Hacker News: dgudkov

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.

New comment by dgudkov in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

dgudkov — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:43:08 +0000

"We collect everyone's data without paying a dime or respecting copyright, trained our models, but you can't train your models on our models that are trained on everyone's data collected without paying a dime or respecting copyright. We did a hard job stealing that all data and processing it, have some shame!"

New comment by dgudkov in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

dgudkov — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:23:58 +0000

Refuse. Reject. Rebel.

New comment by dgudkov in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

dgudkov — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:33:19 +0000

It's refreshing to see people doing something conceptually interesting outside of the LLM domain.

New comment by dgudkov in "AI is too expensive"

dgudkov — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:08:10 +0000

I don't see any problem with refunding the massive AI expenses. All the AI costs will be pushed down on consumers whether they need AI or not. Nobody will ask them. Everybody is so deeply hooked on SaaS and cloud and LLM providers that they have lost any bargaining power and will pay whatever prices the hyperscalers and SaaS platforms will tell them to pay. The prices have already been raising because "now it includes AI".

To pay back $3 trillion, 1 billion consumers will have to pay just $3000 each, or $83/mo monthly over 3 years, on average. Of course they will pay that and even more.

New comment by dgudkov in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

dgudkov — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:04:09 +0000

Yeah, what's the point in technically spending more time with kids if half of that time you stare at your mobile phone.

New comment by dgudkov in "Brands got worse on purpose"

dgudkov — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:53:37 +0000

Let's not pretend that shareholders are innocent. They are happy with the quick buck the board gives them.

The State of the Culture (2024)

dgudkov — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:47:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359758

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dgudkov in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

dgudkov — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:20:59 +0000

I don't see how customers are less important than developers.

New comment by dgudkov in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

dgudkov — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:58:50 +0000

While WASM Components haven't arrived yet, what's the current best framework for JS/WASM glue?

New comment by dgudkov in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

dgudkov — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:14:25 +0000

Apparently, shareholders want more profit.

New comment by dgudkov in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

dgudkov — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:06:10 +0000

Dehumanizing customers by making them talk to (or chat with) AI bots is OK and kinda cool.

Dehumanizing [potential] employees by making them talk to (or chat with) AI bots is NOT OK and kinda sucks.

Am I getting it right?

New comment by dgudkov in "America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice"

dgudkov — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:05:40 +0000

>We are essentially offloading our moral responsibility to a black box that cannot be held accountable.

Do you have the same sentiment about self-driving cars?

New comment by dgudkov in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

dgudkov — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:00:22 +0000

One of the mistakes in viewing Russia/USSR is applying similar social/cultural patterns typical for the Western civilization. But they are a very different culture and mentality.

Their space achievements are an impressive proof of how far one can go in faking progress at scale by massive technology theft, enslavement, and violence. You can really achieve a lot this way! Rockets and nuclear devices have been designed by captured Nazi scientists and imprisoned engineers (later designs by home-grown engineers have been largely based on those designs). Key technologies were not invented but stolen, copied, and reverse-engineered. Factories designed and built by US design bureaus (before WW2). Cheap labour provided by enslaved peasants who didn't even have the freedom to move to a big city. Borders closed to prevent brain outflow. And lots lots of violence against their own people just for the sake of "looking like a global power".

And since it was always fake, no major technology went out of the USSR and became widespread globally such as computers, networks, internet, software stacks, protocols, etc. Nothing major and widely useful came out of the USSR or post-USSR Russia.

So what you see with Russia happening now, is just the bubble popping. Long due.

Plessey System 250

dgudkov — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:42:56 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey_System_250

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46880289

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dgudkov in "Canada"

dgudkov — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:37:40 +0000

I think it makes sense. The EU is possible because the founding countries are of more or less similar size. You can't really make a fair balanced partnership with a country 10 times bigger, we've just learned that. So Canada joining the EU makes sense from a political perspective. Carney had a point when talked about "middle powers" in Davos.

From an economical perspective, it makes less sense because of, well, the Atlantic ocean. Nevertheless, Canada has what Europe needs - oil, LNG, minerals. To a certain extent, things can work out.

Europe vs. America: the West at War with Itself [video]

dgudkov — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:32:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUhQq3iPOo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597590

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Canada launched its local alternative to PayPal

dgudkov — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:29:07 +0000

Article URL: https://konek.ca/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975849

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by dgudkov in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

dgudkov — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:06:25 +0000

We were burned by Wise as well when they suddenly moved our business account to another partner bank in the US and that of course changed our account number. The account was registered in dozens of procurement systems of our enterprise customers and it took us several months and a lot of pain to resume receiving payments from those customers who kept sending them to the now wrong account. I can never imagine a "traditional" bank doing that.

After that, we transferred the bulk of our funds back to a "traditional" bank and now never use Wise as the main business account. We now use it mostly for operational expenses.

Wise still has something to learn about banking business.