Move Slow and Fix Things(endler.dev)
54 points by ahmedhossamdev | 0 comments
Matthias Endler's essay arguing against VC-funded hustle culture and for small, bootstrapped, sustainable businesses, critiquing Paul Graham's startup advice.
#paul-graham on Hacker News
18 stories tagged paul-graham, newest first.
I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch(twitter.com)
566 points by bilsbie | 645 comments
A Paul Graham post on X saying that at 17 he would learn to build LLMs from scratch rather than start a startup, with replies including Yann LeCun.
How to earn a billion dollars(paulgraham.com)
634 points by kingstoned | 1643 comments
Paul Graham essay, based on an Oxford Union talk, explaining how people become billionaires, chiefly by starting successful startups.
The Brand Age(paulgraham.com)
460 points by bigwheels | 352 comments
Paul Graham essay "The Brand Age" (March 2026), opening with the 1970s Swiss watch industry quartz crisis to discuss the role of brands.
The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News(refactoringenglish.com)
396 points by sharjeelsayed | 113 comments
An interactive leaderboard from Refactoring English ranking personal blog domains by their total Hacker News score, filterable by date range.
I Met Paul Graham Once(okayfail.com)
886 points by DamonHD | 547 comments
Personal essay by Phill Mendonça-Vieira recounting meeting Paul Graham at Y Combinator in 2015 and reflecting on feeling unsupported as a queer person in tech.
The Origins of Wokeness(paulgraham.com)
790 points by crbelaus | 1780 comments
Paul Graham's January 2025 essay tracing the origins of wokeness as a form of priggishness, rooted in 1980s political correctness.
Founder Mode(paulgraham.com)
1162 points by bifftastic | 662 comments
Paul Graham essay from September 2024 arguing founders should run growing companies differently from conventional manager-style advice, inspired by Brian Chesky's talk.
The Right Kind of Stubborn(paulgraham.com)
487 points by urs | 211 comments
Paul Graham's July 2024 essay distinguishing persistence from obstinacy and arguing they are different kinds of behavior.
I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened(twitter.com)
665 points by hakanderyal | 575 comments
A post by Paul Graham on X explaining the circumstances of Sam Altman leaving his role as Y Combinator president, disputing claims he was fired.
The Reddits(ycombinator.com)
395 points by sandslash | 672 comments
Y Combinator blog post by Paul Graham, published March 2024, recounting the story of Reddit's founders in YC's Founder Stories series.
How to Start Google(paulgraham.com)
624 points by harscoat | 593 comments
Paul Graham essay from a March 2024 talk to 14 and 15 year olds on how to prepare to start an ambitious startup like Google later.
Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law(amazingcto.com)
431 points by KingOfCoders | 415 comments
Blog post on Amazing CTO responding to Paul Graham, arguing that no law requires cookie banners and that they stem from sites' choice to track users.
Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor(washingtonpost.com)
897 points by CartyBoston | 680 comments
Washington Post article reporting that Sam Altman was pushed out of Y Combinator by mentor Paul Graham before his OpenAI ouster.
Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
340 points by nicgrev103 | 264 comments
Ask HN thread asking founders for examples of manual, unscalable work done early on, inspired by Paul Graham's essay 'Do Things That Don't Scale'.
If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you(twitter.com)
347 points by pg | 177 comments
Paul Graham tweet offering to fund an eye-tracking startup to build a better eye-controlled keyboard for a friend with ALS.
How to Do Great Work(paulgraham.com)
872 points by razin | 370 comments
Paul Graham's July 2023 essay offering a cross-field guide to doing great work, starting with choosing work that matches aptitude and deep interest.
When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think(twitter.com)
874 points by blueridge | 532 comments
Paul Graham Twitter thread observing people rapidly switching to ChatGPT for writing and warning that losing the ability to write erodes thinking.