Nope! From yesterday:

Launch HN: Synnax (YC S24) – Unified hardware control and sensor data streaming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227369 - Aug 2024 (23 comments)

also recent:

Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194673 - Aug 2024 (140 comments)

Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173330 - Aug 2024 (88 comments)

Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163382 - Aug 2024 (618 comments)

That's 4 of the 8 most recent Launch HNs btw. But it's true that there are reams of AI startups nowadays.

The problem for me is that all of them look more of the same. I have a feeling of dejavu every time I see a Show HN of an AI generator, AI nocode, AI supabase, AI PDF scanner, AI monitoring startup.

I'm developing an "AI wrapper" myself and I know how difficult it is to create a reliable system using LLM integration and I guess these many similar projects are competing on being the one to create something that won't risk ruining their customers reputation. But I see no differentiation, no eye-catching tech, algorithm, invention.

YC and HN used to be the bastion of innovation in tech.

This year, nearly yes in "some way":

> This year, we’ll fund more than 500 companies out of 50,000 applications, and almost all of them are related to AI in some way.

Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/why-yc-went-to-dc/

(Edited to be more precise.)

Thanks! There are still a lot of amazing hardware companies and vertical applications in our YC batch.

We believe that AI is only one part of our product. A significant amount of value comes from building robust integrations with different data sources and managing the business logic that operates on top of this unstructured data.