Hacker News with Generative AI: Funding

Ask HN: I am at a loss. What shall I do? (ycombinator.com)
I started a startup about 1.5 years ago and raised about $100k. However, most of that is spent on ads, travel and meeting with accelerator mandatory workshops. I have $50k in bank now. I am not drawing salary and living on my savings at this point.
Startup Advice, Funding, Entrepreneurship
26 points by bloomtowns 1 day ago | 22 comments
US Science Agency NIH Says It Will Cut Funding to Researchers Who Protest Israel (gizmodo.com)
Under the Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health has announced a new policy that allows it to cut off funding to any medical researcher who engages in a political protest of Israel.
Politics, Israel, Science, Funding, US Government
6 points by rntn 3 days ago | 1 comments
Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet (nlnet.nl)
42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet
Open Source, Internet, Funding
466 points by edent 3 days ago | 223 comments
Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation (yahoo.com)
Funding, Startups, Valuation, SaaS
340 points by baristaGeek 4 days ago | 337 comments
Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive (msn.com)
Elon Musk's DOGE has cut finding to the American nonprofit Internet Archive, which was busy archiving websites targeted by Trump.
Elon Musk, Internet Archive, Nonprofit Organizations, Funding, Censorship
39 points by stasa 6 days ago | 6 comments
Trump team freezes new NSF awards – and could soon axe grants (nature.com)
All new research grants have been frozen at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) — an action apparently ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to cut spending and workers across the US government.
Politics, Science, Funding, Government
11 points by rntn 8 days ago | 1 comments
Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2B for Harvard (cnn.com)
Politics, Education, Funding
44 points by xnhbx 11 days ago | 8 comments
One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy (nbcnews.com)
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research.
Alzheimer's Disease, Research, Funding, Science, Health
27 points by KittenInABox 12 days ago | 0 comments
Mira Murati's reported $2B 'seed' funding suggests the AI boom is alive and well (fortune.com)
Mira Murati’s reported $2 billion ‘seed’ funding suggests the AI boom is alive and well, even after a week of economic chaos
Artificial Intelligence, Funding, Business, Economy
9 points by Brajeshwar 15 days ago | 1 comments
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research – in charts (nature.com)
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
Politics, Science, Funding, Research, United States
13 points by pmags 15 days ago | 0 comments
Oxford researchers awarded ARIA funding to develop safety-first AI (ox.ac.uk)
University of Oxford researchers are leading two major projects as part of the UK Government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) Safeguarded AI programme.
Artificial Intelligence, Research, University, Funding, UK
3 points by gnabgib 16 days ago | 0 comments
Incident.io Raises $62M (incident.io)
Today’s a huge milestone for us at incident.io. We’ve raised $62M in Series B funding with over $96M in total, to pioneer a new era of AI-powered incident management.
Funding, Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Incident Management
13 points by louis-paul 16 days ago | 1 comments
Trump Administration Freezes $1B for Cornell and $790M for Northwestern (nytimes.com)
The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell and $790 million for Northwestern amid civil rights investigations into both schools, two U.S. officials said.
Politics, Education, Funding, Civil Rights
20 points by Teever 17 days ago | 5 comments
NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half (nature.com)
Science, Funding, Education, Research
14 points by pmags 17 days ago | 2 comments
Tailscale has raised $160M (tailscale.com)
Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital. Existing angel investor George Kurtz - CEO of Crowdstrike is also included in this round, as well as Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace, who joins as a new investor for Series C.
Funding, Startups, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing
659 points by louis-paul 18 days ago | 332 comments
Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects? (ycombinator.com)
How would one go about being a 'rogue' OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?
Open Source, Software Development, Career, Financial Independence, Funding
88 points by Brysonbw 24 days ago | 68 comments
The Doge Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums (wired.com)
The Trump administration, working in coordination with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.
Politics, Libraries, Museums, Funding
25 points by xbryanx 24 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B (cnbc.com)
OpenAI, Funding, Artificial Intelligence, Valuation, Startups
52 points by rvz 25 days ago | 12 comments
Temporal Raises $146M Series C to Power the Future of Durable Applications (temporal.io)
Temporal, Funding, Series C, Software, Startups
18 points by kodablah 26 days ago | 1 comments
Oka.wiki (oka.wiki)
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. We do so by providing monthly stipends to full-time contributors and translators.
Wikipedia, Non-profit, Open Source, Translation, Funding
107 points by jjmarr 26 days ago | 32 comments
US scientists lost $3B in NIH grants since Trump took office (arstechnica.com)
Since Trump took office on January 20, research funding from the National Institutes of Health has plummeted by more than $3 billion compared with the pace of funding in 2024, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
Science, Government, Funding, Politics, Research
9 points by pmags 28 days ago | 0 comments
US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, mental health care (npr.org)
State and county public health departments and nonprofit groups are reeling after the Trump administration announced abrupt cancellation and revocation of roughly $11.4 billion in COVID-era funding for grants linked to addiction, mental health and other programs.
Health, Government, Funding, Addiction, Mental Health
61 points by 6stringmerc 29 days ago | 43 comments
What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute? (chalmermagne.com)
The UK’s national AI institute is in crisis. Despite receiving a fresh £100 million funding settlement in 2024, the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) is gearing up for mass redundancies and to cut a quarter of its research projects. Staff are in open revolt.
Artificial Intelligence, United Kingdom, Research, Funding, Crisis
86 points by alexicon 30 days ago | 90 comments
OpenAI Close to Finalizing Its $40B SoftBank-Led Funding (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI is close to finalizing a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp. — with investors including Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Altimeter Capital Management in talks to participate, according to people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI, Funding, Investment, Venture Capital, Technology
17 points by saeedjabbar 30 days ago | 16 comments
HHS Grants Terminated [pdf] (taggs.hhs.gov)
Government, Health, Funding
11 points by Anon84 31 days ago | 5 comments
OTF,which backs Tor,Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save funding from Trump cuts (theregister.com)
An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access.
Internet Security, Politics, Funding, Lawsuits
9 points by croes 32 days ago | 0 comments
$3.55M in US Government funding for Mozilla's programs has been canceled (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Mozilla, Funding, Government, Technology
9 points by Garbage 32 days ago | 1 comments
Marginalia Search receives second nlnet grant (marginalia.nu)
I’m happy and grateful to announce that the Marginalia Search project has been accepted for a second nlnet grant.
Funding, Research, Open Source, Non-Profit Organizations
74 points by marginalia_nu 32 days ago | 8 comments
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt etc., sues to save funding from Trump cuts (theregister.com)
An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access.
Politics, Cybersecurity, Nonprofits, Funding, Lawsuits
14 points by defrost 32 days ago | 0 comments
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change (propublica.org)
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
Climate Change, Health, Science, Funding, Government
9 points by hn_acker 32 days ago | 0 comments