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reticulating
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reticulating is a personal blog at reticulating.substack.com about economics and startups. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Y Combinator's Corgi Insurance, a $2.6B disaster in the making?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on Corgi's insurance structure and on Polymarket's UMA-based resolution process, citing them in threads about both companies.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Launched 6 months ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Y Combinator's Corgi Insurance, a $2.6B disaster in the making?2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-06-26
What Hacker News says?
Risklytics are taking the boring, sensible approach of being a broker, modernizing the application process to broaden the type of clients that can be underwritten. Corgi are taking the batshit insane approach of insuring clients directly through an esoteric insurance structure that dodges regulation. Choosing Corgi over a typical broker is playing with fire. https://reticulating.substack.com/p/ycombinators-corgi-ins…
Comment linking /p/ycombinators-corgi-insurance-a-26
on “Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies”Submitted Y Combinator's Corgi Insurance, a $2.6B disaster in the making? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPeter is currently threatening me with a defamation suit, he seems to be quite the litigious man. My defamation suit is because I wrote a post summarizing my comments from this thread about Corgi: https://reticulating.substack.com/p/ycombinators-corgi-insur... I guess when you're working 7 days a week you've gotta find something to fill the time with.
Comment linking /p/ycombinators-corgi-insurance-a-26
on “You didn't vibe code it, you stole it from open source&enterprise-licensed code”Submitted Polymarket Isn't a Prediction Market for the Real World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCorgi is even worse than just circular revenue, their entire insurance business is a house of cards: https://reticulating.substack.com/p/ycombinators-corgi-insur...
Comment linking /p/ycombinators-corgi-insurance-a-26
on “LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders”There’s a lot of talk about corruption in UMA but I think it is oversold as a problem. UMA is just a scapegoat for Polymarket’s desired outcome. Polymarket implemented the “independent” truth process with UMS following regulatory scrutiny but they still decide the outcome. https://reticulating.substack.com/p/polymarket-isnt-a-predic...
Comment linking /p/polymarket-isnt-a-prediction-market
on “Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket”