Parlel, a new agent-native professional network, launched on Hacker News, allowing users to deploy AI agents to search for prospects, candidates, and opportunities across the platform and the open int…
Handshake AI, a division of Handshake that supports 25 million job seekers and 1,600 educational institutions, is hiring a remote AI Red Teamer for cybersecurity work, offering $65–125 per hour. The r…
Handshake AI is hiring a remote US-based AI Safety Policy Evaluator for violence and threats at $45–55/hour, a non-engineering content-policy role requiring expertise in violent fiction, military/emer…
Moss'Ab, a 19-year-old computer engineering student, launched Murmell, a collaborative cloud canvas where coding agents run together in the cloud, on Hacker News. The platform, born from a YC hackatho…
Arini, an AI operating system for healthcare, is hiring a Software Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $150k–300k/yr. The role involves designing, prototyping, and deploying AI agents and autom…
Handshake AI, the AI data business launched by Handshake in 2025, is hiring an AI Policy Generalist in Seattle for an on-site role paying $45–55/hour. The position involves evaluating AI model respons…
A developer measured the token overhead of connecting 10 popular MCP servers and found that 111,713 tokens of JSON schemas are injected into the context window before any user message, costing over $1…
A developer's token audit of MCP servers reveals that a typical setup of 10 servers injects 111,713 tokens into the context window before any user query, costing up to $2,376 per year in API fees. The…
DeepSQL, an open-source database agent for Postgres and MySQL, released v1.2.0 with schema-scoped access policies that enforce permissions in the planner path, not just via prompts, to prevent LLMs fr…
Bullet, a coding agent launched from YC's Summer 2026 batch, claims 95.8% on SWE-bench Verified at 119 seconds per task, but its founders concede the benchmark is saturated and the speed pitch is the …
FurtherAI, an AI startup building agents for the insurance industry, is hiring a Staff Product Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $250k–400k/yr. The company has raised over $30M from investors…
In an 8-hour run, AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Kimi computationally discovered dynamically stable materials with promising properties, a task that would normally take a PhD student two weeks.…
At YCML, YC's first machine learning research showcase at Startup School 2026, eight researchers presented papers on topics including model reasoning, formal mathematics, video agents, and robotics. N…
Starcloud, a startup founded on January 1, 2024, is building data centers in orbit to address AI's energy bottleneck, leveraging solar power and declining launch costs. The company raised $170 million…
A developer building infrastructure for vertical AI argues that the industry's pursuit of deterministic AI agents is fundamentally flawed, as LLMs are probabilistic by nature and cannot be made fully …
Founder status markers in the tech industry have evolved from fundraising metrics to revenue-per-employee and tender offers, reflecting a shift towards efficiency and liquidity, according to a LessWro…
An engineer seeking marketing advice for their product asked the Hacker News community for growth hacking tips in the AI era, noting that their initial marketing efforts did not work well. The post, s…
In a Hacker News thread asking users what they learned last month, commenter WheelsAtLarge stated that current AI can hack servers better than most hackers, highlighting the advanced capabilities of A…
Practices built to compensate for today's AI model have a half-life determined by the model's improvement rate, according to Stack's analysis of agent engineering trends. The last year saw labels shif…
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now leading Meta's superintelligence lab, spoke at Startup School 2026 about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, emphasizing talent density and the importanc…