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Hacker House

Fourteen Yale teams spent the summer of 2026 in one house in San Francisco, building.

The Hacker House on Hyde Street, a Yale flag hung from a second-floor window.Founders gathered around a laptop at the dining table.A whiteboard of architecture notes propped in the hallway beside someone working.
Photographs: The Wall Street Journal
14teams brought together in San Francisco for the first Yale Hacker House.
$17M+raised by five of those teams already — across biotechnology, robotics, spacetech, assistive technology, financial infrastructure, and AI-native legal systems.

The Wall Street Journal came to the house and wrote about what elite students are doing with their summers now.

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