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 StartupsCritical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling
gao.gov · 58 points · 100 comments
The startup's Postgres survival guide
hatchet.run · 522 points · 240 comments
Marimo now runs in PyCharm
marimo.io · 130 points · 38 comments
Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer
1 points · 0 comments
France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
postquantum.com · 106 points · 61 comments
ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI
brightsec.com · 60 points · 36 comments
Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
forum.jellyfin.org · 370 points · 338 comments
Kimi Work
kimi.com · 678 points · 279 comments
Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
100 points · 107 comments
NYC Apartment Aquaponics
erinmurphy.dev · 194 points · 82 comments
The footprints of every building in NYC
beautifulpublicdata.com · 71 points · 12 comments
Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
context.dev · 119 points · 86 comments
Just Pay the Subscription
uncommonapps.nyc · 40 points · 117 comments
TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time
1 points · 0 comments
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show – and now I'm banned
washingtonexaminer.com · 25 points · 18 comments
non-tech founder + choosing between buying ClaudeCode or CodeX
2 points · 2 comments
Neuromancer (TV Series) – IMDB
imdb.com · 9 points · 8 comments
VentureBeat Events in San Francisco?
2 points · 0 comments
FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food
theguardian.com · 181 points · 152 comments
Pug.sh – open-source product analytics
pug.sh · 4 points · 6 comments
Claude Fable extended to July 12
forbes.com · 9 points · 1 comments
GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
gao.gov · 277 points · 177 comments
China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
bbc.com · 333 points · 491 comments
Make good open-source products, but how to get user?
5 points · 10 comments
9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX
9mothers.com · 1 points · 0 comments
YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood
fastcompany.com · 118 points · 100 comments
Shadow Web – Cut 64–97% of web page tokens for LLM agents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)
ternlight-demo.vercel.app · 326 points · 70 comments
Vessel An EGA adventure about whether machines can grieve
claude.ai · 22 points · 8 comments