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What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role

Current AI agent discourse lacks the governance frameworks (standards, transparency, market competition) that web browsers use to protect user interests against producer incentives.

Saturday, April 25, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline

Article argues that "agentic" AI discourse lacks proper frameworks for representing user interests. Using web browsers as a model, it explains how user agents should balance user and producer interests through transparent standards and market competition, then calls for similar governance structures in AI agent design.

Read original at Hacker News

Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

A 50% PostgreSQL performance cliff on Linux 7.0: AWS engineer traces the regression to the kernel's removal of PREEMPT_NONE and its clash with spinlock-based buffer management.