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 StartupsI got into YC Startup School by hacking it
obaid.wtf · 109 points · 70 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 · 27 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 · 34 points · 1 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 · 7 points · 0 comments
Extension that shows complaints and more on NYC apartment listings
streetleaky.com · 3 points · 1 comments
equitycalculator.org
equitycalculator.org · 4 points · 2 comments
Em dashes are amazing
psychotechnology.substack.com · 390 points · 317 comments
Indian govt orders GitHub to block Bitchat
moneycontrol.com · 17 points · 5 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 · 5 points · 2 comments
Flock cameras keep getting smashed, so now they're hiding inside speed signs
msn.com · 13 points · 1 comments
Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
getdx.com · 47 points · 38 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 · 8 points · 0 comments
New rental trend? A $200 'work-from-home fee' tacked on to Bay Area lease
abc7news.com · 23 points · 34 comments
AMD's 256-core Epyc 9996 'Venice' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon
tomshardware.com · 32 points · 15 comments
I built a tool that tells who tried your startup idea, and how they died
dejaview.bsct.so · 18 points · 5 comments
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
45 points · 67 comments
Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts
github.com · 83 points · 15 comments
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
politico.com · 1069 points · 889 comments
A primer for non-coders to design software via structured AI dialogue
github.com · 6 points · 1 comments
How to write a quine
czterycztery.pl · 26 points · 5 comments
SF Speedrun – a Mario style game about surviving SF startup culture
sfspeedrun.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Founders Feed
founders-feed.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Web swing through midtown NYC
swingnyc.com · 79 points · 27 comments
Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app
unlayer.com · 56 points · 40 comments
Building the Grace Cathedral experience
blog.playcanvas.com · 36 points · 6 comments