Hacker News Reader

Those are their sponsors. So I don't know if "no funding" is right. Also they directly list TUM (TU Munich) as sponsor.

http://hyperloop.warr.de/#sec_sponsor

I don't think that it's supposed to be read "no funding in general and no direct support from the university", but instead "the university offered them no funding or direct support"

Reply on news.ycombinator.com