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The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (Sophia Cai/Politico)
Sophia Cai / Politico : The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight …
Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE
American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. NOX METALS (YC S25) is the supply c…
Geometry-Aware MCTS for Extremal Problems in Combinatorial Geometry
arXiv:2606.26399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study certain extremal problems in combinatorial geometry that ask about configurations of points in an $n \times n$ grid that sa…
Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
Genuine question. Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces…
How This 2-Person Y-combinator backed Team Built "AWS for AI Agents" - $500k raised - Tech breakdown
Hey I'm Omkar yoooo Owner of FounderDeepDives and I'm doing a series where we introduce YC backed...…
Humans have disproved the sum-product conjectures for real numbers
We disprove the sum-product conjecture for real numbers by constructing arbitrarily large $A\subset \mathbb{R}$ (whose elements are algebraic integers in a number field of degree $…
Solving Combinatorial Counting Problems with Weighted First-Order Model Counting
Combinatorial counting problems pervade artificial intelligence, statistics, and discrete mathematics. Whether the task is enumerating subsets, multisets, permutations, partitions,…
Track YC Demo Day Companies in Real Time (with code)
YC Demo Day publishes ~250 companies in 6 hours. Here's how to scrape, filter, and prioritize them in under 100 lines of Python — before the rest of the market sees them.…
An explicit lower bound for the unit distance problem
We show that there are sets of $n$ points in the plane with $n$ arbitrarily large that contain more than $n^{1.014}$ pairs of points separated by a distance exactly $1$. This impro…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s ‘mic drop’ offer to Y combinator startups: Free AI tokens worth $2 million in exc - The Times of India
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OpenAI offers $2M in API tokens to every Y Combinator startup for equity
OpenAI offers $2M in API credits to each of the 169 Y Combinator startups for equity via uncapped SAFEs, totaling $338M in a compute-for-equity play.…
Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup - TechCrunch
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Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup
Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.…
Projecting Latent RL Actions: Towards Generalizable and Scalable Graph Combinatorial Optimization
Graph combinatorial optimization (GCO) has attracted growing interest, as many NP-hard problems naturally admit graph formulations, yet their combinatorial explosion renders exact …
Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment
Interactive social media site Status announced Tuesday $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding, with investors including General Catalyst, YC, LightShed Ventures, and Abs…
Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
Stilta announced Tuesday a $10 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round include YC and operators from companies like OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable.…
Memory-Guided Tree Search with Cross-Branch Knowledge Transfer for LLM Solver Synthesis
Combinatorial optimization (CO) underlies decision-making from logistics to chip design, where infeasible solutions are operationally unusable and small quality gains translate int…