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Windsurf Gambit: How a $28M pivot became a $2.4B Google acquisition

I think startups are basically like getting slapped in the face probably over and over again," Varun Mohan told Y Combinator just months before Google paid $2.4B for his team. The weekend of July 11-12 proved that sometimes those slaps redirect you toward fortune.OpenAI's $3B Windsurf deal collapsed Friday. By Monday, Google had the founders.The backstory reveals fascinating startup dynamics:*The $28M Pivot (2022)*: Windsurf was crushing it in GPU virtualization - $2M revenue, 8 employ

Show HN: I made a JSFiddle-style playground to test and share prompts fast

I built this out of frustration as I lead the development of AI features at Yola.com.Prompt testing should be simple and straightforward. All I wanted was a simple way to test prompts with variables and jinja2 templates across different models, ideally somthing I could open during a call, run few tests, and share results with my team. But every tool I tried hit me with a clunky UI, required login and API keys, or forced a lengthy setup process.And that's not all.Then came the pricing. The l

Show HN: AGAI – A minimal, model-driven Go web framework

Hey HN,I’ve been building something quietly over the past few months, mostly to scratch an itch I kept running into while working on personal projects.It’s called AGAI — a small but growing web framework in Go.I love Go for its simplicity, but when it came to web dev, I kept bouncing between ultra-minimal router libraries and overly abstract frameworks. I just wanted something that gave me:Structure without ceremonyTemplating that’s flexible but not verboseSimple data components I can store in J

I may be beyond redemption

I am ashamed to even type all of this...again. I have had a few rants before on HN and reddit.It seems like I cannot improve or get better at all, I have been stuck literally doing nothing for a decade, like literally, I am not even kidding.My parents are great people, great is an understatement, I had a great upbringing, hard work and academics was always emphasized. I didn't do shit though, just daydreamed about it.I have been interested in tech for a looong time but I would just read abo

Ask HN: What should I work on/develop?

Hi, so recently I've been meaning to start a project, a personal project, but I'm not sure what to build/develop? All over the internet what I keep seeing are either very simple project, like some service with basic APIs, or really just some AI Agentic mumbo jumbo stuff that I completely am not interested in.What kind of projects are there that go 'in the middle' ? Or could maybe be useful and used, hell even monetized, what not?I'm tired of all this AI slop going a

Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

I'm in my 4th year living in Denmark as an expat, and I finally decided it’s time to properly learn Danish. I do have a Danish girlfriend, after all. One way I’ve been practicing is by trying to text only in Danish, but I often find myself stuck. I start my message in Danish, then hit a wall because I don’t know a word or how to fit something naturally into the sentence.Especially in those cases, I used to give up and translate the entire message from English, which kind of defeats the purp

Ask HN: Business logic that runs everywhere. Solo dev looking for feedback

I’m a solo developer building something called Variable Engine (VE) — a logic infrastructure layer that separates business rules from web code, so that users (not just devs) and the system can define and enforce real-time logic inside tools they don’t own.I have two working MVPs:1. Used on any website: VE enforces budget logic on Amazon.com right now (could be any web-based site). If you’re over your budget, the Buy button is blocked. If you're below your budget — or raise the budget — the

Ask HN: What's the best way to start with Ruby on rails?

I'm new to ruby and ruby on rails. Are there any devs here experience with both that could recommend a resource? A book, youtube series etc?<p>It would be really great if someone could recommend an overview of the language so I can get an idea of the syntax, and the syntax of your average rails app.<p>Finally I want to pair this with inertia.js. Has anyone done this in production? Does the combo work well?

Ask HN: What makes you keep coming back to Hacker News?

I've been active on GitHub and tried sharing my work on Twitter, but it often felt like shouting into the void. Memes get likes — but meaningful tools often don’t reach anyone.Then I rediscovered Hacker News. Even with a new account and a small project, the feedback was real. People cared, engaged, and it felt like being heard — not scrolled past.I realized that HN is more than a dev forum. It’s like a daily newspaper of thoughts and discoveries. Some users share research, others ask life q

Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX

I’ve been using AI to generate some repetitive frontend (guilty), and while most outputs felt vibe-coded, some results were surprisingly good. So I cleaned it up and made a ranking game out of it with friends, and you can check it out here: https://www.designarena.ai/vote/vote: Your prompt will be answered by four random, anonymous models. You pick the one you prefer and crown the winner, tournament-style./leaderboard: See the current winning models, as dictated by voter

Show HN: I hate buying shoes online so I built a service to fix that

Hi HN,Some friends and I have been working on and off on a service called GetSize (https://www.getsize.shoes) since 2019 and feel we finally have enough pieces in place to take it somewhere. We’re however uncertain about quality and would love your feedback on any and all aspects of it.The core insight is that pretty much everyone has returned shoes they bought online that didn’t fit well. There are 3d scanners in stores which are cool but that won’t help you at home, and AI photo apps

Show HN: I Built a Stick-On Wireless Lamp That Installs in 30 Seconds

Hi HN!I recently built a simple, rechargeable wall lamp that doesn't require any tools, wires, or drilling. It sticks to surfaces using adhesive pads, rotates 360°, and charges via USB-C. The goal was to make lighting *super minimal, renter-friendly, and easy to install*.The idea came from personal frustration — I live in a rented apartment where I can’t drill holes, and I wanted a modern-looking light I could reposition easily.I know this isn’t a software product, but I figured some of you

Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

Hey HN!This is Adil, Salman and Jose and and we’re behind archgw [1]. An intelligent proxy server designed as an edge and AI gateway for agents - one that natively know how to handle prompts, not just network traffic. We’ve made several sweeping changes so sharing the project again.A bit of background on why we’ve built this project. Building AI agent demos is easy, but to create something production-ready there is a lot of repeat low-level plumbing work that everyone is doing. You’re applying g

Is making the rust compiler slow a billion dollar mistake?

Just wondering if other folks feel growing dissatisfaction with the fact that the current leading modern system programming language does not include fast compilation as one of its fundamental design goals.To me -- this seems like an obvious candidate for a future 'billion dollar' mistake retrospective essay.How and why is it that 'support fast compilation' isn't a necessary pre-condition for any modern language hoping to achieve serious usage?With rust in particular --

Show HN: BGRemovePro – A fast background remover for AI-generated images

Hi HN!I built [BGRemovePro](https://www.bgremovepro.com), a super simple and fast background remover tool designed especially for AI-generated or stylized images, where traditional background removers often fail.As someone building and using AI image generation tools, I constantly ran into issues where auto background removal (especially on complex or artistic images) produced jagged results or deleted parts of the subject. BGRemovePro is optimized to handle these kinds of images bette

Show HN: QueryBurst – SEO audits from your own GSC data (no scraping, no spying)

After nearly 3 decades in SEO (yes, really), I built QueryBurst, a tool that connects directly to your Google Search Console account and gives you actual insights, without the usual mess of keyword scraping, competitor spying, or bloated dashboards.Why I built itI got tired of the usual workflow:- Exporting GSC data into spreadsheets or Looker Studio- Merging with crawl data or running manual audits- Writing prompts by hand for LLMs- Fighting the API’s limits, sampling, and UI quirks- Trying to

2039.js – The web framework that runs in the future (literally)

Everything works. You just can’t see it. You came too early. It is running. It is just running in 2039.2039.js is a fully quantum-aligned, emotion-routed, consciousness-synced web framework designed for realities not yet accessible in your temporal dimension.It introduces bleeding-edge technologies such as:- `useBrainWaveSync()` – hooks into your local consciousness stream - `syncReality()` – syncs with multiversal device IDs - `<ZalgoButton>` – renders emotional chaos in stable mode

Show HN: A Lisp for code generation and metaprogramming in non-Lisp languages

Antilisp is a Lisp designed for code generation in non-lisp languages. The interpreter is written in RPython, and the language is designed for easy adoption by non-lispers. The project is still young, but the language can be played with if you don't mind missing some important features like modules and pattern matching.I have not published the source code yet, because I am not completely sure how to base a sustainable business on this project and I don't want to risk having to rugpull

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