Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
5 by axotopia | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple service questions, and me wasting hours on the same FAQs. So I killed it all and spent 4 months building a 'talker': https://axoworks.com The stack is completely duct-taped: Netlify’s 10s serverless timeout forced me to split the agent into three pieces: Brain (Edge), Hands (Browser), and Voice (Edge). I haven’t coded in 30 years. This was 3 steps forward, 2 steps back, heavily guided by AI. The fight that proved it worked: 2 weeks ago, a licensed architect attacked the bot, trying to prove my business model harms the profession. The AI (DeepSeek-R3) completely dismantled his arguments. It was hilariously caustic. Log: https://ift.tt/BsFleQ5... A few battle scars: * Web Speech API works fine, right up until someone speaks Chinese without toggling the language mode. Then it forcefully spits out English phonetic gibberish. Still a headache. * Liability is the killer. Hallucinate a building code clause? We’re dead. Insurance won’t touch us. * We publish the audit logs to keep ourselves honest and make sure the system stays hardened. Audit: https://ift.tt/FQAgSMv The hardest part was getting the intent right: making one LLM pivot seamlessly from a warm principal’s tone with a homeowner, to a defensive bulldog when attacked by a peer. That took 2.5 months of tuning. We burn through tokens with an 'Eager RAG' hack (pre-fetching guesses) just to improve responsiveness. I also ripped out the “essential” persistent DBs—less than 5% of visitors ever return, so why bother? If a client drops mid-query, their session vanishes. No server-side queues. The point: To let me operate with a network of seasoned pros, and trim the fat. Try to break it. I’ll be in the comments. Kee
Thursday, 19 March 2026
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New top story on Hacker News: 2025 Turing award given for quantum information science
2025 Turing award given for quantum information science
21 by srvmshr | 4 comments on Hacker News.
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21 by srvmshr | 4 comments on Hacker News.
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Tuesday, 17 March 2026
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
18 by svara | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Comment sections on AI threads tend to split into "we're all cooked" and "AI is useless." I'd like to cut through the noise and learn what's actually working and what isn't, from concrete experience. If you've recently used AI tools for professional coding work, tell us about it. What tools did you use? What worked well and why? What challenges did you hit, and how (if at all) did you solve them? Please share enough context (stack, project type, team size, experience level) for others to learn from your experience. The goal is to build a grounded picture of where AI-assisted development actually stands in March 2026, without the hot air.
18 by svara | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Comment sections on AI threads tend to split into "we're all cooked" and "AI is useless." I'd like to cut through the noise and learn what's actually working and what isn't, from concrete experience. If you've recently used AI tools for professional coding work, tell us about it. What tools did you use? What worked well and why? What challenges did you hit, and how (if at all) did you solve them? Please share enough context (stack, project type, team size, experience level) for others to learn from your experience. The goal is to build a grounded picture of where AI-assisted development actually stands in March 2026, without the hot air.
Saturday, 14 March 2026
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input
Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input
11 by adangit | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Sharing a friends first-ever Rails application, dedicated to Arabic learning, from 0 to 1. Pulls language learning methods from Anki, comprehensible input and more.
11 by adangit | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Sharing a friends first-ever Rails application, dedicated to Arabic learning, from 0 to 1. Pulls language learning methods from Anki, comprehensible input and more.
Friday, 13 March 2026
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