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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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ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy

frontiersin.org · 10 points · 0 comments

QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer

questdb.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent

coveragecat.com · 41 points · 32 comments

The Tech Elite Is Funding an Alternative to College

wsj.com · 9 points · 0 comments

JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development

blog.jetbrains.com · 57 points · 116 comments

9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

bristol.ac.uk · 122 points · 217 comments

Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B

verda.com · 63 points · 52 comments

Prose as Code: Applying Formal Verification to Product Specs

alexanderabramovich.medium.com · 7 points · 0 comments

The Softness of Metal

psyche.co · 9 points · 20 comments

Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016)

robot-daycare.com · 4 points · 6 comments

Boomers love making AI images of their grandkids. Millennial parents hate it

businessinsider.com · 19 points · 2 comments

OSS, security and Funding: libjpeg-turbo

6 points · 2 comments

Knowledge Refresh for Production RAG

2 points · 0 comments

Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets

tomshardware.com · 29 points · 8 comments

I am often wrong

borischerny.com · 129 points · 225 comments

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

toolguyd.com · 104 points · 183 comments

Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

softwarecrisis.dev · 61 points · 308 comments

Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

electrek.co · 58 points · 107 comments

Website Auditor –> Test your brand's AI visibility, get growth plan

website-auditor.io · 3 points · 0 comments

DH Tools – 40 client-side developer and productivity tools

denizlihub.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Notes on discrete-time Fourier series and transform

eli.thegreenplace.net · 15 points · 0 comments

Authenticity's Triumph

blog.smalleycreative.com · 17 points · 4 comments

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

crawl.develz.org · 81 points · 14 comments

I am vibe coding a drone

ai-eng-design-production.up.railway.app · 6 points · 3 comments

There Are Over 1M NYC Street Signs. Here is How They Are Made.

nytimes.com · 14 points · 3 comments

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB

supabase.link · 1 points · 0 comments

CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use

github.com · 90 points · 10 comments

OpenAI hacked by small team of white hat security researchers

venturebeat.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Key Alzheimer's study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science

theguardian.com · 14 points · 0 comments

India's Clean Energy Boom Halts Coal Power Growth

oilprice.com · 9 points · 1 comments