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Contrary Research
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Contrary Research is the company blog at research.contrary.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2022, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “The American Missile Crisis”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Contrary Research publishes company research profiles, such as on Windsurf, Anthropic and SpaceX. HN commenters cite them as background on companies and deals. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Contrary Research brings you the latest analysis on the world's best private technology companies.
Most-linked posts?
- The American Missile Crisis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-28
What Hacker News says?
Bubble or not, given the exit, Windsurf's (Codeium) focus on enterprise sales motion has been rewarded rather handsomely: https://research.contrary.com/company/windsurf / mirror: https://archive.vn/ThWNz
Comment linking /company/windsurf
on “OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B”Submitted The American Missile Crisis as a story · 8 points
HN discussion"In 2021, Browder reported that DoNotPay had 250K subscribers; in May 2023, Browder said that DoNotPay had “well over 200,000 subscribers”. To date, DoNotPay has resolved over 2 million cases and offers over 200 use cases on its website. Though DoNotPay has not disclosed its revenue, it charges $36 every two months. Given this, it can be estimated that DoNotPay is generating $54 million in annual revenue, assuming t…
Comment linking /company/donotpay
on “DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says”Submitted Building an American TSMC as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis isn't even a theoretical concern and it goes well beyond unfettered control of a single company. Look at the history: 1. One of Elon's companies (Tesla) bought out another of Elon's companies (Solar City) that was going bankrupt because it owed a lot of money to yet another of Elon's companies (SpaceX) [1]; 2. Elon diverted $500M of NVidia H100 GPUs reserved for Tesla to xAI [2]; 3. Elon made a buyout agreement…
Comment linking /company/xai
on “We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued”Submitted AI Benchmarks: Climbing the Wrong Hills as a story · 3 points
HN discussion- nl · 2026-01-22
It's worth understanding the history of Anthropic. There's a lot of implied background that helps it make sense. To quote: > Founded by engineers who quit OpenAI due to tension over ethical and safety concerns, Anthropic has developed its own method to train and deploy “Constitutional AI”, or large language models (LLMs) with embedded values that can be controlled by humans. https://research.contrary.com/company/ant…
Comment linking /company/anthropic
on “Claude's New Constitution” Submitted Linktree: $1.3B valuation, 232 employees as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an AI-Native Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tecton Memo: building a feature platform for production ML applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Evolution of DevOps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The American Missile Crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why specialized AI systems may outperform general‑purpose models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Bank Unbundling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living Landscape: Fintech Infrastructure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Openness of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databricks vs. Snowflake – Deep Dive – Contrary Research as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ramp Memo – Contrary Research as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contrary Research: the stories of private companies and the ways they get built as a story · 1 points
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