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Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Orcha – Run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, locally

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•1m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•1m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
1•mnming•1m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
1•juujian•3m ago•0 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•7m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
1•DEntisT_•9m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
1•tosh•10m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

https://mini-ledger.exe.xyz/
1•simonvc•10m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
4•sakanakana00•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•18m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
3•Tehnix•19m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
4•Nive11•21m ago•6 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
2•hunglee2•24m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
2•chartscout•27m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
3•AlexeyBrin•30m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
2•machielrey•31m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
3•tablets•36m ago•1 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•40m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•40m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•41m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•47m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•52m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•54m ago•1 comments

Slop News - The Front Page right now but it's only Slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•58m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: If it were to be sold, how much would HN cost?

3•01-_-•1mo ago

Comments

colesantiago•1mo ago
$0.02
01-_-•1mo ago
Haha, you failed.
bigyabai•1mo ago
I don't know if they're wrong. HN's primary utility is promoting YC's job openings and product announcements alongside the more important industry-wide news. Turn it into a generic link aggregator, and owning/moderating/updating the site might be more trouble than it's worth.
01-_-•1mo ago
You forgot to mention the great discussions that take place here and that revolve around topics that are very relevant to your readers.
viraptor•1mo ago
It is, but that doesn't bring value for the owners on its own. Something else has to exist on top, or you'd have to run the service and moderation on donations. The forum on its own has negative value.
baobun•1mo ago
Now you are talking about value but you asked about cost. They are not the same.

bigyabai is talking about utility from perspective of the owner or a hypothetical buyer, not concerned with the wider community.

colesantiago•1mo ago
You failed realise that bookface is of much much more value than HN.

HN is just a free link aggregator, you can't make money from it.

bookface is only accessible to YC founders, which means YC founders have given a chunk of their company away to access it (as a bonus)

You see, the network of bookface (and bookface its self as a part of YC) is more valuable than HN.

Bender•1mo ago
If it were to be sold, how much would HN cost?

I think it would have to include YC itself so in the billions, or if one counts the portfolio then theoretically hundreds of billions but only YC's financial people could really answer that and even then the market would have to decide. HN is just a link aggregator and link discussion site under YC.

Guestmodinfo•1mo ago
Atleast around 1B$, because it is a prime discussion place for tinkerers. It makes sense to be valued at around 2 cents worth compared to what twitter was
01-_-•1mo ago
exactly
bigyabai•1mo ago
While we're at it, I'd like to propose a valuation of $5 billion for Neogaf. Any objections?
01-_-•1mo ago
Whoa, hold on! That's a lot of money :D

They must already be earning something from the ads.

uberman•1mo ago
I have to disagree. In my opinion, there is no real way to monetize this in a way that the community would embrace. You might run ads or email campaigns for a year but I imagine most users would just go someplace newer or better. No way to monetize ultimately means no value.
Guestmodinfo•1mo ago
There's nothing to be gained from selling the services of HN to you and me i.e. the general public but a buyer who can buy HN for 1B$ could set some fine tuning in place that suits their interest without changing the site as much. Like someone fine tune HN as an engagement metric among the HN for various product designs. It's a media outlet, those controlling it can have better use suiting their purposes, they don't have to sell it like film tickets to make money out of it
uberman•1mo ago
Twitter has about 40k times the daily activity of HN. If we assume Twitter has a value of 40b that would make hn valued at 1m which I think is still way way over valued imho.
toomuchtodo•1mo ago
What is the value of Wikipedia? Hard to value public goods, because the value of HN comes from its mods. I suppose if one must, start at whatever gains YC has seen on its investments during HN's lifetime, with some discount for the fact that ZIRP is unlikely to occur again and the future will not be like the past wrt the startup ecosystem. There is no guarantee a new owner would cultivate the same forum participants who might consider being a founder or employee of a YC portfolio company. The product is YC portfolio company stock; HN is machine to leverage curious, driven people as fuel for VC gains, with the consumer excess being brain tickles for the rest of us.

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/pulling-back-the-curtain-...

https://www.marketsentiment.co/p/the-yc-report