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New comment by bberenberg in "Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs"

bberenberg — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:58:16 +0000

I've built something similar to this internally and absolutely agree that timing is the real challenge.

Getting an AI to navigate a process is now easy. However, the difficult problem is having it understand: 1. How to screenshot or, even better, capture a GIF of exactly the right points in time 2. How to move the mouse and pause at the right points in time such that a human understands it

New comment by bberenberg in "Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete"

bberenberg — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:13:34 +0000

This seems great for code, but can this be used for non-code use cases?

New comment by bberenberg in "O'saasy License Agreement"

bberenberg — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:55:54 +0000

I did not intend to be critical of their work. They're doing OSS as best as they can and good for them. I am just saying that it's a different beast if Sentry is OSS vs a much simpler to operate OSS product. Licensing matters less when the operational cost acts as an inhibitor to adoption of your OSS offering.

New comment by bberenberg in "O'saasy License Agreement"

bberenberg — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:40:58 +0000

Isn’t the “solution” for Sentry that deploying it is such a pain in the ass that no one bothers to really do this? I haven’t checked in years but that always seemed like the real competitive blocker?

New comment by bberenberg in "The accidental click that changed everything: the Apify origin story"

bberenberg — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:58:54 +0000

API ify

New comment by bberenberg in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails"

bberenberg — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:57:10 +0000

Yes but I don't rely on rice I bought a year ago or DOOM as a core component of my business. Trying to work around a business model (subscription saas) requires that you understand what people are buying, and often, especially with you vendors, that is a financial alignment between the two.

New comment by bberenberg in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails"

bberenberg — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:52:08 +0000

I think all of the boilerplate projects you can find.

Are ONCE projects getting updates? We will find a year or two?

Your model is a subscription, we just don’t get to know when you decide to have a new major version and plan pricing / spend as a result.

New comment by bberenberg in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails"

bberenberg — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:26:30 +0000

I think this is a great idea with the wrong pricing model. Look at all the one off payment products that involve code, they're all dead. Just charge a lower but recurring price so I can be sure that you make enough money that you keep working on it. $20/month flat price to keep the license working and source available if you shut down. If people like it and want the barebones Sentry then charge them $40 a month to provide code and host it. Wishing you the best of luck.

New comment by bberenberg in "Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?"

bberenberg — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:09:16 +0000

Alert fatigue. Down Detector will show an outage with a service when the intermediate network is down. Companies have to triage alerts and once they’re validated they are posted on a status page. Some companies abuse this to hide their outages. Others delay in a reasonable manner.

I have considered building something to address this and even own honeststatuspage.com to eventually host it on. But it’s a complex problem without an obviously correct answer.

New comment by bberenberg in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

bberenberg — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 05:07:36 +0000

Because the outcomes and demographics for sports betting vs the other two show different aggregate money movements and we make judgements about what we consider to be acceptably and unacceptably informed and consenting risk accepting behavior.

New comment by bberenberg in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

bberenberg — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:32:56 +0000

Merceds has accepted a degree of liability? https://www.prescouter.com/2024/04/mercedes-benz-level-3-dri...

Temac: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Automated Web GUI Testing

bberenberg — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:35:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00520

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907377

Points: 3

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New comment by bberenberg in "The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender"

bberenberg — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:06:15 +0000

As someone who uses Docuseal, please don’t focus on this and add UX improvements for end users. For example, filters for who has signed things.

New comment by bberenberg in "I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains"

bberenberg — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:01:05 +0000

I build all kinds of “useless” stuff. Recently I did a LoungeBuddy clone[0]. Prior to that I made a bunch of other things you can see at [1]. I toss things on domains I happen to own if it makes sense. Sometimes they live on a path of an existing domain. If I don’t need the thing anymore I recycle the domain for something else. I’m fortunate enough that I can afford to pay this tax on my entertainment.

[0] https://www.tacavo.com/ [1] https://abrega.com

New comment by bberenberg in "I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again"

bberenberg — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:51:52 +0000

I build random things in the “indie hacker” way but it’s always more about doing stuff for me than others. I find it enjoyable and fun, and that’s what drives it. If I get some traction, then great, but if not, I also get the tool I wanted and the fun experience and learning of building it. While I wish this didn’t come at the expense of reading less, I am happy it means my TV backlog is growing.

New comment by bberenberg in "Lima Site 85: How a CIA Helicopter Defended a Secret U.S. Radar Facility"

bberenberg — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:44:05 +0000

I think you can celebrate the ingenuity of a moment in a conflict without condoning the whole of it. Shooting down a plane with a helicopter is hard, this is the first time it happened as far as we know.

Also, when I was taught about the Vietnam War there was a huge amount of respect paid to the creativity of the North Korean forces in how they ran their military operations. Obviously a 1/n anecdote.

New comment by bberenberg in "Just because Silicon Valley makes this junk doesn't mean people will buy it"

bberenberg — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:51:00 +0000

I have the meta ray bans, they’re amazing. Not as a general computing device but as a hands free minimal one. I love using it in place of where you would usually think of an action cam. At the beach, go karting, on a run, riding a bike, on a ride, etc

New comment by bberenberg in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

bberenberg — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:07:18 +0000

I build tools all the time using AI tools that would have taken me 10x longer before. A couple examples below. The first example was a literal one shot of my dumping the full page html into cursor and asking it for the feature I needed. In using it today it already saved me over an hour of analysis time across the refunds I analyze. The second example includes using AI for better classifying text and having our support people better use their time to help customers. I could have probably made the second thing without LLMs but I didn’t have the skills. Here I was able to provide concrete value to our company and our customers.

https://github.com/Atlas-Authority/mpac-ui-improved https://moduscreate.com/blog/forum-monitoring-is-essential-b... (Pardon how marketing keyword stuffed the final post)

New comment by bberenberg in "Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection"

bberenberg — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:13:17 +0000

Just keep in mind that lucky risk-takers who can do this on a risk adjusted basis are a good thing. The problem is when they can't risk adjust and burn everything down.

New comment by bberenberg in "Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool"

bberenberg — Sat, 17 May 2025 18:50:05 +0000

I would be interested to see all the steel types ranked by total surface area within the polygon.