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If North Korean Cybercrime Was a Startup, How Much Would It Be Worth? (lockeidentity.com)
Akmatori: Open-Source AI Agents for Incident Management (github.com)
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (wsj.com)
I'll pay you $10 to roast my startup (creditcrouton.com)
What are you planning to learn in 2026?
Following up from [this post](https://lobste.rs/s/mx3gau/what_are_you_planning_learn_2025) from last year, I’d love to know what you Lobsters are planning to learn in 2026!
Focus apps claim to improve your productivity. Do they work? (theconversation.com)
State of Startups 2025 [pdf] (info.carta.com)
The ML drug discovery startup trying hard to not cheat (owlposting.com)
Show HN: Basehook – Webhook management system built on Postgres (github.com)
Hi HN! I built Basehook to automate common webhook patterns I&#x27;ve had to manually implement across multiple projects: buffering, smart deduplication, and payload inspection.<p>The core idea: webhooks are stored in Postgres, grouped by thread ID and revision number. You can then consume them eith...
Are you a deep-tech founder working on an interesting project?
Hey, are you a deep tech founder working on something interesting in the niche? If yes, I would really like to discuss what you are building.<p>I am also a researcher and as a hobbyist, I grew a newsletter with ~5,000 readers. Last week only, I committed my community that I will start covering deep ...
Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI startup behind Kimi, closed a $500M Series C (twitter.com)
Show HN: All startup news, one feed! (startupnutshell.com)
Read all startup news in one place. Don&#x27;t need to visit multiple sites to read startup news. Stop wasting time.
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history (wsj.com)
How to Ruin All of Package Management (nesbitt.io)
Worktrunk: Git worktree management for parallel AI agent workflows (worktrunk.dev)
Group Customer Interviewing Practice (adrianhoward.com)
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (wsj.com)
Show HN: Real-Time Interview Assistant (voicemeetai.com)
Hi HN! I built VoiceMeetAI, a Browser Extension for interviews and meetings.<p>The idea is simple: when someone asks you a question, you can record the audio (tab or mic), it gets transcribed, and the extension generates an answer in real time.
Show HN: Weekly newsletter with tactical frameworks from 50 $1M+ founders (doanything.com)
Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;ve spent the last 6 months interviewing founders who scaled to $1M+ ARR to understand what actually worked vs. what just sounds good in retrospect.<p>The surprising finding: Almost none of them had a grand vision at the start. They just solved one specific problem exceptionally well,...
Advice for generalists who want to join startups (twitter.com)
OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History (wsj.com)
Ask HN: Technical co-founder wanted for modern baseball simulation game
Hi HN,<p>I’m building DiamondDesk, a modern baseball simulation inspired by Scoresheet &#x2F; Strat-O-Matic — deep strategy, text-driven play-by-play, minimal graphics, maximum immersion.<p>Scoresheet-style sims are brilliant, but the UX and game flow feel stuck in the late 90s. My goal is to modern...
I built a free tool to explore app market data for indie developers and founders (appark.ai)
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (wsj.com)
Why we trust strangers’ open source more than our colleagues’ (00f.net)
New York's Subway, an Interview with Matthew Algeo (exasperatedinfrastructures.com)
Show HN: I quit 5 projects from burnout, so I built an app that forces breaks (kensho.zone)
Pattern: Work 8 hours straight - burn out by Wednesday - abandon project by Friday.<p>Built something that physically stops me: - Focus timer locks at 100 min until you rest 10 min (meditation&#x2F;breaks) - Task manager locks at 5 tasks until you write 1 reflection - No override buttons. No &quot;j...
Ask HN: How good do I need to be to work at a startup?
I want to work at a startup, but I don&#x27;t know how to stand out. Any advice? I&#x27;m a senior atm but if I could I&#x27;d drive down to SF tomorrow to start work...<p>I build a lot and love it but some of these applications say things like &quot;what are you the top 1% at?&quot;. I don&#x27;t g...
Warren Buffett’s sharpest lessons in investing (theguardian.com)
The Podcast 'Productivity' Trap (theatlantic.com)