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Well, here's an interesting tidbit about trying to access that #ycombinator link on my phone - while using an active #VPN client, running with #Wireguard - that it only displays "Sorry" in plain text, as it refuses my VPN connection, while I'm looking for a discussion on the very same 2 bits of tech my phone uses that are presumably the main contents of the discussion.
Times of India | He almost failed computer science. Now Y Combinator and Z Fellows are backing this teen in Delhi
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Samrath Singh Chadha, a 19‑year‑old mathematics (and philosophy) student from Delhi, turned a early failure in computer‑science into a self‑driven passion for programming, building a password manager at 14 and launching an internship platform, InternNova, at 13. After teaching himself C and Python, he joined online founder communities, partnered with a co‑founder in the Bay Area, and earned a spot in Y Combinator and Z Fellows, receiving $600 k in funding before writing any code in San Francisco. Although his initial YC product—a voice AI for landing pages—prompted rapid pivots, he eventually focused on creating a compact AI agent that maps and navigates codebases, achieving notable gains on the SWE‑bench benchmark. Chadha acknowledges AI‑driven job displacement but argues that those who learn to build with these tools will see rising demand, and he urges aspiring founders to apply to accelerators for the discipline of articulating their vision.
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Samrath Singh Chadha was sitting in the middle of a Navy SEAL retreat in the Wisconsin wilderness – being pushed well beyond his limits – when the emails started arriving. Y Combinator, the legendary Silicon Valley accelerator that launched Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe, wanted to know more about his startup idea.
Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration
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148,421 posts later: A model to predict the Hacker News front page
Foresyn이 개발한 Hacker News 게시물의 바이럴리티를 예측하는 모델 기반 도구가 공개되었다. 사용자는 게시물 초안을 입력하면 39,000개 실제 게시물 데이터를 바탕으로 점수를 받고, 상위 댓글과 제목 개선 제안을 받아 게시물 노출 가능성을 높일 수 있다. 이 도구는 Foresyn의 AI 에이전트 기술을 활용한 실시간 데모로, YC Summer 2026 프로그램 지원을 준비 중이다. 창업자는 Stripe 출신으로 AI 리뷰 워크플로우 경험을 보유하며, 실제 B2B용 에이전트 워커와 메모리 루프를 적용한 제품을 개발 중이다.
https://hackernews.foresyn.ai/
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Notes on YC P26, halfway through the batch
YC 2026년 봄 배치 중간 점검에서, 약 400명의 창업자가 200개 회사에서 활동 중이며, AI 코딩 도구인 OpenAI Codex가 창업자들의 개발 속도를 크게 가속화하고 있음이 관찰된다. YC 파트너들은 AI를 활용해 더 빠른 제품 출시를 독려하지만, AI가 완전한 자율 소프트웨어 엔지니어 역할을 하진 못하는 상황이다. YC 프로그램은 창업자 네트워킹과 투자 유치에 도움을 주며, YC 참여가 초기 스타트업에 여전히 가치 있는 선택지임을 시사한다. 다만, YC 지분 희석과 대체 투자 옵션에 대한 고민도 존재한다.
YC's Biggest Scandals
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"This weekend I plan to prepare one of my grandmother's favorite Italian family pasta recipes ... but in Rust!"
Show HN: A New Way of Specifying Software Behavior in A Subset of English in Markdown Files We Call "Prompting Language" (WARNING: Not Safe For Production Use!) (UPDATE: Acquired By Allbirds For $1B, Backed By Promises To Repay Nvidia $2B Next Tuesday)
Anonymous Foreign Bot Convinces One Thousand Fools To Type "curl -fsSL [url] | sudo bash" Then Rando Russian/Chinese Twentysomething Retires To Luxury Yacht Purchased Via Bitcoin Heist
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