The Equity Equation (paulgraham.com)
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chrisvalleybay Jan 1, 2025 | on: Happy New Year 2025 | context

Thank you for the Putnam; I did not know about it. For anyone else that did not understand this reference; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015. Legendary.

babul Aug 9, 2008 | on: What were you doing during the first dot boom? | context

Reading old threads like that (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015) is actually very interesting as there is so much great insight in them, especially for newcomers. It is even better given we now have hindsight to aid us.

Even the YC flame-wars and trainwrecks are on another level compared to the rest of the internet in general.

Grosvenor May 23, 2026 | on: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on… | context
hirvi74 Aug 19, 2026 | on: A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II,… | context

It's definitely up there. However, I really do enjoy the post linked below solely because of one particular comment chain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015#35079

wensing Apr 16, 2009 | on: Ask HN: How much equity do you give to employees? | context

Have you seen http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015 and PG's article? I found it helpful, YMMV.