Hacker News: ronbenton

New comment by ronbenton in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

ronbenton — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:01:27 +0000

The author of the post is known for some pretty fancy CSS wizardry. I’m guessing AI is not great on some very specific, advanced CSS use cases where there isn’t much prior work. But again this is an edge case compared to what the vast majority of us are doing

New comment by ronbenton in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

ronbenton — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:33:44 +0000

Everything is nuanced and generalizations help no one. There are absolutely frontend apps where AI straight up crushes. Sure these much be less novel apps but most of what people work on is a CRUD-esque interface.

New comment by ronbenton in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

ronbenton — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:01:26 +0000

I want to know how he’s identifying and monetizing businesses

New comment by ronbenton in "AI Job Loss Tracker"

ronbenton — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:54:20 +0000

How do they differentiate AI job loss from normal layoffs that companies are pretending are due to AI to get brownie points from shareholders?

Ask HN: Has your company implemented agentic coding?

ronbenton — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:07:51 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669066

Points: 2

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New comment by ronbenton in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"

ronbenton — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:11:09 +0000

Is this market research?

New comment by ronbenton in "Working on Products People Hate"

ronbenton — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:24:47 +0000

I agree with this. I don’t even this Sean says anything controversial in the article so I’m not sure what the negativity is about.

New comment by ronbenton in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

ronbenton — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:37:47 +0000

> For the most part all this bot protection is only protecting these websites against humans.

Curious how do you know this?

New comment by ronbenton in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

ronbenton — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:00:54 +0000

I remember reading somewhere else that there was a psychological benefit for kids as well. Not having the constant pressure to check the device. Just seems like a big win all around.

New comment by ronbenton in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

ronbenton — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:59:03 +0000

Bypassing logging feels relatively unimportant compared to some of the recent EntraID vulns we’ve seen

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

ronbenton — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:27:18 +0000

Was perusing job postings today and saw this on a Zapier listing:

"You work through AI agents, not alongside them. Your daily development workflow is built around directing and reviewing agent-written code, not writing it by hand. You have opinions about which models to use for which tasks, you've hit real failure modes and built mitigations, and your workflow is actively evolving. Bonus: you use multi-agent patterns, enable others on your team to build faster with AI, or have scaled AI impact beyond yourself."

This took me aback a little as I don't think yet I have seen companies talking about hand-writing code being bad.

Is this happening more often?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303745

Points: 6

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IRS tax withholding estimator has been open sourced

ronbenton — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:52:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/IRS-Public/tax-withholding-estimator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303467

Points: 7

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New comment by ronbenton in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

ronbenton — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:01:10 +0000

Having struggled with hard to diagnose health issues before, I can’t emphasize enough how much of a relief it is to put a name on the disease that is causing you so much harm.

It is frankly shocking to think disease diagnosis would be a useless thing

New comment by ronbenton in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

ronbenton — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:59:59 +0000

All the disclosure and legal issues aside, it’s sobering to think of how many of these types of trivial bugs exist on random websites that collect sensitive user information. It seems hopeless to try to safeguard one’s own information.

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

ronbenton — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:36:10 +0000

I and some of my developer friends are having common experiences at work right now where expectations are going up and staffing is stagnating or going down. I am feeling burnt out from it. Are you feeling this right now too?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096912

Points: 2

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New comment by ronbenton in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

ronbenton — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:10:19 +0000

Sometimes I get an "uncanny valley" vibe when reading AI-generated text. It can be pretty unnerving.

New comment by ronbenton in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

ronbenton — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:03:40 +0000

I just pasted the first paragraph in an "AI detector" app and it indeed came back as 100% AI. But I heard those things are unreliable. How did you determine this was LLM-generated? The same way?

New comment by ronbenton in "Quality is a hard sell in big tech"

ronbenton — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:47:46 +0000

I agree this is a result of monopolization or more specifically "lock-in." I spent some time at Microsoft making products in their 365 suite and it was frankly known that enterprise contracts with us were a form of lock-in--the idea of moving a 100K employee workforce off of Microsoft 365 and onto something else is nearly impossible. So management didn't worry much about quality.

Quality is a hard sell in big tech

ronbenton — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:36:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/big-tech-quality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842789

Points: 7

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New comment by ronbenton in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

ronbenton — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:55:14 +0000

We are on the darkest of paths. It’s like the current US administration is using our collective greatest fears about data privacy as a playbook.