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Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

https://poddley.com/guests/ana-kasparian/episodes
1•onesandofgrain•4m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-si...
2•karakoram•4m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•4m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•4m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
2•dshearer•7m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•8m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•12m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•14m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
1•randycupertino•14m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

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2•breve•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•21m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

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2•ks2048•21m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•24m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•24m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•28m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•29m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•29m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
2•SchwKatze•30m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

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1•duggan•31m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
2•guerrilla•32m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

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2•hidden80•32m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•33m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

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2•vedantnair•33m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

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1•vedantnair•34m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

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13•vedantnair•34m ago•4 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•36m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

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2•s4074433•40m ago•2 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•42m ago•1 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