Hacker News: bberenberg

New comment by bberenberg in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

bberenberg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:06:49 +0000

We're helping non technical users adopt AI by making usage visible. Power users become role models and people can upskill to gain value rather than lose their jobs to AI.

It's a complex problem because we need to balance trivial UX, with a slew of security and compliance requirements.

This is the first non founder developer role on the z0.ai codebase. We need someone who can own the full stack end to end: product surfaces people enjoy using, services that stay correct, and the taste to make both feel like one product.

We're funded and are live with our first customer already. We expect to onboard our next customer later this week and are actively ramping up sales efforts.

Check out the full job posting at https://www.z0.ai/careers/founding-engineer/ and send an email to join@z0.ai

New comment by bberenberg in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

bberenberg — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:33:13 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_of_primary_sourc...

It’s their official policy.

New comment by bberenberg in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

bberenberg — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:12:06 +0000

Stripe can’t do anything per the way CCs work. Asking for that to change is a big ask. Asking my vendor to help me not do business with people who are likely to scam me is a smaller one.

New comment by bberenberg in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

bberenberg — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:30:36 +0000

I have a hard time with the idea that Wikipedia is unbiased when the main source in most cases is news reporting. Wikipedia is a societal form of Gell-Mann Amnesia.

New comment by bberenberg in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

bberenberg — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:56:32 +0000

It matched their LinkedIn photo.

New comment by bberenberg in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

bberenberg — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:43:16 +0000

I got hit with a fraudulent chargeback (claim was the purchase was unauthorized and the person showed up in person to a class) and it was doubly bad because they paid via Link which means that Stripe actively verified them via 2FA.

Can someone explain to me why Stripe (or a competitor) doesn't offer a setting "refuse transactions for cards that have filed > x chargebacks with merchants this year"?

New comment by bberenberg in "Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files"

bberenberg — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:05:49 +0000

Only if it has access to exfiltrate data. We deny by default and the company has to allowlist each individual destination.

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.