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Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•2m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•3m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•4m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•5m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
1•pseudolus•5m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
1•bkls•9m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•10m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
3•roknovosel•11m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•19m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•19m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•21m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•21m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•21m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
2•pseudolus•22m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•22m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•23m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•24m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•24m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•29m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•31m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•32m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•33m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why does YC care what tech stack I use?

5•codecracker3001•6mo ago
Are they gonna reject if I use angular over react?

Edit 1: What are they actually looking for?

Comments

PaulHoule•6mo ago
No.
quantdev1•6mo ago
Is this related to getting a job at a YC-backed org, or getting funded?
sama004•6mo ago
he's asking about getting funded
codecracker3001•6mo ago
getting funded. its a question on the application
muzani•6mo ago
In interviews, I do care, but more on why you're using this stack. If you know only one stack and use that for everything, that's pretty bad. If you're thinking, "Hey let's use JS/Kotlin on every part of the stack," that hints at a fear of learning new stacks as well.

By ten years of experience, you should probably have used all the major tech stacks in your area of expertise. If you're BE, probably Go, Node, Rails, Django, Spring, maybe even PHP. If mobile you should be able to use native, capacitor, PWA, Flutter, React Native, maybe KMP. And so on.

It's sometimes a bonus if you're using something someone has never heard of. Y Combinator is named after a Lisp thing. PG was using Lisp as a hack while everyone else was using C and he credits it for his rapid development speed. Many tools are just built for teams of > 3, and lose the advantage of having a solo dev.

If you're competing with Google's AI team and you use something generic, then... you're probably not going to make it. If you're building something that doesn't require a lot of technical expertise, they might still want to suss out that you know the difference between JavaScript and Java.

codecracker3001•6mo ago
Interesting, we're building a Vision based AI product so I wrote a super comprehensive list for what AI models + the software stack I think we should be using. Its different than what we're actually using because I made that list with the funding and talent in mind and sort of a 3 year tech stack than a 3 month tech stack.
v5v3•6mo ago
>By ten years of experience, you should probably have used all the major tech stacks in your area of expertise. If you're BE, probably Go, Node, Rails, Django, Spring, maybe even PHP. If mobile you should be able to use native, capacitor, PWA, Flutter, React Native, maybe KMP. And so on.

That's not real life.

Most Devs get a job and learn a stack and then they stay in that stack unless there is a reason to change

Most BE will know one of either Java or .Net or Python. As that is what most corporates use.

muzani•6mo ago
Corporates will be that way. YC applicants are asking for $500k to build faster than a team of the smartest people in the world funded over millions per year. If you want to say you're in the top 3% of applicants, it's one input form to showcase that.
1oooqooq•6mo ago
because they have metrics on how that impact what they want most: quick exits by acquisition