Stories by ronbenton

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

IRS tax withholding estimator has been open sourced

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

Quality is a hard sell in big tech

Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?

The Birthday Paradox, Simulated

Pre-Agent Nostalgia

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

Features for no one (AI edition)

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

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

Cool project, will you actually maintain it?

Software Craftsmanship Is Dead

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

I hope generative AI does away with SEO

Ask HN: How did you make yourself more marketable?

It's time for WA to ban cellphones in schools statewide at last

NPM needs an analog to pnpm's minimumReleaseAge and yarn's npmMinimalAgeGate

Make your PR process resilient to AI slop

VotingWorks open source election system

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