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Ben Labaschin
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Ben Labaschin writes econoben.dev, a personal blog at benjaminlabaschin.com about ai and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in HN discussion of a personal post about paying off $194k in student loans over six years, and the embedded charts showing student debt figures.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ben Labaschin writes about AI engineering, agents, and memory. Author of Agent Memory, in Early Release from O’Reilly.
What Hacker News says?
The chart is weird/misleading: https://benjaminlabaschin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/gar... Drawing $17xx bar and slapping $1494,97 onto it... whereas other bars match the label with the height. I just couldn't parse how $1,4xx - $1,4yy would end up $408,56. And then in the text there is a number not charted: $1902 to just add to confusion, but OK, that's not what you get on hand. And then "$1106.42 per month, my…
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on “I Paid Off $194k in Student Loans in Six Years. It Wasn’t Easy”Submitted I Paid Off $194k in Student Loans in Six Years. It Wasn’t Easy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat's truly disturbing is the student debt still held by people 50, 60, 70+ years old, as shown in the article's embedded chart: https://benjaminlabaschin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Scr...
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on “I Paid Off $194k in Student Loans in Six Years. It Wasn’t Easy”Submitted Advanced Groupbys with Grouper, Assign, and Query as a story · 3 points
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