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YC Turns 20 Tomorrow!

Y Combinator has helped create more than $800 billion in market value over 20 years. Thank you to Paul, Jessica, Trevor and Robert and Happy Birthday to the fixed point combinator that changed the world.

In PG's own words, this was how Y Combinator started: https://paulgraham.com/ycstart.html.

Vibe Coding is the Future

Andrej Karpathy recently coined the term “vibe coding” to describe how LLMs are getting so good that devs can simply “give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” We surveyed YC founders to get their take on how this new way of programming is changing how products are built.

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1. Mistral OCR (mistral.ai)
   1715 points by littlemerman | 412 comments


2. Repairable Flatpack Toaster (www.kaseyhou.com)
   834 points by t-3 | 262 comments


3. Tailscale is pretty useful (blog.6nok.org)
   795 points by marban | 400 comments


4. It is as if you were on your phone (pippinbarr.com)
   779 points by bookofjoe | 124 comments


5. Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think (usher.dev)
   776 points by tom_usher | 305 comments


6. My 16-month theanine self-experiment (dynomight.net)
   767 points by dynm | 416 comments


7. Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it (www.science.org)
   738 points by nabla9 | 447 comments


8. Why fastDOOM is fast (fabiensanglard.net)
   668 points by wicket | 219 comments


9. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions (www.autocar.co.uk)
   588 points by zfg | 366 comments


10. AI tools are spotting errors in research papers (www.nature.com)
    584 points by kgwgk | 208 comments


11. Succinct data structures (blog.startifact.com)
    571 points by pavel_lishin | 103 comments