Hacker News with Generative AI: Funding

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

56 points by Brysonbw 8 hours ago | 53 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

24 points by xbryanx 1 day ago | 1 comments

OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B (cnbc.com)

OpenAI, Funding, Artificial Intelligence, Valuation, Startups

51 points by rvz 2 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 3 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

106 points by jjmarr 3 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 5 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 6 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 7 days ago | 89 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 7 days ago | 16 comments

HHS Grants Terminated [pdf] (taggs.hhs.gov)

Government, Health, Funding

11 points by Anon84 8 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 8 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 8 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 9 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 9 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 9 days ago | 0 comments

'Sesame Street' faces uncertain future amid funding cuts and layoffs (nytimes.com)
Times are tough on Sesame Street.

Media, Children's Television, Funding, Layoffs

24 points by koolba 11 days ago | 16 comments

Netherlands launches fund to lure top scientists, like those fleeing the U.S. (nltimes.nl)
As political pressures and funding cuts drive some researchers out of the United States, the Netherlands is moving to position itself as a refuge for top scientific talent.

Science, Politics, Immigration, Funding, Netherlands

20 points by toomuchtodo 11 days ago | 6 comments

University of California orders hiring freeze, cuts (latimes.com)
Facing unprecedented threats by the Trump administration to slash medical and science research funding key to its mission as the nation’s premier public university system, the University of California announced on Wednesday a systemwide hiring freeze to stave off layoffs and downsizing.

Higher Education, Funding, Politics, California

7 points by strangeloops85 14 days ago | 2 comments

Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder's fund to make AI agents less bad (techcrunch.com)
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures.

Artificial Intelligence, Funding, Startups, AI Agents

13 points by rdegges 15 days ago | 3 comments

AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises Series B (techcrunch.com)
AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Funding, Startups

36 points by tomasreimers 15 days ago | 2 comments

mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr's crosshairs; funding in question (arstechnica.com)
Federal support for mRNA vaccine research appears in jeopardy after KFF Health News reported Sunday that officials at the National Institutes of Health have directed scientists to remove all references to the lifesaving technology from their grant applications.

Health, Science, Politics, Vaccines, Funding

21 points by magicalist 16 days ago | 1 comments

Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to fed funding cuts (apnews.com)
Reductions to federal support for research at universities and other institutions under President Donald Trump are dimming young scientists’ prospects, cutting off pathways to career-building projects and graduate programs.

Science, Education, Funding, Government, Career

11 points by zzzeek 17 days ago | 1 comments

Young scientists' career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funds cuts (phys.org)
Reductions to federal support for research at universities and other institutions under President Donald Trump are dimming young scientists' prospects, cutting off pathways to career-building projects and graduate programs.

Science, Education, Funding, Government

8 points by rntn 17 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google? (ycombinator.com)
How much would you and or your company be willing to fund Mozilla should it need to become independent of Google?

Mozilla, Funding, Google, Open Source, Technology

63 points by pabs3 22 days ago | 135 comments

Ask HN: How will uncertain tariff policies impact tech startups and funding? (ycombinator.com)
In what ways will tech startups (and the tech industry in general)? How has your startup been impacted?

Startups, Funding, Trade Policy, Technology

13 points by softwaredoug 22 days ago | 15 comments

U.S. Climate Aid Cuts to Leave Large Gap in Global Funding (e360.yale.edu)
The U.S. provides nearly a tenth of all climate finance globally, a well of funding that is at risk of drying up as the Trump administration takes aim at overseas spending.

Climate Change, International Relations, Politics, Funding, Environment

4 points by YaleE360 23 days ago | 0 comments

Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding (siliconangle.com)
Reflection AI Inc., a new startup led by former Google DeepMind researchers, launched today with $130 million in early-stage funding.

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Funding, Technology

38 points by t55 26 days ago | 26 comments

Anthropic's valuation triples to $61.5B in bumper AI funding round (ft.com)

Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, Funding, Valuation, Startups

20 points by marban 30 days ago | 26 comments

Ask HN: Who's Pre-seed Investing? (March 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are interested in "sliding in a cheque" to pre-seed founders with a MVP and pilot users.

Startups, Funding, Investing, Entrepreneurship

19 points by borgster 30 days ago | 1 comments

„Delivering what's needed to make Europe sovereign" (netzpolitik.org)
The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU. But that could soon come to an end.

Open Source, European Union, Software, Politics, Funding

5 points by doener 30 days ago | 0 comments