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Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator

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  • Recommended by 7 people: 7 on Hacker News.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2012 to 2019.
  • Presented by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator
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Paul Graham discusses how to find startup ideas by looking at the present from the perspective of the future.

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What people say. Engineers recommend this talk for its profound impact on how to think about the world, ambition, and identifying future tech trends.

vonklauson Hacker News • Recommends

On “Jessica Livingston on the Accidental Origin of Y Combinator”

I find these stories helpful on a lot of levels, and they provide great insight into problem solving, technology, and you end up learning a large amount about why things are the way they are when people recount how they got started. E.g Anthony Casalena is young by non-tech standards and I still find it totally foreign that when he started squarespace he bought 2 physical dedicated servers and hooked them up in New York at pier 1 hosting, he needed to own the physical boxes and have 2 for redundancy. I am not doing a startup but have found these talks particular insightful generally. I am looking for some more Inspirational ones if anyone knows any great founders or leaders with inspirationa…
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anondonon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?”

link to this video This was the first time I watched pg give a talk. It was the talk that brought about the biggest change in the way I think about the world, my ambitions. The talk was the beginning, reading more about pg, I came across his essays and then HN.
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rahulchhabra07on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Who is “ahead of his/her time” nowadays?”

I always believed paulg was way ahead of his time. - LISP over C++/Java - The first ever web app in Viaweb - The first ever startup accelerator - Check this talk from 2012: link to this video a lot of today's most impressive cos Superhuman, Lambda School, Netflix happen to emerge mysteriously from the talk as is.
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andrew_simoneon Hacker News • Recommends

On “How App.net Can Change Everything”

I think much of the push back to App.net comes from not understanding the context in which Dalton et al. is building the platform. Frankly, it wasn't until Dalton linked to PG's write-up of his PyCon talk that I really began to understand what his intentions were. The write-up: link The video: link to this video
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laCouron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Why US Healthcare sucks and how I’m trying to change it”

For those that haven't seen or read Paul Graham's bit on ongoing diagnosis: link (#7) Or if you prefer to watch it from 2012's PyCon: link to this video
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yatoomyon Hacker News • Recommends

On “What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?”

…entering a competitive industry with a new product, facing a goliath and have a huge emphasis on their design & focus on developer. Which makes me believe history will repeat itself. That if we have the Apple for wearables, there should be, or soon, a Microsoft for wearables. Just a thought, would love any point for/against. For reference: link link to this video…
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on_on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip”

Yep. I like his talk at Pycon in 08, where he talks about building a better email client0 but it is also noted in your link. Thanks, I switched back from mobile and meant to post it. Incidentally, if anyone has seen his Pycon talk, one of his ideas is "Bring Back the Old More's Law", and if you are curious it is ~2-3 minutes here1. I have always been wondering what he means when he says a "sufficiently smart compiler is a byword for impossible" is this an AI reference or a deeper computer science theory that I am missing. Always been really curious. 0 link to this video 1 link to this video
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fnord123on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Founders' Accents”

I wonder if those with Tourette Syndrome( link to this video ) fit into 'accents'. While one can understand someone with Tourette Syndrome, it's very distracting to the discourse at hand.
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dineshp2on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet”

…likely remain a pipe dream. The OP also mentions reducing power differences as a long term solution. IMO, one of the best ways to do that would be to educate the masses about the mentioned problems and how it affects everyone involved. Once a sufficiently large population cares enough about the problems at hand, change should not be far away. 1 link to this video…
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jasodeon Hacker News • Mentions

On “What happened, Gmail?”

>Email was meant to be kept simple, ... instead of trying to come up with a new email, stop breaking the current one, and keep using it. The "email was meant to be kept simple" can't be stated in isolation. Many suffering recipients of email see the outside world stuffing their inbox as making "email complicated" . They can't control how others misuse email. Paul Graham explained that email has become overwhelming for him and his peers.1 What's your recommendation for their pain points with the current email system? 1 from 7m29s to 11m50s: link to this video
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frobisheron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Startup Ideas”

Reminds me of this video of Paul Graham, where he says that startup ideas like a beautiful woman to a nerd, "if you got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me"! see 3:00 onwards ish in video link to this video
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cbreynoldsonon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)”

did this idea spark from PG's old talk on new ideas link to this video ? One of them is literally "search engine for developers/hackers"
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ignoramouson Hacker News • Mentions

On “ChatGPT killer: Google-owned, UK-born AI startup Deepmind is working on a rival”

> You can tell they've tried to be conservative with the AI-driven "People Also Ask" feature which quotes a snippet of source text, and I still see completely wrong answers every so often. All well and good but that doesn't explain why it wasn't Google that came up with Copilot? Paul Graham predicted that a Google Search competitor would target hackers (a dinosaur egg he called it; and building Search in the image of Unix : "give you the right answers fast "), which is exactly how it is playing out with OpenAI + GitHub + Microsoft. link to this video / link to this video
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morphleon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision?”

I cool a wafer scale with a liquid that boils at 43 C and immersing the wafer in this liquid. The bubbles (cavitation) of the boiling liquid should not damage the surface layers of the wafer, of course. This boiling liquid is further cooled by water and a sonic heat pump moving the heat into a water tank where the stored heat is used for showers or cooking 1. Given 45 trillion transistors (45x10e12) times 3 femtojoule (3x10e-15) to switch each transistor at 1 Ghz (10e9) you get 1.000.000 joules/sec = 1 megawatt. These are ball-park numbers, back of the envelope calculations. In reality I make full physics simulations and electrical SPICE simulations of the entire wafer on a supercomputer a…
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