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 StartupsNY files $36B lawsuit against Kalshi, alleging illegal gambling operation
nbcsports.com · 12 points · 2 comments
Adding Go's Defer to the TypeScript Compiler
healeycodes.com · 17 points · 29 comments
Growth-Ratio Energy Function as Leading Indicator of Agent Task Failure
vishalvermalabs.com · 3 points · 0 comments
NASA's Curiosity rover finds a field of honeycomb-textured ground on Mars
nasa.gov · 6 points · 1 comments
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers
website-auditor.io · 40 points · 61 comments
CaLLMar – play a text-based adventure game in an LLM chat
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?
mattsclancy.github.io · 41 points · 87 comments
ModRetro M64 – Nintendo 64 that plays original cartridges with 4K HDMI
modretro.com · 9 points · 2 comments
I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
github.com · 324 points · 115 comments
Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
AI's real threat to jobs isn't job loss, it's lower paychecks, new research says
businessinsider.com · 49 points · 22 comments
YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview
sfstandard.com · 113 points · 69 comments
Search Statistics Like an Absolute Psychopath
number.weyland.enterprises · 5 points · 0 comments
The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
zaksa.zip · 235 points · 154 comments
A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way
wsj.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth
barchart.com · 29 points · 27 comments
The Bedrock of Software Design
alex.draftist.io · 15 points · 0 comments
China begins mass production of DUV chipmaking machines in major breakthrough
tomshardware.com · 7 points · 1 comments
Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate
science.nasa.gov · 5 points · 0 comments
AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
weeraman.com · 261 points · 292 comments
The development pipeline is a production system
sundry.jerryorr.com · 164 points · 89 comments
I built a Python obfuscator that keeps production traces debuggable
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Texas bans THC cannabinoids except delta-9, except edibles and drinks
khou.com · 7 points · 0 comments
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
techcrunch.com · 10 points · 0 comments
Loops (YC W22) Is Hiring a Product Educator
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
arstechnica.com · 5 points · 3 comments
Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Is Missing Opportunities to Apply Lessons
gao.gov · 9 points · 7 comments
qm
github.com · 92 points · 163 comments