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by ronbenton 3mo ago
IMO this is the social internet at its best. Pretty obscure question answered relatively quickly with answer and source.
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by ronbenton 3mo ago
Easy, then you just delay your project’s dependency updates just a little more than everyone else
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by ronbenton 3mo ago
Weird dark surveillance state stuff. I thought EU was trying to champion privacy?
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by ronbenton 3mo ago
Glad to hear this is a universal big tech experience. The promo process is entirely antithetical to shipping good products
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by ronbenton 3mo ago
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 i
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by ronbenton 3mo ago
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.
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by ronbenton 3mo ago
Seems like a good way to get targeted by attackers
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
Here's my translation of this announcement: https://layofftranslator.com/layoffs/2026-06-24-elastic/
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Elastic layoff translation (June 24, 2026)(layofftranslator.com)
4 points by ronbenton 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
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
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
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
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
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
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
Some felt too easily guessable. Too many joke answers maybe?
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
Can’t trust anything online
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
In this market they can essentially all collude to treat employees like garbage
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
They’re saving that for the next one
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2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation(layoff-translator.pages.dev)
60 points by ronbenton 4mo ago|14 comments
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
lol how is something so simple both inaccessible (poor color contrast) and not mobile friendly?
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
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);
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
Very happy I had my wife and kids throughout the pandemic and continued remote work since then. I would not have done well otherwise.
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
>Build for developers, not benchmarks That sounds like something you say when you don't benchmark well
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Ask HN: How much is fully agentic coding costing you per month?
2 points by ronbenton 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
I’m shocked I say. Shocked.
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
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.
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
>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&#x
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by ronbenton 4mo ago
Petition to rename this “SlopCop”
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Show HN: Easy Locality Domain Lookup(locality-domains.pages.dev)
2 points by ronbenton 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ronbenton 5mo ago
Hey surely Meta wouldn’t send that data to a government interested in regulating women’s reproductive rights
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by ronbenton 5mo ago
Imagine having the second fastest marathon time ever yet not winning the marathon you ran it in

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