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Show HN: We Build Shareable Context Layer for Agent Teams

Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills. - volcengine/OpenViking

Show HN · EN

Earth's rocks have a missing layer spanning up to a billion years. Scientists finally know what happened to it

The 'Great Unconformity' has puzzled scientists since its discovery in the 1870s

Scientific American · EN

Mesa Merges A Common Vulkan Layer For Working Around Cross-Driver Game Bugs

Merged to Mesa 27.0-devel is a new common Vulkan layer within Mesa's Vulkan Runtime for being able to carry common game/engine/app workarounds that affect multiple drivers...

Phoronix · EN

The Reranker Tax: When a Smart Layer Can't Save a Weak Foundation

Every time you choose to add complexity rather than measure and improve the system you already have, you gamble with your time and your focus. The new component arrives with a tax — latency, cost, more moving parts to operate — and it pays off only when the thing underneath it was already doing its job. Without a solid foundation and good measurement, the upgrade is motion, not progress. This is a post about one instance of that gamble — adding a reranker to a search system — and how the same shape repeats somewhere less obvious: the AI agent you point at a search tool you built. In both cases

Eoin Hurrell · EN