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Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel
Operator research preview
Operator research preview
Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
Hello HN,<p>I'm Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We're an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141</a><p>Today, I sold the company to a private equity firm for $200mn.<p>It's covered on TechCrunch: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/everstone-acquires-bootstrapped-indian-startup-wingify-for-200m/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/everstone-acquires-bootstr...</a><p>I was a 22 year old fresh graduate when I launched VWO on HN and got initial users. Feedback from people like @patio11 helped me get to PMF. And now, 15 years later, "site:ycombinator.com" is what I appended when I wanted to search for advice on what to keep in mind while selling my company.<p>Thank you HN for sharing inspiration and wisdom all along. I honestly don't think I would have been an entrepreneur had it not been for hacker news.<p>Every single day, HN is the first website I open! I'm feeling very grateful towards the community. Thanks @dang, and thank you Paul Graham for your essays and for creating this beautiful corner of the internet!
Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
Hello HN,<p>I'm Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We're an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141</a><p>Today, I sold the company to a private equity firm for $200mn.<p>It's covered on TechCrunch: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/everstone-acquires-bootstrapped-indian-startup-wingify-for-200m/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/everstone-acquires-bootstr...</a><p>I was a 22 year old fresh graduate when I launched VWO on HN and got initial users. Feedback from people like @patio11 helped me get to PMF. And now, 15 years later, "site:ycombinator.com" is what I appended when I wanted to search for advice on what to keep in mind while selling my company.<p>Thank you HN for sharing inspiration and wisdom all along. I honestly don't think I would have been an entrepreneur had it not been for hacker news.<p>Every single day, HN is the first website I open! I'm feeling very grateful towards the community. Thanks @dang, and thank you Paul Graham for your essays and for creating this beautiful corner of the internet!
My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations
TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
I mean anything in the 0.5B-3B range that's available on Ollama (for example). Have you built any cool tooling that uses these models as part of your work flow?
Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
Hello! I'm Byran. I spent the past ~6 months engineering a laptop from scratch. It's fully open-source on GH at: <a href="https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop">https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop</a>
Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
Hello! I'm Byran. I spent the past ~6 months engineering a laptop from scratch. It's fully open-source on GH at: <a href="https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop">https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop</a>
Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
Hello! I'm Byran. I spent the past ~6 months engineering a laptop from scratch. It's fully open-source on GH at: <a href="https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop">https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop</a>
Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation