Articles by ronbenton
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I hope generative AI does away with SEO (pcloadletter.dev)

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Ask HN: How did you make yourself more marketable?

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It's time for WA to ban cellphones in schools statewide at last (seattletimes.com)

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NPM needs an analog to pnpm's minimumReleaseAge and yarn's npmMinimalAgeGate (pcloadletter.dev)

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Make your PR process resilient to AI slop (pcloadletter.dev)

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VotingWorks open source election system (github.com/votingworks)

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Show HN: Made MadLibs-style game to play with my kids (storygaps.org)

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Ask HN: is this a common LLM-assisted development workflow?

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Ask HN: Why are certain communities like Reddit so anti-AI?

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Ask HN: Anyone else see parallels between LLM and internet skepticism?

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Show HN: Hacker News AI link reading list (ai-reading-list.pages.dev)

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Microsoft AI chief says company won't build chatbots for erotica (cnbc.com)

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If AI "slop" scares you, your PR reviews are broken (pcloadletter.dev)

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Ask HN: What software dev tasks have you found LLMs to be good at versus bad at?

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Analytics.USA.gov: U.S. Federal Government Website and App Analytics (usa.gov)

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Digital.gov Communities of Practice (digital.gov)

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AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real (pcloadletter.dev)

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RSS is still pretty great (2024) (pcloadletter.dev)

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Ask HN: What are your go-to websites for honest consumer electronics reviews?

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IRS open sources its fact graph (github.com/irs-public)

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Ask HN: Is Lobste.rs Down?

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Ask HN: Have you left a high paying gig because you hated the day-to-day work?

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SwagChart – The Smarter Way to Swag (swag-charts.vercel.app)

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Ask HN: What are some ways the internet is being used for good?

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United States Digital Service Origins (usdigitalserviceorigins.org)

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[dupe] Saying Goodbye (chrisgiven.com)

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The HTTP Query Method (httpwg.org)

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Generative AI will probably make blogs better (pcloadletter.dev)

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[flagged] Beta.weather.gov (weather.gov)

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Ask HN: Is big tech still more stable?

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Ask HN: Are you skeptical of big tech resumes when hiring for a startup?

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[flagged] Ask HN: Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"?

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Ask HN: What do you think about companies requiring AI use for code interviews?

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Ask HN: Why are startups suddenly branding themselves the "OS" for [thing]?

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You can serialize a promise in React (twofoldframework.com)

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Ask HN: Best and worst jobs of your career and why?

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Know this before choosing Next.js (eduardoboucas.com)

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Ask HN: are "isomorphic" JavaScript frameworks secure? How?

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18F GitHub Repositories (github.com/18f)

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18F – Our Work (gsa.gov)

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18F Has Been Eliminated

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Digital Services Playbook (usds.gov)

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Ask HN: Why do people think text with em dashes indicates LLM generation?

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Dozens of Employees at US Digital Service Dismissed (nextgov.com)

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[flagged] PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA (passnational.org)

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Ask HN: Resource for AI/agent design patterns?

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Musk's DOGE Begins Firing Workers at Federal IT Department (bloomberg.com)

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.gov is hosted on insecure Cloudflare Pages (doge.gov)

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Ask HN: Would you take a "failing upwards" role?

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Ask HN: What are good sources for news and learning gen AI for a noob?

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Ask HN: What interview questions to minimize risk of doomed startup?

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Govsky (govsky.org)

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Ask HN: Is there a true AI pair programmer yet?