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Arnon Shimoni
Personal blog · arnon.dk · on HN as arnonstartupsbusiness
Arnon Shimoni's personal blog at arnon.dk covers startups and business. Since 2017, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Separate Your Billing from Entitlements”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Arnon Shimoni's posts on separating billing from entitlements, which commenters call a classic, and on AI content eroding online trust. Also cited for CUDA architecture flags.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Startup marketing, billing, monetization, pricing, and some more
Most-linked posts?
- Separate Your Billing from Entitlements8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-02-28
- Things I learned while developing a billing system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-05
- Pains of building your own billing system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-20
What Hacker News says?
I built (together with my team) an entitlement service, which makes creating new billing plans a lot easier, and reduced our time to launch in new markets down to just a few minutes. I wrote about it here https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
Comment linking /why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-entitlement/
on “Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?”Submitted Pains of building your own billing system as a story · 353 points
HN discussionSpeaking of decoupling entitlements, this article is a classic on that theme: https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
Comment linking /why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-entitlement/
on “Pains of building your own billing system”Submitted Things I learned while developing a billing system as a story · 273 points
HN discussion> I prefer to have the entitlement itself just store the expiration date and the details about what entitlements the subscription grants during the time period it is active. The billing system can store the subscription and sync back to the entitlement as-needed. This makes both manual billing by human operators (not to mention debugging and patching around momentary issues) and something like a Stripe integration v…
Comment linking /why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-entitlement/
on “Pains of building your own billing system”Submitted The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful as a story · 237 points
HN discussionAnother great article from Arnon on doing exactly that: https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
Comment linking /why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-entitlement/
on “Pains of building your own billing system”Submitted Separate Your Billing from Entitlements as a story · 177 points
HN discussionPTX does provide a low level machine abstraction. However you still target some version of hardware ( https://arnon.dk/matching-sm-architectures-arch-and-gencode-... ). However a lot of software effort has gone into it to make it look and work seamlessly. Though AMD doesn't have the same "virtual ISA" as PTX right now there are increasing levels of such abstraction available in compiled flows with MLIR / Linalg etc.…
Comment linking /matching-sm-architectures-arch-and-gencode-for-various-nvidia-cards/
on “ROCm Device Support Wishlist”Submitted B2C billing is harder than B2B billing as a story · 31 points
HN discussionDell R720 / R730s, dual GPU (typically with K40m or K80) in there with 1100W dual redundant PSUs and the GPU enablement kit. We also set our fans to constant 70% min, to keep the airflow good. On some servers we introduced the GTX 1080, either along-side a K40/K80 or two per chassis (see http://arnon.dk/how-does-the-nvidia-gtx-1080-stack-up-agains... ). They actually work 15% faster on average compared to the Tesla…
Comment linking /how-does-the-nvidia-gtx-1080-stack-up-against-the-nvidia-tesla-k40/
on “Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning”Submitted The 5 stages of SaaS Death as a story · 14 points
HN discussioncuda error 48 is apparently "No Kernel Image available for execution on this device" Make sure that you're building for the appropriate device architecture. http://arnon.dk/matching-sm-architectures-arch-and-gencode-f...
Comment linking /matching-sm-architectures-arch-and-gencode-for-various-nvidia-cards/
on “Accelerated “Ray Tracing in One Weekend” in CUDA”Submitted The 14 Pains of Billing for AI Agents as a story · 11 points
HN discussionfound it http://arnon.dk/malicious-traffic-detection-using-traffic-fi...
Comment linking /malicious-traffic-detection-using-traffic-fingerprints/
on “Browserprint: Browser fingerprint tool now can guess client OS even when spoofed”Submitted The free tier death cult as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Might be wrong, but brief review of this appears to show the “thesis” of PriceOps is yield-based metered feature pricing The "thesis" of PriceOps is less "you must have metered feature pricing", and more "you should design your infrastructure so that you can learn from and adjust pricing in the future". In other words, expect that your product, customers, and landscape will change, and understand that the pricing…
Comment linking /5-things-i-learned-developing-billing-system/
on “Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe”Submitted The current AI pricing was always going to go away as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou are a kind soul, but your mind is afraid to see reality. It doesn't matter if you share that perspective or not, and "Be the change you want to see in the world" doesn't really say anything here. See this for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWeAhMponc , and this https://arnon.dk/the-trust-collapse-infinite-ai-content-is-a... And check these books "Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart…
Comment linking /the-trust-collapse-infinite-ai-content-is-awful
on “The dead Internet is not a theory anymore”Submitted Contracted ARR Considered Harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can create a blog, yeah. But you also can write the blog with AI. So, you still need to filter the content. Over time, people will find that "The signal-to-noise ratio has hit a breaking point where the cost of verification exceeds the expected value of engagement." https://arnon.dk/the-trust-collapse-infinite-ai-content-is-a...
Comment linking /the-trust-collapse-infinite-ai-content-is-awful
on “The dead Internet is not a theory anymore”Submitted MIT's 95% AI failure rate is wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks Arnon! I often keep sharing your blog post on entitlements: https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e... !
Comment linking /why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-entitlement/
on “Launch HN: Lago (YC S21) – Open-source usage-based billing”Submitted You should separate your billing from entitlements as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful https://arnon.dk/the-trust-collapse-infinite-ai-content-is-a...
Comment linking /the-trust-collapse-infinite-ai-content-is-awful
on “You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore”Submitted Operational debt is worse than tech debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGifting credits to a prospect, a new hire, or an enterprise running a POC is like giving away productive capacity with an obfuscated dollar value attached - hidden behind a credit. I wrote about it too as part of my notes on AI led growth https://arnon.dk/notes-on-ai-led-growth-alg/
Comment linking /notes-on-ai-led-growth-alg/
on “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation”Submitted Notes on where seat-based pricing is going as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere was a great article on this last year: https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
Comment linking /why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-entitlement/
on “Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept”Submitted The free tier death cult as a story · 2 points
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