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ronbenton

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Elastic layoff translation (June 24, 2026)

layofftranslator.com
4 points·by ronbenton·16 dagen geleden·1 comments

2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation

layoff-translator.pages.dev
60 points·by ronbenton·24 dagen geleden·14 comments

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

2 points·by ronbenton·vorige maand·1 comments

Show HN: Easy Locality Domain Lookup

locality-domains.pages.dev
2 points·by ronbenton·2 maanden geleden·0 comments

Ask HN: Has your company implemented agentic coding?

2 points·by ronbenton·3 maanden geleden·0 comments

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

6 points·by ronbenton·4 maanden geleden·11 comments

IRS tax withholding estimator has been open sourced

github.com
7 points·by ronbenton·4 maanden geleden·0 comments

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

2 points·by ronbenton·5 maanden geleden·1 comments

Quality is a hard sell in big tech

pcloadletter.dev
7 points·by ronbenton·5 maanden geleden·3 comments

Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?

6 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·7 comments

The Birthday Paradox, Simulated

pcloadletter.dev
2 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·0 comments

Pre-Agent Nostalgia

pcloadletter.dev
12 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·5 comments

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

3 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·3 comments

Features for no one (AI edition)

pcloadletter.dev
1 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·0 comments

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

pcloadletter.dev
100 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·212 comments

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

3 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·1 comments

Cool project, will you actually maintain it?

pcloadletter.dev
4 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·1 comments

Software Craftsmanship Is Dead

pcloadletter.dev
44 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·24 comments

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

pcloadletter.dev
7 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·1 comments

I hope generative AI does away with SEO

pcloadletter.dev
2 points·by ronbenton·6 maanden geleden·1 comments

comments

ronbenton
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
Weird dark surveillance state stuff. I thought EU was trying to champion privacy?
ronbenton
·7 dagen geleden·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 dagen geleden·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 dagen geleden·discuss
Seems like a good way to get targeted by attackers
ronbenton
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
Here's my translation of this announcement: https://layofftranslator.com/layoffs/2026-06-24-elastic/
ronbenton
·16 dagen geleden·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 dagen geleden·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 dagen geleden·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 dagen geleden·discuss
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
ronbenton
·22 dagen geleden·discuss
Some felt too easily guessable. Too many joke answers maybe?
ronbenton
·22 dagen geleden·discuss
Can’t trust anything online
ronbenton
·24 dagen geleden·discuss
In this market they can essentially all collude to treat employees like garbage
ronbenton
·24 dagen geleden·discuss
They’re saving that for the next one
ronbenton
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
lol how is something so simple both inaccessible (poor color contrast) and not mobile friendly?
ronbenton
·27 dagen geleden·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
·vorige maand·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
·vorige maand·discuss
>Build for developers, not benchmarks

That sounds like something you say when you don't benchmark well
ronbenton
·vorige maand·discuss
I’m shocked I say. Shocked.
ronbenton
·vorige maand·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
·vorige maand·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...