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 StartupsAnduril in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, over 3x last year's mark
techcrunch.com · 8 points · 3 comments
A CLI that spends a whole stage arguing your startup idea is wrong
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Why are Meta products so bad?
4 points · 3 comments
The AI Productivity Illusion
hardresetmedia.com · 42 points · 12 comments
A downloads organizer is being used to intercept ScreenConnect scam downloads
straycode.dev · 3 points · 0 comments
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
The Psychopath Code – By Pieter Hintjens [pdf]
hintjens.wdfiles.com · 5 points · 0 comments
The Productivity Mirage
frantic.im · 11 points · 0 comments
Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
wsj.com · 67 points · 11 comments
h5i-db: Fast Embeded Time-Series Database Written in Rust
medium.com · 3 points · 0 comments
I got into YC Startup School by hacking it
obaid.wtf · 99 points · 65 comments
How do I find startups that are looking for a dev? How to approach them?
4 points · 7 comments
Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
hopl.info · 23 points · 2 comments
Jacobian Conjecture Refutation Reveals a Structural Limit of AI Interpretability
ctolunchnyc.substack.com · 4 points · 0 comments
New Jersey bans grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set prices
jerseyvindicator.org · 19 points · 0 comments
I vibe coded tinypopups – a simple tool for in-app popups and feedback
tinypopups.com · 2 points · 2 comments
A production-grade OCR pipeline on Kubernetes with vLLM and Rust
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Extension that shows complaints and more on NYC apartment listings
streetleaky.com · 2 points · 0 comments
equitycalculator.org
equitycalculator.org · 4 points · 2 comments
Em dashes are fucking amazing
psychotechnology.substack.com · 56 points · 50 comments
Indian govt orders GitHub to block Bitchat
moneycontrol.com · 9 points · 3 comments
YC Has It – describe your problem, find the YC startup that solves it
ychasit.com · 5 points · 0 comments
AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced and Looks Poised to Be a Grand Slam
phoronix.com · 4 points · 2 comments
Flock cameras keep getting smashed, so now they're hiding inside speed signs
msn.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
getdx.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Tool to validate your HTTP-message-signatures-directory
sitedex.dev · 4 points · 0 comments
YC 2026 fall rfs: is it ok "lowering the cost per kill" in startup world?
ycombinator.com · 7 points · 0 comments
New rental trend? A $200 'work-from-home fee' tacked on to Bay Area lease
abc7news.com · 12 points · 12 comments
AMD's 256-core Epyc 9996 'Venice' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon
tomshardware.com · 17 points · 9 comments
I built a tool that tells who tried your startup idea, and how they died
dejaview.bsct.so · 16 points · 4 comments