Show HN: Field Guide to SF Slang
A new open-source field guide catalogues 47 San Francisco tech slang terms, including 'Claude-pilled,' 'Corgi girls,' and 'Directionally very bad,' with origins traced and submissions open. The guide,…
A new open-source field guide catalogues 47 San Francisco tech slang terms, including 'Claude-pilled,' 'Corgi girls,' and 'Directionally very bad,' with origins traced and submissions open. The guide,…
Corgi, an AI insurance company, forced the takedown of CorgiGirls.com, a website that ranked its female employees by attractiveness, after threatening legal action. The site, which operated for three …
Corgi Cafe, a 24/7 coffee shop opened by AI-native insurance startup Corgi at 74 Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch on August 8, aims to serve 'very ambitious people' with free WiFi and no minimum spe…
Jack Ma's private equity firm Yunfeng Capital secretly led a $30 million funding round in Corgi, an AI business insurance startup and Y Combinator summer 2024 cohort member, valuing it at $4 billion, …
LemonLime, a San Francisco AI startup and Y Combinator graduate, is apologizing after offering job interviews to applicants who got its logo tattooed at a party, with CEO Jordan Zietz saying seven peo…
Corgi, an AI insurance startup founded in 2024 by Nico Laqua and Emily Yuan, tripled its valuation to $4 billion in eight weeks after closing a Series B extension, according to Forbes. The San Francis…
AI-powered insurance startup Corgi closed a Series B extension at a $4 billion valuation in July 2026, its third funding round in approximately eight weeks, according to Forbes. The two-year-old compa…
AI startup Corgi, known for its seven-day work week policy, has raised new funding at a $4 billion valuation, Forbes reported. The company, which focuses on AI-powered software development tools, has …
AI company executives are facing a surge in death threats and security incidents as public backlash against the technology intensifies, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A man broke into Anth…
Erika Lee moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco to become Head of Brand at Corgi, an AI insurance startup, after a cold DM on X. She finds the city's focus on innovation and building products a star…
A journalist who moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco to work at AI startup Corgi describes the cultural shift between the two cities, noting that San Francisco values ideas and productivity over s…
A dispute between Papermark and Y Combinator-backed Corgi highlights how AI-assisted development complicates open-source copyright claims, as Papermark alleges Corgi used AI to replicate its product's…
Indie makers and creators are experiencing burnout and despair over the belief that AI eliminates competitive moats, but the author argues that code is no longer a moat and that building a true produc…
A public clash between Papermark founder Marc Seitz and Corgi founder Nico Laqua reveals that Corgi's DataRoom product was a near 1:1 reskin of Papermark's open-source codebase, violating its enterpri…
AI-driven fintech startup Corgi launched 50 ETFs in a single week, including 41 new filings, accounting for roughly half of all ETF launches in June. The products span leveraged, buffer, fixed-income,…
Corgi, a thematic ETF issuer, filed for a MANGOS ETF targeting AI leaders Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX, aiming to replace FAANG as Wall Street's favorite acronym. The fund would…