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 StartupsMiso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Companion AI, Sycophancy, and the Engineering of Attachment
papers.ssrn.com · 6 points · 0 comments
What's the Point of Your Startup?
6 points · 18 comments
U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
fred.stlouisfed.org · 122 points · 215 comments
The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem
futilitycloset.com · 36 points · 51 comments
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
tasklet.ai · 1 points · 0 comments
Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way
maurycyz.com · 182 points · 193 comments
What are you using for LLM inference in production?
3 points · 4 comments
Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation
laurentiugabriel.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments
How your software will fail at scale [video]
youtube.com · 6 points · 0 comments
The bond market isn’t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling
reuters.com · 139 points · 96 comments
Reimagine the World with Nano Banana in Google Earth
blog.google · 6 points · 2 comments
America's startup boom offers hope for the future of work
economist.com · 9 points · 0 comments
Uefa to boycott FIFA competitions if Infantino's proposal goes through
bbc.com · 6 points · 1 comments
AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x
leaddev.com · 43 points · 36 comments
Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism
nbcnews.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring a Senior Chemical Process Engineer
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Delivery workers made $104M more in tips after NYC began enforcing new law
nydailynews.com · 39 points · 28 comments
UEFA members vote to boycott FIFA if Infantino's World Cup plans pursued
aljazeera.com · 7 points · 2 comments
How did you fund your startup without VC?
5 points · 2 comments
Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset?
rusty.today · 39 points · 7 comments
China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines
reuters.com · 110 points · 118 comments
Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
prized.dev · 77 points · 59 comments
A browser extension that flags GitHub repos with suspicious star growth
ayoublidjici-dotcom.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments
Software Foundations Series
softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu · 8 points · 0 comments
Uefa to discuss boycotting World Cup in emergency meeting after FIFA bombshell
independent.co.uk · 11 points · 0 comments
Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
grumpygamer.com · 259 points · 118 comments
How to get more coding productivity with LLMs
6 points · 2 comments
The Productivity Mirage
frantic.im · 359 points · 153 comments
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
science.org · 619 points · 317 comments