd map

somodus.com · 2 points · 0 comments

A tycoon game where you run an AI company

store.steampowered.com · 10 points · 1 comments

YC startups are abandoning .com

orangecrumbs.com · 32 points · 54 comments

Computer scientists today are in the position of economists in the early 2000s

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu · 12 points · 11 comments

FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

marlerblog.com · 17 points · 35 comments

AI Coding and Its Discontents

calnewport.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps

calnewport.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

discoveredmaterials.com · 24 points · 37 comments

Review of Studies on the Level of Cannabis Use and Risk of Psychosis

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · 12 points · 0 comments

Advanced AI Sycophancy

seangoedecke.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

arstechnica.com · 3 points · 41 comments