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Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
1•jbegley•2m ago•0 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net
1•dallen97•10m ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
1•PaulHoule•11m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
1•y1n0•13m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
1•tolerance•13m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•13m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
2•linkdd•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•19m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•20m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/
1•neuling•24m ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en
1•aqeisi•25m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•26m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/ai-overviews-are-killing-the-web-search-and-theres-nothing-we-c...
3•bundie•31m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

https://theconversation.com/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress-267763
3•gnabgib•32m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•36m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
2•y1n0•37m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
4•calebhwin•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•57m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•57m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
2•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•1h ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•1h ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
4•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Are we at the point where software can improve itself?

1•ManuelKiessling•5h ago
Putting this out here to hear if you think this is feasible and/or useful, but also to find out if this is yesterday's news and everybody is already doing it.

So here is the gist of it: Imagine a user-facing software that is out there in the world, doing its thing. Doesn't have to be anything fancy for this example, let's say an inventory management system called Foo, used by several hundred people a day.

Now imagine you set up a kind of "loop" that works like this:

Every 24 hours, a Coding Agent launches, with the following prompt:

"Here is the codebase for application Foo. Over there are all application and system logs that Foo produced over the past 24 hours. Over here are all emails that went to support@foo-app.com in the past 24 hours. Over here is all UI telemetry that Foo collected: where users clicked, where they scrolled to, etc. Over there is the current database snapshot of Foo. Here is the document that describes the business goals of Foo, and the basic limitations (legal, financial) in which it needs to operate.

This is your mission: analyze all these inputs, analyze the codebase — and then create Pull Requests with the three most pressing improvements that make Foo a better software for its users, based on your analysis."

Yes, there's a ton of details I'm glossing over, and yet: shouldn't something like this lead to some kind of fully automatic improvement of software Foo over time?

Software is used, produces telemetry, Agent analyzes telemetry, improves software according to what the telemetry says, new software version is used, produces telemetry...

Comments

AnimalMuppet•4h ago
Without a human in the loop?

If you did that today, what percentage of the time would the change improve the software? What percent of the time would it make it worse (security, usability, accuracy, or whatever)?

I think that today, this approach would work on some days. Some days it would fail, perhaps catastrophically. (I don't know the percentages, though. Does anyone have enough experience to comment?)

ManuelKiessling•3h ago
You can still put a human in the loop of course, only merging PRs that are actually an improvement.
duxup•4h ago
I struggle with some folks impressions of AI vs my experience.

I was working with it last night and it would create a function, and almost immediately delete it and things wouldn't work. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Like right there in your own code man you're calling a non existent function... how did you even "know" what parameters to send it?

Sure I can get a bit of a nice greenfield project going, and some focused changes if I can put blinders on it and hold AI's hand. But after that I'm prompting it to put back code it deletes for no known reason. It seems to lose focus and think it is working on something else ... forget initial guidelines.

Code also has built in assumptions that aren't apparent and AI does not seem to care. This is hard for humans, but also seemingly impossible for AI. "We handle our X,Y,Z like A,B,C for reasons." only seems to keep AI on the ball for a short bit of time. AI has no ability to UNDERSTAND "oh yeah that will blow up because L,M,N" like a human does, and no matter how foolish the prompt AI will do it.