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Y Combinator-backed startup Cua, which builds infrastructure for AI computer-use agents, is hiring its first Founding Technical Go-To-Market Lead. The company is seeking a deeply technical sales leader to define its commercial strategy, engage with AI labs, and drive the adoption of its Cua Driver framework. This foundational role will involve owning the full sales cycle and shaping the go-to-market motion for the startup's emerging agent products.

AgentsDock is a new self-hosted workspace designed specifically for agentic AI research. It serves as a centralized IDE for managing AI tools like Claude Code and Codex, offering features such as persistent chats, scheduled jobs, and integrated terminals.

Google is set to purchase half of the electricity generated by a nuclear power plant to support its growing energy needs. The US tech giant also announced that the associated €13 billion data center project will create tens of thousands of jobs.

Y Combinator W26 startup Opalite Health is hiring its founding Go-To-Market leader to build an enterprise sales motion for its real-time medical interpretation platform. The physician-led team is seeking a candidate with at least two years of sales experience to own the full sales cycle into hospitals and health systems from the ground up. This early-stage role offers a $70,000 base salary, uncapped commission, and equity.

Y Combinator F24 startup Attimet is hiring engineering and research staff to build LLM-powered agent harnesses and AI infrastructure at its on-site San Francisco office. The roles require candidates to take end-to-end ownership of projects aimed at accelerating the company's research and experimentation capabilities. Ideal applicants should possess strong technical backgrounds in AI systems and a high degree of autonomous initiative.

Bild AI, a startup in the Y Combinator Winter 2025 cohort, is expanding its technical team. The company is actively recruiting product and AI engineers to support its ongoing development and growth.

Y Combinator-backed AI primary care startup Clara is hiring a growth engineer to scale patient acquisition and retention for its AI doctors. The San Francisco-based role requires full-stack expertise to own the entire user funnel, from building programmatic landing pages to managing lifecycle messaging and product analytics. Candidates will work directly with founders to ship code that impacts real patient health outcomes while ensuring all growth experiments remain HIPAA-compliant.

A recent report reveals that the CIA helped keep Steve Jobs' NeXT Computer financially afloat in the 1980s by purchasing its hardware for agency use. Reader discussions clarify that this was a straightforward procurement rather than a covert backdoor operation, contrasting the news with actual historical CIA covert funding like the secret ownership of the Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG.

Y Combinator-backed startup Sixtyfour is hiring junior and early-career engineers to build AI agents for open-source intelligence and deep web research. The in-person San Francisco roles focus on designing scalable systems that transform basic inputs like names or emails into verified profiles of people and companies. Candidates will work across the stack to develop LLM reasoning, evaluate model accuracy, and build high-throughput data pipelines.

YC W26 startup Voltair is hiring a Flight Test Engineer to help scale its distributed network of long-range drones designed for earth observation and power utility inspections. As the company's seventh full-time employee, the new hire will take over flight testing from the CEO and deploy the drones for enterprise clients in a hybrid hardware engineering and field operations role.

YC-backed startup Reflex is hiring for Growth and Go-To-Market roles to build its first formalized revenue engine from the ground up. Despite strong product-market signals including over a million apps built and significant GitHub traction, the company needs a technical leader to transition from founder-led sales to a scalable pipeline. The ideal candidate will combine software engineering experience with hands-on GTM strategy to convert open-source adoption into enterprise revenue.

Before the rise of digital job boards and professional networking platforms, newspaper classifieds served as the primary gateway to employment. This retrospective piece explores the traditional job hunting process, highlighting the stark contrast between nostalgic print-based methods and today's tech-driven recruitment landscape.

The publication The Consensus has reached its six-month milestone, having indexed 20,000 jobs and 350,000 articles while publishing 28 pieces from six authors. Its latest update also introduces enhanced reader features, including comments, gift links, dynamic RSS feeds, and email alerts.

YC-backed startup truemetrics, which uses smartphone technology to optimize last-mile delivery routing, is hiring a Go-To-Market Lead in Berlin to help scale its core enterprise business and discover new product opportunities. The profitable company is seeking an autonomous commercial leader to work directly with the founders as it aims to grow its annual recurring revenue from €1.5M to over €10M.

AI infrastructure startup Morph, a YC S23 company, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff to optimize its inference stack for open models. The performance engineer will work directly with founders to improve system speed, cost-efficiency, and reliability by optimizing everything from individual GPU kernels to distributed execution. Ideal candidates will possess deep expertise in GPU performance and complex production systems to help scale frontier-level model serving.

YC-backed email platform Loops is hiring a US-based Product Educator on a contract-to-hire basis to develop technical content, video tutorials, and educational documentation. The remote role requires at least one year of experience in product marketing or technical content creation to help customers maximize the platform's lifecycle email features.

Y Combinator batch S26 startup Rise Reforming is hiring a Senior Chemical Process Engineer to lead the scaling of its catalytic technologies from pilot to commercial production. The in-person Chicago area position requires expertise in pilot plant operations and gas-to-liquids processes, offering a base salary of over $125,000 plus equity. This role provides a direct career path to become the company's VP of Engineering or Chief Engineer as the startup expands.

YC W25 startup SalesPatriot is building an AI-native platform to automate and modernize legacy defense, aerospace, and industrial supply chain operations. The company, which has raised over $10 million and processes $50 million weekly, is hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineers to relocate to San Francisco and work directly onsite with clients to implement and scale the technology.

In a discussion thanking Hacker News for its 15 years of support, users are sharing how the platform has profoundly shaped their personal and professional lives. Commenters highlight how connections made through the site and the associated Recurse Center led to lifelong friendships and dream jobs at companies like DuckDuckGo. The thread also reflects on the enduring value of the community's supportive environment and its unique social guidelines.

Kaiser Permanente nurses handling triage calls warn that the increasing use of AI and workplace surveillance is negatively impacting both their working conditions and patient care. The healthcare workers argue that these technologies threaten their fundamental duty of care by prioritizing corporate metrics over patient well-being.