Slight nitpick (in the spirit of HN): Looks like the search is case sensitive when I think HN usernames are not. Only realised when my phone capitalised the first letter and it returned no results, but worked after searching in lowercase.

If the users are from those companies, this is not lying.

If they added logos for companies their users are not from, it would be lying.

Adding a logo to your webpage has started to follow different patterns for the stage of the company.

Early stage companies show things like "people at X, Y, Z use our product!" (showing logos without permission), whilst later stage ones tend to show logos after asking for permission, and with more formal case studies.

They may not have asked for permission to show these logos, but that's not the same thing as lying.

In my experience documentation generation has a lower error rate than code generation, and the costs of errors are lower too.

I'm not really a big fan of AI agents writing features end-to-end, but I can definitely see them updating documentation alongside pull requests.

HN is still one of the few places on the internet to get such esoteric, expert and intellectually stimulating content. It's like an Island where the spirit of 'the old internet' still lives on.

If they've sufficiently damaged the vector one tourist alone cannot bring it back - the disease vector would also need to come back.

Yes ex-Meta could imply non-technical, but OP is a CTO with a Stanford computer science degree. Their job title and skills are technical.

From what I can see, the author is a CTO who is ex-meta and Stanford computer science. They look like a technical co-founder to me.

I know there's this annoying and widely prevalent persona of co-founder dater with only ideas, and no skills to build them, but this author doesn't seem to be that.

OP is a technical co-founder - ex-Facebook and Stanford computer science, it seems.

It would take too long to refute them all, but just remember the HN readerships' view of YC is pretty distorted. ("it's all about VC money" , "it's just for ivy league grads" etc).

I could go on, but just read Paul Graham's essays - that's probably the best way to understand how YC thinks.

This site was close to spam on a mobile device.

I know it's not a like-for-like comparison, I am particularly curious about the price differentials though, AWS is often a premium.

Being part of both networks has been an interesting experience in culture.

YC culture fosters an extremely strong network of founders, even outside the bay area. In London we're constantly pinging each other for advice - it really helps.

Techstars does not have this and makes little effort to do this. I remember speaking to some Techstars people in London trying to see if they might Foster more of the community here, but they had no interest in it unfortunately.

It's a real shame because some Techstars programs with the right MDs had YC quality (Shoutout to Connor), it's just the quality wasn't distributed or cultivated uniformly. It's heavily dependent on the MD of the program.

I play a lot of games, but never got into fighting games.

Seeing the strategy "laid out" might be a useful way to understand the mechanics rather than figuring them out with trial and error.

Trial an error can be fun (e.g Zelda), but it's always been something that stopped me getting too far with this genre.

Preventing resale isn't so unusual, but having your property violated definitely is.

If you saw these terms for a console launch or graphics card launch, you wouldn't complain.

It's probably not enforceable, but the idea isn't crazy.

EDIT: I was referring to the resale clause. Just saw the remote deactivation point too, which really is awfully dystopian.