Hackernews posts about W21
W21 is a year class in Y Combinator's (YC) accelerator program, indicating that these are startups that were part of the Winter 2021 batch.
- Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection (www.realitydefender.com)
- YC Startups Use AI: Agents, OCR, and Prompt Engineering with Mercoa (YC W23) (www.aiengineering.report)
- W2000 boot from NVMe (xda-developers) (www.xda-developers.com)
- Windows Sandbox (W10 and W11) [video] for trying new software (www.youtube.com)
- Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers (www.fractionaljobs.io)
- How to avoid out-of-thin-air atomics without trying [pdf] (www.open-std.org)
- Random Tree Model of Meaningful Memory (journals.aps.org)
- Show HN: Gitego – Automatic Git identity switcher (github.com)
- High-performance RISC-V processors: UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, SpacemIT K3 (www.cnx-software.com)
- The $21.7B Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by Doge [pdf] (www.washingtonpost.com)
- Is economics education fit for the 21st century? (rethinkeconomics.org)
- Job Hunting for 21 Months (www.businessinsider.com)
- Virtual Power Plants: Reimagining the Grid for the 21st Century (www.utilitydive.com)
- Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds (insideclimatenews.org)
- Bringing Norway's 2k Lighthouses Into the 21st Century (www.nytimes.com)
- TimescaleDB 2.21 – 42× Faster DELETEs (www.tigerdata.com)
- A laid-off AccentJob hunting for 21 months. Recruiters said "too expensive..." (www.businessinsider.com)
- China's massive ADAS test: 36 cars, 15 hazard scenarios, 216 crashes (carnewschina.com)