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Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state?
I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s currently called “agentic AI”. Many systems try to achieve agent-like behavior through planning, tool use, orchestration layers, or increasingly careful prompting. In practice, what I keep running into is that these systems don’t fail because models can’t reason or plan, but because they lack stable state. Without persistent state, coherence has to be re-established every turn. The result is longer prompts, retrieval pipelines, guardrails, and corrective ins
Ask HN: What happens to world economics when humanity reaches triade?
Hey folks, I'm intrigued by the consequences of what do you think it will happen to the global economy when humanity reaches these buzzword state-of-the-art technologies, like AGI, Quantum Computing and Robotics?<p>I mean when those things becomes so accessible and cheap that it will be considered a commodity<p>What do you think will happen to our society?
The Time Spiral:How Quantum Error Correction Enabled Faster-Than-Light Signaling
They eventually stopped arguing about whether the past could be changed. That debate belonged to an earlier phase, when spacetime was treated as sacred and causality as something that required paradox-prevention mechanisms. Grandfather paradoxes, self-consistency constraints, closed timelike curves. All of it assumed a universe that demanded a single, globally coherent history.The civilization that finally exploited faster-than-light signaling learned something different. History did not need to
Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
Thread for 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42509408Thread for 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613Thread for 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33873800Here are mine:Technical skills:- Among my last year's goals was to take on VR dev, which sadly I did not get to. Punting it to 2026. I'm thinking to get the Samsung Galaxy XR and experiment with some VR apps and learn the fundamentals of spatial computing. As
Show HN: After 37 failed interviews, I built the prep tool I wish I had
Hey HN, I’m Ilyas.For 18 months, I was stuck in a loop: apply, interview, reject. Repeat. I sent over 1,000 applications and failed 37 interviews.The frustrating part? I wasn't failing complex algorithm challenges. I was failing basic questions like “What are React portals?” or “Explain GET in HTTP”.I knew the answers, but under pressure, my mind went blank. I realized my problem wasn't understanding—it was remembering.At first I used ChatGPT to help me create flashcards. But with time
Show HN: I Patched Agents SDK to Work with React Native
For the last two weeks, I was struggling to make Agents SDK work with React-Native. The problem is they never made support for it. After two weeks of trying different approaches, using a server as a proxy, or trying to make my own web socket, I almost gave up. Then I decided to do a little bit of digging and found out that actually someone in July tried to propose a PR with a fix to make React-Native work with Agents SDK. However, the maintainers ghosted that PR. After some digging, I have made
Show HN: I created interactive buttons for chatbots
It's about to be 2026 and we're still stuck in the CLI era when it comes to chatbots. So, I created an open source library called Quint.
Quint is a small React library that lets you build structured, deterministic interactions on top of LLMs. Instead of everything being raw text, you can define explicit choices where a click can reveal information, send structured input back to the model, or do both, with full control over where the output appears.
Quint only manages state and behavior
It Can Apply and Positive in Favor the Newton III Law on an Engine System Device
3rd Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at From of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1/Action, + 2/Reaction = Retrodynamic. / For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 2 Forces in 1 System.RETRODYNAMIC Effect - Dextrogiro/Action => vs <= Levogiro/Reaction Phenomena Effect. / Rotor/RPM VS InFlow/Way. 3d Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plan
Show HN: Pytest-httpdbg – a simple way to include HTTP traces in Allure reports
Hi HN,I recently updated my pytest plugin based on httpdbg to include the HTTP traces directly in the Allure reports. As with httpdbg, the idea is to have nothing more to do than to add an argument to your command line: --httpdbg-allure.For example:pytest examples/pytest_demo.py --alluredir=./allure-results --httpdbg-allureFor each test, all HTTP requests will be recorded and saved in the Allure report under a step named httpdbg.You can check the README in the repository to see how it
Show HN: Tusk Drift – Open-source tool for automating API tests
Hey HN, I'm Marcel from Tusk. We’re launching Tusk Drift, an open source tool that generates a full API test suite by recording and replaying live traffic.How it works:1. Records traces from live traffic (what gets captured)2. Replays traces as API tests with mocked responses (how replay works)3. Detects deviations between actual vs. expected output (what you get)Unlike traditional mocking libraries, which require you to manually emulate how dependencies behave, Tusk Drift automatically rec
Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database (update)
Hi HN, I’m Sandhya and we have built Visual DB — a web front end for databases. It lets you create data-entry forms, spreadsheet-like grids, and reports directly on top of your existing relational database.Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://youtu.be/4zv_HQKdKeI (13 minutes)WHAT PROBLEM IS THIS SOLVING?Building CRUD apps with master-detail forms, transactions, and proper concurrency controls typically requires weeks of custom development and ongoing maintenance. Visual DB lets you
Show HN: WorkBill – Modern Alternative to QuickBooks
Hi HN, I am Aswin Mohan(https://aswinmohan.me), a full-stack mobile/web developer. I have been working on WorkBill (https://workbill.co) for the past 6 weeks on the side and wanted to share it here.demo: https://demo.workbill.co/inbox (no signup needed)
video-demo: https://www.loom.com/share/9775811960ad47d7ada89007d8169d90WorkBill is the modern, flexible accounting platform for small businesses. It is based on BeanCount(https:/&#x
Show HN: OgBlocks – Animated UI Library for CSS Haters
Hey HN,I'm Karan, a frontend developer who loves creating UIs, but I've found that many people don't like CSS, but they want their website to look beautiful and polished, and what better way to enhance a website than with animationsAnimations using plain CSS are tricky, and that's why I leaned towards Motion
a powerful animation library for React, and I built ogBlocks using React, Motion, and Tailwind CSSI built it for three reasons:1. Anyone can integrate beautiful animated
Show HN: C-Minus Preprocessor v2
About 3 years ago i wrote a custom preprocessor to assist in processing the SQLite project's JavaScript builds (e.g. filtering the small differences between vanilla JS and ESM modules). Recently, that app was forked, refactored into a library, and is now, AFAIK, the world's only source-agnostic[^1], client-extensible preprocessor (if one doesn't count sed, awk, etc.).It's implemented in portable C99 and has a two-file source distribution (one header, one .c file). Its only th
Show HN: ClientDock – Client portal built on Cloudflare Workers
Hi HN,I built ClientDock - a client portal for service providers to manage communications and files without email chaos.Background:
After losing a critical client deliverable in a 200+ email thread, I decided to build a better solution. Most "client portals" are bloated project management tools. I wanted something focused on one thing: making client communication effortless.Technical Details:
- Built with Next.js 15 (App Router)
- Deployed on Cloudflare Workers using OpenNext adapter
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Show HN: mDNS name resolution for Docker container names
I always wanted this: an easy way to reach "resolve docker container by name" -- e.g., to reach web servers running in Docker containers on my dev machine. Of course, I could export ports from all these containers, try to keep them out of each others hair on the host, and then use http://localhost:PORT. But why go through all that trouble? These containers already expose their respective ports on their own IP (e.g., 172.24.0.5:8123), so all I need is a convenient way to find
Is Trump really giving out $2000 to Americans? US President gives latest update on leftover funds, netizens react
Trump on Monday reiterated his plan, informing that “all money left over from the $2000 payments” will be “used to substantially pay down national debt.” ...
Tyrese Maxey, Sixers react to Trendon Watford's big night vs. Raptors
Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers react to Trendon Watford's big night in a win over the Toronto Raptors.
Blame-game: Lawmakers react to the record-long government shutdown and resulting flight delays and cancellations
Members of Congress from North Texas expressed concerns about the reductions of flights at Dallas Love Field, DFW ...
Family of couple killed in crash react to suspect’s arrest: ‘This tragedy didn’t have to happen’
Investigators determined the suspect was going more than twice the posted speed limit at the time of the crash.