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 StartupsThe Cyclospora outbreak was, and still is, a communications failure
cidrap.umn.edu · 11 points · 0 comments
China begins mass production of homegrown DUV chipmaking tools
tomshardware.com · 8 points · 2 comments
Lilian Weng (co-founder) leaving Thinking Machines
twitter.com · 12 points · 5 comments
Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals
rise-reforming.com · 82 points · 38 comments
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper
up.codes · 1 points · 0 comments
Surprising Portion of Rent-Stabilized Apartments Go to NYC's Wealthiest Renters
wsj.com · 6 points · 0 comments
StatsKit – Product Analytics and A/B Testing
statskit.ai · 2 points · 0 comments
A Personal Note from Our Founder (2025)
hindenburgresearch.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Productivity Paradox
en.wikipedia.org · 18 points · 0 comments
Anyclaude-SDK – Claude Code-Style SDK for OpenAI/Anthropic Endpoints
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Simple Daily Game
playchain.app · 3 points · 6 comments
Turn a diff into an evidence-backed Assumption Ledger
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Open Knowledge format v0.2 tackles agentic trust
cloud.google.com · 6 points · 2 comments
Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
swag.htmx.org · 512 points · 207 comments
Build a self-scaling OCR pipeline with Qwen 3.5 and Kubernetes
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Anthropic secures its AI-native software development lifecycle
claude.com · 10 points · 0 comments
What 180k words look like as a temporal knowledge graph (Oz series)
synaptale.com · 22 points · 11 comments
Htmx 4: The Game
swag.htmx.org · 11 points · 0 comments
Nore – Write in Notion, publish a production-ready blog
nore.sh · 2 points · 0 comments
Robotics startups are hiring across several roles
robotclub.substack.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Anduril in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, over 3x last year's mark
techcrunch.com · 9 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 · 72 points · 28 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 · 9 points · 0 comments
The Productivity Mirage
frantic.im · 15 points · 0 comments
Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
wsj.com · 333 points · 226 comments
h5i-db: Fast Embeded Time-Series Database Written in Rust
medium.com · 3 points · 0 comments