Paul Graham

Y Combinator co-founder, essayist on startups, writing, and thinking. Plain HTML, no images, no ads — just argument.

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Recent articles

Programming Bottom-Up

Beating the Averages

Java's Cover

Being Popular

Five Questions about Language Design

The Other Road Ahead

What Made Lisp Different

Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented

Taste for Makers

Succinctness is Power

Revenge of the Nerds

A Plan for Spam

Design and Research

Better Bayesian Filtering

Why Nerds are Unpopular

The Hundred-Year Language

If Lisp is So Great

Hackers and Painters

Filters that Fight Back

What You Can't Say

The Word "Hacker"

How to Make Wealth

Mind the Gap

Great Hackers

The Python Paradox

The Age of the Essay

What the Bubble Got Right

A Version 1.0

Bradley's Ghost

It's Charisma, Stupid