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Fellow Hackers,

I am interested in the history of YC and started to look around for more stories and insights about how YC started and became what it is today.

There are some resources on the web [1,2] but I couldn't find too much.

As there are some alumni and employees from YC lurking around here, I just thought to ask you to share your stories!

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20140824071024/http://old.ycombinator.com/start.html 2: https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/

Dear HN community,

I am currently working on a redesign for a website that aims to communicate complex topics that build on a lot of science and research (sic., a website about effective altruism [1]). In this context, I was trying to think of inspiring examples that really communicate complex content well. Some examples that come to my mind are:

* Papers on Distill

  * https://distill.pub/2020/attribution-baselines/

* The key ideas section on 80,000hours.org

  * https://80000hours.org/key-ideas/

* Science videos on youtube from channels like kurzgesagt or beautiful science

  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk

  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ-6rFEM2o4

Do you have other inspiring examples of website or multimedia content that made you interested in and helped you understand a complex topic well?

1: see for example: effectivealtruism.org