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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.05242/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.05242/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction — mentioned by softwaredoug</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465969</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2605.05242:48465969</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:04:34 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;In my research grep is fine if you don’t care about tokens and you have less than 100k files. The direct corpus interaction paper [1] shows a breakdown past this level. In my personal experience you get a bit better relevance than a BM25 search engine with grep plus an agent. But it requires you to eat tokens. If you think grep is great, it’s because you’ve been social engineered to organize your content to be findable. We document why something is useful to an agent. We put it in a logical place. Just organizing content is at least half of building search, agentic or not. It’s one reason…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.05242/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.IR</category></item><item><title>Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113518</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2605.05242:48113518</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:51:41 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Beyond Semantic Similarity&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;68 points; 15 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.05242/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.IR</category></item></channel></rss>
