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Knowledge Fight: The End of the Road

https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/
1•cosmicgadget•48s ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Use Discourse in Another Language

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/05/what-its-actually-like-to-use-discourse-in-another-language/
1•joanwestenberg•3m ago•0 comments

Code Was Never for Machines – Until Now

https://skiplabs.io/blog/future_of_tools_for_ai
1•vinipolicena•5m ago•0 comments

Delta: Browser-based F1 pit wall with 3D replay and telemetry compare

https://github.com/misha-met/Delta
1•misham21412•9m ago•1 comments

Shelley: Mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal, single-user coding agent

https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley
1•indigodaddy•13m ago•0 comments

Optical Storage in 2026: Dead or Dead Useful? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX2SPQEPlk8
2•dsego•15m ago•0 comments

Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return

https://hbr.org/2026/03/researchers-asked-llms-for-strategic-advice-they-got-trendslop-in-return
1•johnbarron•16m ago•1 comments

Recapping Cap Table?

2•survivorhero•18m ago•0 comments

The Quest to Chart the Sea

https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2025/12/22/the-quest-to-chart-the-sea
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dust3D 1.0 – low-poly 3D modeling tool (10 years in the making)

https://dust3d.org
3•huxingyi•18m ago•0 comments

Authentication Flaw in Totolink N300RH Enables Remote Buffer Overflow

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7747
1•abdullahalharir•21m ago•0 comments

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/microsoft_reverses_ai_credit_grab/
2•AgentNews•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What product failed for you–and what went wrong?

2•xnslx•22m ago•0 comments

New Zealand passes solar tipping point

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/594242/new-zealand-passes-solar-tipping-point
4•billybuckwheat•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Smile-Serve – Inference Server for ML, ONNX, and LLM

https://github.com/haifengl/smile/tree/master/serve
2•haifeng•24m ago•0 comments

What do we lose when AI does our work?

https://rickyyean.com/2026/05/04/what-do-we-lose-when-ai-does-our-work/
8•rickyyean•29m ago•0 comments

Best practices for password hashing and storage (SASL)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-password-storage/10/
2•DASD•29m ago•0 comments

The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis (2025)

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-elite-overproduction-hypothesis-994
2•ridiculous_leke•34m ago•0 comments

China is an engineers' country, but US and Germany are now lawyers' countries

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202605/1360255.shtml
2•e2e4•36m ago•3 comments

Quantum in Biology, Quantum for Biology, and Biology for Quantum

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00205
1•mathgenius•38m ago•0 comments

Filen deleted all of my data. A heads-up for others

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/S592zuF3Ub
3•nixass•40m ago•0 comments

Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption

https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/04/apple-confirms-ios-26-5-messages-app-adds-rcs-end-to-end-encryption/
5•latchkey•41m ago•0 comments

The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35132
2•goplayoutside•44m ago•1 comments

Zopfli Optimization – Free Bandwidth (2016)

https://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-free-bandwidth/
1•tracker1•45m ago•1 comments

YouTube now has customizable multiview

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-tv-customizable-multiview-how-to-make-3660768/
1•andsoitis•46m ago•0 comments

Agent Skills

https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/
4•BOOSTERHIDROGEN•46m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Data Storage on Fractals

1•zipotm•47m ago•0 comments

Finance OS – self-hosted personal finance tracker, no bank credentials required

https://github.com/aiden202023/finance-os
1•atlguys18•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Layers – AI skills for deep product design

https://layers.jamiemill.com/
3•jm25•52m ago•0 comments

Moop: A free and open-source image optimizer for macOS

https://zrubinrattet.github.io/moop/
1•thebigship•52m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?

6•laxmena•1h ago
Industry is increasingly moving towards complex, autonomous agentic loops and feedback chains. They obviously comes with significant latency, non-determinism, low-accuracy and cost.

I'm interested in hearing from engineers who have moved in the opposite direction.

At what point in your product lifecycle did you decide that agentic approach was wrong tool for the job?

What was the specific failure mode (reliability, cost, latency, maintainability) pushed you to replace agentic loop with more deterministic system/pipeline?

Comments

mickelsen•35m ago
When you have a flow well defined, like transactions going on, it simply doesn't scale. But AI can then be used for analysis, alerts and investigating failures of such processes very nicely. Agents can also be used to prepare a transaction package that needs more human input, like a customer service case, but again with clearly defined outcomes. At least that's what I've seen in my limited experience consulting for a local online retailer.