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American startup accelerator
Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm and the operator of Hacker News. Based in San Francisco, California, YC has invested in more than 5,000 companies since its founding in 2005. Companies that have participated in YC include Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, GOAT, Instacart, Reddit, Rippling, Scale AI, Stripe, and Twitch. OpenAI was founded as an initiative of YC’s nonprofit research arm. As of 2019, more than 400 YC companies were worth more than $100M, and 100 were unicorns. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Y CombinatorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Combinator-Based Fixpoint Algorithms for Big-Step Abstract InterpretersInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: SapiensThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Combinator – a computer-based tool for creative idea generation based on a simulation approachCited 68 times
- Go sideways: List of Y Combinator startupsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Sam AltmanA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Combinator – a computer-based tool for creative idea generation based on a simulation approach
Cache behavior of combinator graph reduction
The transient combinator, higher-order strategies, and the distributed data problem
Combinator Parsers: From Toys to Tools
Efficient combinator code
Power management and optimization of marine hybrid propulsion systems: A combinator surface methodology
The Combinator S
Adapting combinator and SECD machines to display snapshots of functional computations
🆕 Influential since 2022
Combinator-Based Fixpoint Algorithms for Big-Step Abstract Interpreters
Novel combinator surface concept for efficiency optimization of ship propulsion system
The Fixpoint Combinator in Combinatory Logic – A Step towards Autonomous Real-time Testing of Software?
byteparsing: a functional parser combinator for mixed ASCII/binary data
Combinator lexicography – theoretical and practical basis of linduistics
📚 Books worth reading
SapiensYuval Noah Harari · 2011
Plum IslandNelson DeMille · 1997
The Ocean at the End of the LaneNeil Gaiman · 2013
The GoldfinchDonna Tartt, Katia Benovich · 2013
I am MalalaMalala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb · 2012
The Hard WayLee Child · 2006
ההיסטוריה של המחרYuval Noah Harari · 2015
The Casual VacancyJ. K. Rowling, Tom Hollander · 2012
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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