Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
amadeuswoo Sunday, January 11, 2026Recently built something where simple domain-specific heuristics crushed a fancy ML approach I assumed would win. This has me thinking about how often we reach for complex tools when simpler ones would work better. Occam's razor moments.
Anyone have similar stories? Curious about cases where knowing your domain beat throwing compute at the problem.
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