Hacker News: ronbenton

New comment by ronbenton in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

ronbenton — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:48:22 +0000

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.

New comment by ronbenton in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

ronbenton — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:35:05 +0000

>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...

New comment by ronbenton in "Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells"

ronbenton — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:30:47 +0000

Petition to rename this “SlopCop”

Show HN: Easy Locality Domain Lookup

ronbenton — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:56:40 +0000

A nice article about setting up personal locality domains was posted yesterday (https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/). However, I and many other people found it challenging to look up their locality domain and associated contact information.

I did my best to use some automation to grab all of the locality domains and contact info from associated SOA records and put it all in a more easily searchable website. Hope this helps anyone who was stuck like me!

https://locality-domains.pages.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143198

Points: 2

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New comment by ronbenton in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

ronbenton — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:44:48 +0000

Hey surely Meta wouldn’t send that data to a government interested in regulating women’s reproductive rights

New comment by ronbenton in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

ronbenton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:52:37 +0000

Imagine having the second fastest marathon time ever yet not winning the marathon you ran it in

New comment by ronbenton in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

ronbenton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:09:49 +0000

Accidentally migrating the wrong domain name is incompetence. Doing so without any of the required documentation is negligent. This is bad on multiple levels

New comment by ronbenton in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

ronbenton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:08:32 +0000

This wasn’t a phishing attack. Did you read the article?

New comment by ronbenton in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

ronbenton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:07:32 +0000

I don’t think you read the article. GoDaddy transferred the domain to someone in a local chapter of the same organization. When that person realized what happened, they called the original owner and got everything fixed. There’s no way this is an “inside job” of any kind.

New comment by ronbenton in "The Knight Programming Language"

ronbenton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:26:51 +0000

From what I can tell, the person who posted this is not the author of the language

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