Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents
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Hi HN, we're Ahnaf and Seungmin from Simantic (https://simantic.com). We are building the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware without hardware. Before Simantic, we were ex-firmware engineers at companies like Neuralink and Tesla. We’ve worked on some of the coolest projects, like the Cybertruck and Roadster, back when they were still early prototypes. We started working on firmware back when ChatGPT didn’t exist yet, but over the years, we saw how much…
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Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 87 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #14 of 30, reached on Oct 30, 03:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 13:37 UTC.
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Congrats on the launch! Seems like a great time this type of thing, with all the new robotics, chips, etc companies coming out I don't know too much about hardware simulation. How much of the simulation is deterministic, versus probabilistic or ML based?
Hi, First of all, congrats on the launch. I have worked with many such products and this is something that is required. There is no one solution fits all in this domain. Each vendor has their quirks that. So this is overall a great problem to tackle and kudos to you for taking this up. Could you elaborate a bit more…
Congrats on the launch, this is a great one!! I work on agent tooling on the software side, and the pattern you describe is exactly what we see there too. Generation got fast and cheap. Validation stayed slow and human. In software the review queue became the bottleneck. In firmware it sounds worse, because the queue…
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It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (87 checks) since.
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56 points and 16 comments; submitted by shong0504 on Oct 29, 2026.