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ronbenton

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Elastic layoff translation (June 24, 2026)

layofftranslator.com
4 points·by ronbenton·16 hari yang lalu·1 comments

2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation

layoff-translator.pages.dev
60 points·by ronbenton·24 hari yang lalu·14 comments

Ask HN: How much is fully agentic coding costing you per month?

2 points·by ronbenton·bulan lalu·1 comments

Show HN: Easy Locality Domain Lookup

locality-domains.pages.dev
2 points·by ronbenton·2 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Ask HN: Has your company implemented agentic coding?

2 points·by ronbenton·3 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?

6 points·by ronbenton·4 bulan yang lalu·11 comments

IRS tax withholding estimator has been open sourced

github.com
7 points·by ronbenton·4 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Ask HN: Are a lot of the companies turning the screws?

2 points·by ronbenton·5 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

Quality is a hard sell in big tech

pcloadletter.dev
7 points·by ronbenton·5 bulan yang lalu·3 comments

Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?

6 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·7 comments

The Birthday Paradox, Simulated

pcloadletter.dev
2 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Pre-Agent Nostalgia

pcloadletter.dev
12 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·5 comments

Ask HN: Are you having existential questions about being a software engineer?

3 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·3 comments

Features for no one (AI edition)

pcloadletter.dev
1 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

pcloadletter.dev
100 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·212 comments

Ask HN: Do you feel an obvious "uncanny valley" when reading AI-generated text?

3 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

Cool project, will you actually maintain it?

pcloadletter.dev
4 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

Software Craftsmanship Is Dead

pcloadletter.dev
44 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·24 comments

The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation

pcloadletter.dev
7 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

I hope generative AI does away with SEO

pcloadletter.dev
2 points·by ronbenton·6 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

comments

ronbenton
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
Weird dark surveillance state stuff. I thought EU was trying to champion privacy?
ronbenton
·7 hari yang lalu·discuss
One “trick” nowadays is to just do a thing for the sake of doing the thing. I draw. Not to post my drawings to social media, not to try to get income from paid commissions, but rather just to enjoy the act of drawing. It’s very liberating in a world where it feels like almost everything has to be in service of some kind of larger scheme.
ronbenton
·9 hari yang lalu·discuss
Truly have so much trouble keeping up with the frontend (or JavaScript?) ecosystem. I so miss working in laravel. Wish more jobs paid well to use it.
ronbenton
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
Seems like a good way to get targeted by attackers
ronbenton
·16 hari yang lalu·discuss
Here's my translation of this announcement: https://layofftranslator.com/layoffs/2026-06-24-elastic/
ronbenton
·16 hari yang lalu·discuss
I have worked some places where a significant amount of business logic lived in database functions and triggers and, hoo boy, that was really hard to reason about. If you're disciplined enough to have migrations around that implemented all that stuff, you're still going to have an unpleasant time piecing all of it together when debugging. But often you're in a state where you don't even have those breadcrumbs and you're pulling out your hair trying to figure out what's going on.
ronbenton
·18 hari yang lalu·discuss
I’ve seen a framework strip body content off GET requests, so doing hacky things doesn’t even always work. The QUERY method is a welcome addition
ronbenton
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
No? CORS is about preventing an unauthorized third party from _accessing_ data. That’s the meaning of “resource sharing.” If you want to prevent action-taking, there are other mechanisms. For example, using a header-based CSRF token if your auth scheme relies on cookies.
ronbenton
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
ronbenton
·22 hari yang lalu·discuss
Some felt too easily guessable. Too many joke answers maybe?
ronbenton
·22 hari yang lalu·discuss
Can’t trust anything online
ronbenton
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
In this market they can essentially all collude to treat employees like garbage
ronbenton
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
They’re saving that for the next one
ronbenton
·25 hari yang lalu·discuss
lol how is something so simple both inaccessible (poor color contrast) and not mobile friendly?
ronbenton
·27 hari yang lalu·discuss
For a hot second I thought we were looking at glorious jquery until I saw this line at the top

const $ = (id) => document.getElementById(id);
ronbenton
·bulan lalu·discuss
Very happy I had my wife and kids throughout the pandemic and continued remote work since then. I would not have done well otherwise.
ronbenton
·bulan lalu·discuss
>Build for developers, not benchmarks

That sounds like something you say when you don't benchmark well
ronbenton
·bulan lalu·discuss
I’m shocked I say. Shocked.
ronbenton
·bulan lalu·discuss
Humans are complex. I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume there are a lot of people who both rely on and don't like the idea of AI. People can need a car to get around and also be worried about the effects of car emissions. People can dislike cigarettes and be smokers.
ronbenton
·bulan lalu·discuss
>This makes me an outcast. In tech, and out of it.

In tech, maybe. Out of tech? No way. A bunch of surveys show that people are mostly negative on AI. For example: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans...