Hacker News: dgudkov

New comment by dgudkov in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

dgudkov — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:19:38 +0000

> Place sounds like a total mess.

What big corp is not a total mess?

New comment by dgudkov in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

dgudkov — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:07:20 +0000

> Startups succeed or fail based on how much customers like the product.

This is in theory. In practice, a worse product with more money and louder marketing easily wins against a better product nobody knows about. I'm sure Paul perfectly understands it.

There are other idealizations I won't comment on, but the whole piece reads like an attempt to nurture an application pipeline for YC rather than the genuine writing I liked in earlier Paul's essays.

Here is an alternative point of view: get your degree and work for a few years. Then go back to university to learn business basics (finance, marketing, management). Start a company in your late 30s, when you know your subject area well and you have an idea how to steer finance/marketing (marketing is much harder that it might seem). Bootstrap or take as little investment as possible until you get PMF. Then scale up without giving away (much) equity.

It worked well for me. It can surely work well for others.

New comment by dgudkov in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

dgudkov — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:03:27 +0000

Australian beef is of worse quality. It should be cheaper.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/australian-beef-...

Size and Lifespan

dgudkov — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:53:06 +0000

Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3283/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281912

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by dgudkov in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

dgudkov — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:30:16 +0000

It looks like Europe no longer hates Elon. That didn't last long.

New comment by dgudkov in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

dgudkov — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:34:41 +0000

While the article doesn't talk much about it, but the math in it implies that most of the wealth will be transferred to the government in the form of inheritance taxes. So yes, the great wealth transfer. Just not in the direction everyone presumed.

New comment by dgudkov in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

dgudkov — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:06:53 +0000

The question remains without your implication.

New comment by dgudkov in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

dgudkov — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:37:34 +0000

What makes you think the same can't happen with Porkbun?

New comment by dgudkov in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

dgudkov — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:54:15 +0000

How about banning the most deceptive practice that is advertising prices without taxes?

New comment by dgudkov in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

dgudkov — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:28:23 +0000

Wait, not being able to make a picture of yourself is pretty draconian? In this case, the world before smartphones was a living Hell on Earth.

What does a 13-year-old see on Snapchat in a normal week?

dgudkov — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:22:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/snapchat-recommends-harmful-content-kids-brooke-istook-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840194

Points: 62

# Comments: 18

New comment by dgudkov in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

dgudkov — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:26:52 +0000

> And jet engines do not have any lower-tier market with underserved demand

They actually do. The segment of small jet-powered (military) drones is rapidly growing and isn't served by the big jet engine manufacturers.

New comment by dgudkov in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

dgudkov — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:00:33 +0000

Good point. I've found their website: https://www.x402.org/

New comment by dgudkov in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

dgudkov — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:10:28 +0000

We need standards and protocols, not another megacorp inserting itself between people. Micropayments should be part of the HTTP protocol.

New comment by dgudkov in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

dgudkov — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:03:25 +0000

Arguing without a common goal (objective) is always about personal beliefs (subjective).

New comment by dgudkov in "Tidal AI Policy"

dgudkov — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:16:48 +0000

It develops itself once you drink wine frequently enough.

New comment by dgudkov in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

dgudkov — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:28:50 +0000

It's not laziness. It's a shift of burden (bullshit checks) to the consumer. That burden is not trivial. It takes time and energy, so it's much better for the society when people don't have to do it often. LLMs (will) increase that burden by orders of magnitude as we're going to experience bullshittification of pretty much everything - entertainment, services, software, gadgets, science & research, healthcare, lawmaking, etc.

New comment by dgudkov in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

dgudkov — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:38:27 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by dgudkov in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

dgudkov — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:06:33 +0000

Benefits of being a billionaire are vastly overstated. To live a happy life, you don't need to be a billionaire.

New comment by dgudkov in "Every Frame Perfect"

dgudkov — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:49:09 +0000

Never use animation just for the sake of it. This article would not have existed had software designers stuck to this rule. All examples in the article use completely unnecessary animation.