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HackerTool – A cool toolkit with many useful features

https://github.com/SuperGamer474/hackertool-simulator
1•SuperGamer474•36s ago•0 comments

Second Reality Ported to Windows

https://bsky.app/profile/conspiracy.hu/post/3lvem4wbcak2g
1•z303•1m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Gemini CLI is buggy; use at your own risk

1•prmph•3m ago•0 comments

Withdrawal of Baltimore-Washington Superconducting Magnetic Levitation Project [pdf]

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-14732.pdf
1•impish9208•4m ago•0 comments

DIY Dual-Screen Cyberdeck with Raspberry Pi 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigAxzQGeLg
1•cpdomina•4m ago•0 comments

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (funder of NPR, PBS) will shut down

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cpb-funder-npr-pbs-says-will-shut-congress-cuts-money-rcna222524
1•bikenaga•5m ago•0 comments

Dartboat: Darts Game Scorer

https://potato.am/dartboat/
1•indigodaddy•11m ago•0 comments

Fast and Slow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
1•sarreph•16m ago•0 comments

Hal Abelson (Co-Author of SICP) InfiniteHistoryProject MIT (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8k8o7zkA1o
1•so-cal-schemer•20m ago•1 comments

Generate Charli XCX Brat-style text and album covers

https://bratgenerator.lol
2•Rarpr•25m ago•0 comments

Trailblazing SF coffee chain about to be sold to private equity firm for $145M

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/private-equity-firm-buying-sf-coffee-chain-20798084.php
3•iancmceachern•26m ago•0 comments

Twentyseven 1.0

https://blog.poisson.chat/posts/2025-08-01-twentyseven.html
7•082349872349872•30m ago•0 comments

Groundwater depletion sinks home prices in California's Central Valley

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-groundwater-depletion-home-prices-california.html
5•bikenaga•32m ago•0 comments

Was the Renaissance Real?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/inventing-the-renaissance-ada-palmer-book-review-the-world-at-first-light-bernd-roeck
2•littlexsparkee•32m ago•1 comments

Cerebras Code

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-code
16•d3vr•36m ago•2 comments

Are you sure you are buying good car?

https://carconsul.com/
1•nickgrigora•38m ago•0 comments

U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/01/trump-firing-bureau-labor-statistics-chief-jobs-report-00488960
21•JumpCrisscross•38m ago•1 comments

Updated Digital Identity Guidelines are Here (NIST 800-63 Revision 4)

https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/63/4/final
1•DASD•39m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator is looking for DOGE-related startups for its next cohort

https://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-doge-startups-government-waste-ai-2025-8
3•nickcotter•45m ago•0 comments

Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/coffeematic-pc.html
31•dougdude3339•47m ago•2 comments

Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/apple-ceo-tells-staff-ai-is-ours-to-grab-in-hourlong-pep-talk
7•andrew_lastmile•50m ago•3 comments

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/
24•minimaxir•50m ago•7 comments

The State of Design and the Iconfactory

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/state-of-iconfactory/
1•mgrayson•53m ago•0 comments

GitHub Copilot crosses 20M all-time users

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/github-copilot-crosses-20-million-all-time-users/
2•indigodaddy•56m ago•1 comments

First Contact – New in Little Snitch Mini 1.8

https://www.obdev.at/blog/first-contact/
1•robenkleene•57m ago•1 comments

AI is entering an 'unprecedented regime.' Should we stop it - and can we?

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-entering-an-unprecedented-regime-should-we-stop-it-and-can-we-before-it-destroys-us
2•Bluestein•58m ago•0 comments

Stack traces for Postgres errors with backtrace_functions

https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/stack-traces-postgres-errors-backtracefunctions
2•tanelpoder•59m ago•0 comments

China Just Refueled a Satellite in Space

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-just-refueled-a-satellite-in-space-america-should-be-worried
6•jonbaer•1h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How do you avoid job hunting burnout?

5•b8•1h ago•3 comments

GM's $4B Bet: Gasoline Is Still King

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/GMs-4B-Bet-Gasoline-is-Still-King.html
3•PaulHoule•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Has any YC founder ever gone to jail for startup-related crimes?

8•TeslaK20•20h ago
Forbes 30 under 30 has become infamous for it's press-to-prison pipeline.

But YC has selected literally thousands of founders, maybe tens of thousands, and I haven't heard of any of them getting arrested for fraud.

Are there any exceptions? And why is YC so good at screening out impressive-seeming but fraudulent founders?

Comments

m0zzie•19h ago
IIRC there have been a few but the only one I specifically remember is uBiome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBiome

YC has yet to back a Theranos-scale fraud.. unless there is one that simply hasn't been discovered yet.

TeslaK20•19h ago
Oh I remember hearing about that one now! I didn't realize it was YC. That one's interesting since the founders are still fugitives.
anovikov•17h ago
I worked for a YC founder (won't name it ofc) on a project that went through its pipeline with a big success around 10 years ago, although for me it was evident that the idea was unworkable and i wondered how could they raise funding. As it turned out, one or both of cofounders had criminal convictions before, one of them actually came up with the idea of that product while in prison, they completely faked all their user and traction numbers and siphoned money out of investors, and almost everything that was ever actually done, was done by a single developer i have supplied them. Then they were uncovered and went into hiding again (probably always used fake names so idk if it even matters - maybe they are still around us).

Ironically, the idea that was unworkable back then, appears to be still unworkable, and is still actively tried by one team i talk with! And they recently raised money from Google.