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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding?

Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding? 6 by pauletienney | 2 comments on Hacker News. I used to seek focus and concentration while coding. It was not always easy to reach this flow state but I knew it was possible. I am now using agentic coding quite a lot. The honeymoon is finishing and I am starting to dislike some facets of it. I think the main setback is the rythm. Writing some specs/prompts, launching the agent, confirming quite atomic actions and waiting 10 to 30 seconds until the next question/confirmation. Those very small wait times do not let me reach a concentration state. I feel I am hovering the code. I am not deep into it as I used to be. Do you feel the same? Did you find a way to change this?

New ask Hacker News story: Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang)

Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang) 2 by kendallgclark | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m working on a purpose-built memory platform for autonomous AI agents. Right now, agent memory is stuck between two hohum options: RAG (which loses relational topology) and Graph Databases (which require massive pointer chasing and degrade under heavy recursive reasoning). I'm building an alternative using Vector Symbolic Architecture (Hyperdimensional Computing). By mathematically binding facts, sequences, and trees into fixed-size high-dimensional vectors (D=16,384), we can compress complex graph traversals into O(1) constant-time SIMD operations…and do some quasi brain-like stuff cheaply, that is, without GPUs and LLMs. The design is maturing nicely and strictly bifurcated to respect mechanical sympathy: • The Data Plane (Zig): Pure bare-metal math. 2GB memory-mapped NVMe tiles via io_uring. Facts are superposed into lock-free 8-bit accumulators strictly aligned to 64-byte...

New ask Hacker News story: Happy Birthday YC/HN

Happy Birthday YC/HN 5 by ellis0n | 3 comments on Hacker News. Happy 21

New ask Hacker News story: IdeaRank – Startup Analysis Engine

IdeaRank – Startup Analysis Engine 2 by TMDev | 0 comments on Hacker News. IdeaRank helps founders decide which startup idea is actually worth building. You paste an idea into a single, centralized hub and get a brutally honest, AI-generated scorecard with market insights, competitor analysis, risks, and suggestions—backed by real-world data and transparent reasoning. You can save multiple ideas, compare their scores, and quickly see which one deserves your time. Check it out here: https://idearank.netlify.app/

New ask Hacker News story: X is selling existing users' handles

X is selling existing users' handles 38 by hac | 16 comments on Hacker News. I've been on Twitter since 2007 as @hac. In recent years I didn't sign in frequently, then last week I saw my handle show up on the new X Handles marketplace. It seems the account now belongs to X, and because I had a "rare handle" I can't even buy it back. From what I can tell, they will wait for some time and then auction the handle for around $100k. Losing your account is frustrating. Having it sold to someone else doesn't feel right. Of course, there is no warning when it happens. All you can do to prevent it is sign in every 30 days and read all changes to the TOS.

New ask Hacker News story: AI is to software as power tools are to woodworking

AI is to software as power tools are to woodworking 3 by danfunk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Power tools did not remove people. They make woodworking accessible to more people. They make more complex projects possible. They make furniture less expensive. We don't have less jobs because of power tools. And with power tools came a proliferation of hardware stores to support all the people suddenly empowered to try their hand. To take the analogy further, agents are like factories. Yes the drill can do the work on it's own, when it's on an assembly line, getting exactly the right part at the right time at the right angle. But it is insanely hard and expensive to set up a factory, and when it is done, it produces one thing. Shit will change. But that is exactly what I liked about this industry to begin with. And people are highly motivated by fear, so the manipulators and influencers peddle it for all they are worth. There is nothing to fear here. It's just a new kind o...