#ycombinator

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Really cool to see WordPress on Hacker News today. 🤠

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YC-backed AI Startup Pivot Robots Raises Funding from NuVentures

NuVentures, an early-stage investor, has successfully provided capital to Pivot Robots, an AI-driven automation firm. The funding support demonstrates NuVentures’ continued dedication to funding AI-first businesses. Pivot Robots’ position in the market was further strengthened by the participation of Y Combinator and a US-based fund in this most recent fundraising round.

Founders and Background

Siddharth Girdhar and Vignesh Rajmohan, both graduates of Carnegie Mellon University, founded Pivot Robots last year. The two founders have extensive backgrounds working for well-known internet businesses like as Meta, Google, and Uber, which gives them a wealth of experience. Pivot Robots’ inventive solutions for the industrial industry have been greatly influenced by their profound knowledge of robotics and artificial intelligence.

Technology and Innovation

Pivot Robots automates industrial robots with advanced AI vision control software, focusing on the dangerous and labor-intensive activities that are common in the manufacturing sector. With the US industrial industry struggling with a labour crisis, their first solution addresses a critical need by automating the grinding of metal parts.

“Pivot Robots is developing software to assist manufacturers in automating some of their most labor-intensive and dangerous tasks, starting with the castings industry,” said co-founder Siddharth Girdhar. We are excited to work with NuVentures as a partner since they provide us with crucial assistance in finding talent and acquiring customers in the US and India, two important manufacturing hubs.

Stay tuned with Atom News for more updates on innovative startups, AI advancements, and industry-changing technologies.

[chrissylynnstudio]

ecomm images for custom tailor company #MTailor.

[physticuffs]

i want a more collaborative job where i work with more people and i'm really starting to resent how, after i tell people that, the career advice in my social group fits the form "quit your job and do the maximum-self-directed thing by yourself." i feel like people sort of don't believe that i'm fine with always having a boss/working for someone else for my entire career.

[collapsedsquid]

Using generative AI to create motivational slogans we can broadcast from loudspeakers 24/7 in California encampments.

[essential-randomness]

I'm at the bsky hackathon at the SF YCombinator offices studying their paper, and a) I'm getting a bunch of ideas to prototype b) I have a might need to make my Yaoi Combinator joke to someone

[azspot]

So, let's review. In the last week, OpenAI has repeatedly lied about a voice product, dissolved its AI safety team, and had two major players in the company resign — one of whom tried to oust Sam Altman late last year, and the other who clearly despises the direction of the company. And unlike Sam Altman, both Sutskever and Leike are actual computer scientists that build things versus specious hype men who people have been trying to fire for a decade. Seriously, staff went to the board to get him fired from his first company twice, Paul Graham personally flew into San Francisco to fire him from yCombinator, and he was so dramatically fired from OpenAI that he had to run crying to venture capitalist Reid Hoffman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to make him CEO again and install the Avengers of Capitalism as the new board.

Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit

[houseofbrat]

I see the critiques of Kamala Harris' closeness with the billionaires is already becoming an issue.

Elizabeth Warren:

This appearance was followed by reporting that there’s a Silicon Valley fundraising tour for Harris being planned by none other than… Reid Hoffman. Ok, so it’s pretty stunning for an oligarch like Hoffman, with a net worth of a couple billion dollars, to publicly make such a demand. So why is he doing it? One reason is that there’s a lot of money involved. As the Lever reported, Hoffman is on the board of Microsoft, which is right now being sued and investigated by the FTC. It’s a pretty good gig, if you get to fire the law enforcer investigating your misdeeds. Still, there’s another reason. Hoffman is a sophisticated operator who wants to be a kingmaker in politics. The money is real enough, but he’s likely leaking the fundraising tour as a means of forcing Harris to be seen to do his bidding. Hoffman wants Harris to get rid of Biden policies which protect workers through trade and antitrust so that big business can do what they want. And he’s going to supply the financing for Harris’ campaign if she does what she’s told. [...] An anonymous secondhand conversation with a donor isn’t great evidence for Harris’ policy instincts. But one possibility is that the Harris campaign set up these reporters with sources, and is trying to imply that she’s open to the demands of executives so that she can collect more campaign money from billionaires and dealmakers. There are other possibilities as well. So far, Hoffman’s demand has been met with disinterest from the political press and a muted response from labor and progressive groups, who have mostly endorsed Harris and are enthusiastically celebrating her candidacy. There are a few exceptions. Senator Bernie Sanders chimed in angrily about Hoffman’s demand, and Senator Elizabeth Warren offered an endorsement of Khan. A pharmacist group also weighed in, and there will likely be more statements as the news filters through a very confused media environment, as Khan has a lot of fans (including in tech, she’s speaking at YCombinator today to a packed room).

So...are we going to get a Vhagar moment from Bernie soon?

[hiddendip]

had an interesting dream last night.. where i basically shipped myself in a modified shipping container. also something about forklifts?

now i'm thinking, could you do it? like, take a 40ft container and make a sort of "tiny house" thing inside of it, then get it shipped overseas with you in it?

i'm 99% sure there's some legal stuff stopping you from doing it, and no shipping company would want to take on the liability, but like.. is it abstractly possible?

next ycombinator batch someone is going to get funding for a modular "pod" cruise ship and it's going to be my fault

[macwantspeace]

[image from Big Mac Tourism Bureau]

The comedian Emo Philips has a well-known joke about religion that may explain some of the decline in membership...

"Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over."

[story found on ycombinator/hacker news] btw - Emo Philips had a breathless style with random high stressed voice and twitchy gestures like a nervous kid trying to tell a very important story.

[collapsedsquid]

Before co-founding Gladstone with Beall, the Harris brothers ran an AI company that went through YCombinator, the famed Silicon Valley incubator, at the time when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was at the helm. The pair brandish these credentials as evidence they have the industry’s interests at heart, even as their recommendations, if implemented, would upend it. “Move fast and break things, we love that philosophy, we grew up with that philosophy,” Jeremie tells TIME. But the credo, he says, ceases to apply when the potential downside of your actions is so massive. “Our default trajectory right now,” he says, “seems very much on course to create systems that are powerful enough that they either can be weaponized catastrophically, or fail to be controlled.” He adds: “One of the worst-case scenarios is you get a catastrophic event that completely shuts down AI research for everybody, and we don't get to reap the incredible benefits of this technology.”

OK what Trashfuture bullshit is this company by the the AI risk consultancy people going to be..

Really???? That is your "AI company???"

[spinnrblog]

Vengo AI just launched Trendlyzer — and it’s a game-changer.

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No fluff. Just the info that matters.

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@ProductHunt @IndieHackers @TechCrunch @YCombinator @HubSpot @OpenAI @Jasper_ai @ChartMogul @Mixpanel @Segment

[vengoai]

Vengo AI just launched Trendlyzer — and it’s a game-changer.

Upload your customer data and get a gorgeous PDF report filled with trends, themes, and insights… all generated by AI.

No fluff. Just the info that matters.

📊 Explore it here → https://trendlyzer.com/

@ProductHunt @IndieHackers @TechCrunch @YCombinator @HubSpot @OpenAI @Jasper_ai @ChartMogul @Mixpanel @Segment

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I remember reading an interview with a British author, it might have been Neil Gaiman. He was just about to get his first book published in the US, and the American publisher contacted him and asked if it was OK if they changed a couple of British words to American, like "flat" to "apartment". Not wanting to risk the publishing deal, they said sure. A couple of month later they got the first edition of the US version back and found lines like.

"He looked out over the apartment landscape"

and

"'Come with me', he said apartmently"

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@neil-gaiman did that actually happen to you? Pretty funny nevertheless

[the-game-day]

Axiom Crypto: Y Combinator's Backing - Legit or Hype? Discover Axiom's exciting backing by Y Combinator! We dive into the platform, highlighting its connection to one of the most reputable startup incubators. Learn why this partnership is a significant advantage in the world of cryptocurrency and digital finance. Get the insights now! #AxiomCrypto #YCombinator #StartupIncubator #Cryptocurrency #DigitalFinance #Blockchain #Investment #VentureCapital #TechStartups #CryptoNews via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1w-QTTAG3I

[azspot]

Indeed, when Vance praised Khan, it was at an event called “Remedy Fest” put on by a tech incubator called YCombinator, and oriented around the question of how to break up Google if the corporation was found to be acting unlawfully. To have a prominent 39 year-old Republican Senator show up at a conference whose sole focus is thinking through what a post-Google dominant internet would look like is a big political statement about what the younger faction of the right might look like.

Can J.D. Vance's Populist Crusade Succeed?