Hacker News: vladmk

New comment by vladmk in "Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

vladmk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:11:03 +0000

It’s not a CEO thing - just like Jerk employees exist, jerk CEOs exist too

New comment by vladmk in "Child prodigies rarely become elite performers"

vladmk — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:37:49 +0000

I’ll do you one better - elite performers rarely become child prodigies

New comment by vladmk in "Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]"

vladmk — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:13:24 +0000

Loved The Snowball Effect I read it at 21 and should probably reread it

New comment by vladmk in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

vladmk — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:38:32 +0000

Yeah saw this - I can't believe a company would steer so far wrong...

New comment by vladmk in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

vladmk — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:43:43 +0000

nothing new here.

New comment by vladmk in "Plex Security Incident"

vladmk — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:43:04 +0000

unfortunately things like this happen a lot more than they should

New comment by vladmk in "Dexter Cows and Kefir Cheese (2008)"

vladmk — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:04:27 +0000

Love Kefir reminds me of being a kid

New comment by vladmk in "Which colors are primary?"

vladmk — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:13:21 +0000

Blue and red

New comment by vladmk in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

vladmk — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:59:49 +0000

Too bad for you - you’re missing out

New comment by vladmk in "Nvidia CEO on whether AI will lead to job losses [video]"

vladmk — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:27:46 +0000

nailed it.

New comment by vladmk in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

vladmk — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:40:19 +0000

Curious to how many projects you launched you personally resonated with before this one

New comment by vladmk in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

vladmk — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:32:50 +0000

And now he’s definitely gonna break 100k in MRR with this viral post keep going! :-)

Wonder what the equity split ended up being with the growth partner probable 60/40 at best for Jon

New comment by vladmk in "I do not remember my life and it's fine"

vladmk — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 02:42:07 +0000

How does he remember this? "Occasionally, someone shows pity or commiseration towards me, as if I were in constant, daily suffering from a crippling disability. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course."

New comment by vladmk in "Strep A kills half a million per year; why don't we have a vaccine?"

vladmk — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 06:08:11 +0000

That's easy to say, but not productive. What are the diseases that kill the most people we should be working on?

New comment by vladmk in "1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor"

vladmk — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 23:03:09 +0000

SMH and Zendesk responds the wrong way on his post. Guys, just pay the kid instead you're making business owners like me start recommending my friends and clients against using Zendesk...

What happened in WA when Bezos Left

vladmk — Sat, 25 May 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/capital-gains-tax-receipts-in-wa-tumble/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40476320

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vladmk in "TikTok shelled out $7M on lobbying and ads to combat potential U.S. ban"

vladmk — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:18:46 +0000

Well this is sadly not surprising. Wonder what lobbying efforts are with other companies

New comment by vladmk in "100 Little Ideas"

vladmk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:23:33 +0000

This is gold - I doubt it’ll get the attention it deserves, but great stuff

New comment by vladmk in "Ask HN: Do you look for freelance tech opportunities? What do you hate about it?"

vladmk — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:22:53 +0000

I think that’s hard to agree with and we do freelance work all the time.

This is because people go to freelancers for 1. Speed 2. Quality 3. Temporary work

If something is temporary and you want it fast then a majority of the time you’ll want it cheap.

BUT you could find a really small market that wants to go fast and expensive - it’s just much smaller

New comment by vladmk in "Ask HN: What was the most transformative experience you had as a student?"

vladmk — Thu, 18 May 2023 17:29:29 +0000

all the lessons would be way too long to write, but here’s a fun crazy one:

I had a stalker once who complained to my employer (this was after I rejected her) that I was harassing them.

Her mom came down to our office to complain about me - what ended up happening was even crazier.

My team was behind me because it was impossible for me to harass her and kept telling her to leave me alone, but my manager called me in to the office anyways.

I told him to ask the team and that it was false, but he gave me advice that I still utilize to this day.

“Vlad when cleaning a mess, use the lightest detergent first”.

It was very simple, so I apologized to her and surprisingly things smoothened out a bit. All it took was for me to be more cordial towards this girl.

Now here’s the crazy kicker - my boss who gave me that exact same advice was later kicked out of the school on sexual abuse charges so sometimes I wonder if his detergent lesson wasn’t a metaphor.