<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bkrausz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bkrausz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:06:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bkrausz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time<p>When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless.<p>We’re building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs — and companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare already rely on us.<p>We’re ~3 years old, ~60 people, with strong revenue, several years of runway, and backing from Sequoia and a16z.<p>As one of our first 40 engineers, you’ll have real ownership, autonomy to build great products, and a direct hand in shaping the future of how developers consume APIs.<p>We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, and kind people who want to make software development better for everyone.<p>Learn more & apply → <a href="https://stainless.com/jobs?utm_source=YlRQ8pvARO" rel="nofollow">https://stainless.com/jobs?utm_source=YlRQ8pvARO</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:44:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860331</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time
When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless.
We’re building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs — and companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare already rely on us.
We’re ~3 years old, ~50 people, with strong revenue, several years of runway, and backing from Sequoia and a16z.
As one of our first 35 engineers, you’ll have real ownership, autonomy to build great products, and a direct hand in shaping the future of how developers consume APIs.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, and kind people who want to make software development better for everyone.
Learn more & apply → <a href="https://stainless.com/jobs?utm_source=YlRQ8pvARO" rel="nofollow">https://stainless.com/jobs?utm_source=YlRQ8pvARO</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:54:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113062</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time<p>When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless.<p>We’re building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs — and companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare already rely on us.<p>We’re ~3 years old, ~50 people, with strong revenue, several years of runway, and backing from Sequoia and a16z.<p>As one of our first 35 engineers, you’ll have real ownership, autonomy to build great products, and a direct hand in shaping the future of how developers consume APIs.<p>We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, and kind people who want to make software development better for everyone.<p>Learn more & apply → <a href="https://stainless.com/jobs?utm_source=YlRQ8pvARO" rel="nofollow">https://stainless.com/jobs?utm_source=YlRQ8pvARO</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:31:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803333</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time<p>When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless.<p>We’re building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs — and companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare already rely on us.<p>We’re ~3 years old, ~35 people, with strong revenue, several years of runway, and backing from Sequoia and a16z.<p>As one of our first 25 engineers, you’ll have real ownership, autonomy to build great products, and a direct hand in shaping the future of how developers consume APIs.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, and kind people who want to make software development better for everyone.<p>Learn more & apply → <a href="https://stainless.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://stainless.com/jobs</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:27:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763150</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In lieu of an official comment: the fraud detection that we run on account signup was overly aggressive, especially in response to the massive attention we've seen/new shapes of attacks. We've tuned it down and unbanned a number of accounts. If you're still seeing issues with your account specifically let me know the account at bkrausz at anthropic.com and I'll dig into it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:12:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708432</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We haven't seen any issues in the last day+ with SMS delivery. Sometimes Twilio will blackhole a phone number if they suspect abuse, but not sure if that's the case here.<p>If you want to email bkrausz at anthropic.com with your phone number I'm happy to check logs (assuming it's still not working).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:10:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708411</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Claude 3 model family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Claude.ai is not currently available in the EU...we should have prevented you from signing up in the first place though (unless you're using a VPN...)<p>Sorry about that, we really want to expand availability and are working to do so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592924</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Long context prompting for Claude 2.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(I work on product at Anthropic)<p>Sorry to hear about that! It sounds like you might have been using an unpinned model version, e.g. `claude-2`, which is designed to automatically get the latest models as they are released. We also support pinned model versions, e.g. `claude-2.0` or `claude-2.1`, which will not be upgraded automatically.<p>We've been moving away from recommending unpinned versions and are likely to only have pinned versions with future major model releases to avoid this sort of issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:39:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562784</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Claude 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We changed our naming to remove the v going forward: claude-2 should work<p><a href="https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/reference/selecting-a-model" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/reference/selecting-a-mode...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36688321</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36688321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36688321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Claude 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you contact support via <a href="https://support.anthropic.com/en/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://support.anthropic.com/en/</a> (button in the bottom right) and mention bkrausz: that'll capture some browser information and I can dig into it from there.<p>Much appreciated!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:54:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687092</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Model card and evaluations for Claude models [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Send an email to support@anthropic.com and mention my username...I'll see what I can do :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:21:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36684163</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36684163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36684163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Claude 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We had a bug we fixed shortly after launch with how we were sending prompts to Claude that was causing worse output. I retried your prompt and it's acting much better now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:55:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682809</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | <a href="https://kenchi.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://kenchi.com/jobs</a><p>Brian and Michael here! We're 2 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). We started and helped scale Stripe's support team from just a few people in Gmail to their current size. Now we're bringing those lessons and tools to other startups. We have customers with hundreds of people each scaling their teams with Kenchi. Kenchi is about human-in-the-loop automation, currently targeting support teams. We sit inside your browser to provide a privacy-first approach to team members automating aspects of their work in any environment they sit in. We need to be snappy, resilient to running in different JS environments, and smart about how we tie into different pages to extract information in a robust and resilient way.<p>We're looking for full-stack devs and designers to join our team of (currently) 3. Founder-types who want to wear many hats, are curious about the innards of different frameworks, and love working across many parts of the system will thrive.<p>Shoot us an email at jobs@kenchi.com to say hi! We'd love to hear about something you've worked on before of which you're most proud. Talk soon :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 01:10:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741989</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | <a href="https://kenchi.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://kenchi.com/jobs</a><p>Brian and Michael here! We're 2 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). We started and helped scale Stripe's support team from just a few people in Gmail to their current size. Now we're bringing those lessons and tools to other startups. We have customers with hundreds of people each scaling their teams with Kenchi.
Kenchi is about human-in-the-loop automation, currently targeting support teams. We sit inside your browser to provide a privacy-first approach to team members automating aspects of their work in any environment they sit in. We need to be snappy, resilient to running in different JS environments, and smart about how we tie into different pages to extract information in a robust and resilient way.<p>We're looking for full-stack devs and designers to join our team of (currently) 3. Founder-types who want to wear many hats, are curious about the innards of different frameworks, and love working across many parts of the system will thrive.<p>Shoot us an email at jobs@kenchi.com to say hi! We'd love to hear about something you've worked on before of which you're most proud. Talk soon :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:13:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28384337</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28384337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28384337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Give me /events, not webhooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don’t fully thank me, I was also the architect of the Transfers API to Connect transition :). There’s a lot I would have done differently there were I doing it again, though much of the complexity (e.g. the async verification webhooks) were to satisfy compliance needs. Hard to say how much easier the v1 could’ve been given the constraints at the time, though I’m very impressed with the work Stripe has done since to make paying people easier (particularly Express).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:20:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835595</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Give me /events, not webhooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi Basta! Can confirm both that he works at Stripe and is right.<p>Years ago there wasn't even a Kafka portion, that's newer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827702</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Give me /events, not webhooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When designing something like this as a service, the biggest question is what other developers will find easy to use. Every cheap host supports inbound HTTP requests, and most web developers know how to receive them.<p>Stripe needs to be usable by both the developers building intense, scalable, reliable systems and the people teaching themselves to code in a limited context on a limited platform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2021 23:13:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827375</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Give me /events, not webhooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was responsible for Stripe's API abstractions, including webhooks and /events, for a number of years. Some interesting tidbits:<p>Many large customers eventually had some issue with webhooks that required intervention. Stripe retries webhooks that fail for up to 3 days: I remember $large_customer coming back from a 3 day weekend and discovering that they had pushed bad code and failed to process some webhooks. We'd often get requests to retry all failed webhooks in a time period. The best customers would have infrastructure to do this themselves off of /v1/events, though this was unfortunately rare.<p>The biggest challenges with webhooks:<p>- Delivery: some customer timing out connections for 30s causing the queues to get backed up (Stripe was much smaller back then).<p>- Versioning: synchronous API requests can use a version specified in the request, but webhooks, by virtue of rendering the object and showing its changed values (there was a `previous_attributes` hash), need to be rendered to a specific version. This made upgrading API versions hard for customers.<p>There was constant discussion about building some non-webhook pathway for events, but they all have challenges and webhooks + /v1/events were both simple enough for smaller customers and workable for larger customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:11:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27824944</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27824944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27824944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | <a href="https://kenchi.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://kenchi.com/jobs</a>
Brian and Michael here! We're 2 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). We started and helped scale Stripe's support team from just a few people in Gmail to their current size. Now we're bringing those lessons and tools to other startups. We have customers with hundreds of people each scaling their teams with Kenchi.<p>Kenchi is about human-in-the-loop automation, currently targeting support teams. We sit inside your browser to provide a privacy-first approach to team members automating aspects of their work in any environment they sit in. We need to be snappy, resilient to running in different JS environments, and smart about how we tie into different pages to extract information in a robust and resilient way.<p>We're looking for full-stack devs and designers. Founder-types who want to wear many hats, are curious about the innards of different frameworks, and love working across many parts of the system will thrive.<p>Shoot us an email at jobs@kenchi.com to say hi! We'd love to hear about something you've worked on before of which you're most proud. Talk soon :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:30:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705678</link><dc:creator>bkrausz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bkrausz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | <a href="https://kenchi.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://kenchi.com/jobs</a><p>Brian, Michael, and Kevin here! We're 3 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). We started and helped scale Stripe's support team from just a few people in Gmail to their current size. Now we're bringing those lessons and tools to other startups. We have customers with hundreds of people each scaling their teams with Kenchi.<p>Kenchi is about human-in-the-loop automation, currently targeting support teams. We sit inside your browser to provide a privacy-first approach to team members automating aspects of their work in any environment they sit in. We need to be snappy, resilient to running in different JS environments, and smart about how we tie into different pages to extract information in a robust and resilient way.<p>We're looking for full-stack devs and design. We're 3 people now, so founder-types who want to wear many hats, are curious about the innards of different frameworks, and love working across many parts of the system will thrive.<p>Shoot us an email at jobs@kenchi.com to say hi! We'd love to hear about something you've worked on before of which you're most proud. Talk soon :)</p>
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