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LittleSnitch for Linux

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
692•pluc•8h ago•200 comments

Open Source Security at Astral

https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral
172•vinhnx•5h ago•30 comments

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
1562•blkhp19•17h ago•272 comments

Haunted Paper Toys

http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
74•exvi•2d ago•1 comments

The Importance of Being Idle

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
174•Caiero•2d ago•88 comments

Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

https://botctl.dev/
31•ankitg12•3h ago•6 comments

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6
28•kristianp•4d ago•9 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/
293•WerWolv•13h ago•36 comments

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

https://kalmanfilter.net
335•alex_be•16h ago•44 comments

They're made out of meat (1991)

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
534•surprisetalk•21h ago•147 comments

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
483•jfirebaugh•1d ago•539 comments

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

https://www.perfectlynormal.co.uk/blog-kl-divergence
74•jxmorris12•1d ago•9 comments

ML promises to be profoundly weird

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
495•pabs3•20h ago•486 comments

Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
2032•grepsedawk•1d ago•431 comments

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
339•chabons•17h ago•327 comments

Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/improving-storage-efficiency-in-magic-pocket-our-immutable-bl...
8•laluser•5d ago•0 comments

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091
294•chrsw•21h ago•54 comments

I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit

https://oseifert.ch/blog/linux-kernel-pgit
127•ImGajeed76•3d ago•18 comments

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
113•frizlab•13h ago•52 comments

Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands

https://sanderdesnaijer.github.io/map-gesture-controls/
27•hebelehubele•4d ago•4 comments

Understanding Traceroute

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/
128•stonecharioteer•3d ago•21 comments

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

360•e-topy•3d ago•530 comments

Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes

https://github.com/meribold/btry
34•meribold•2d ago•8 comments

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
305•CharlesW•12h ago•93 comments

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/teardown-of-unreleased-lg-rollable-shows-why-rollable-pho...
105•DamnInteresting•1d ago•47 comments

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led
227•surprisetalk•1d ago•63 comments

Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

https://www.ishormuzopenyet.com/
395•anonfunction•11h ago•162 comments

Union types in C# 15

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-15-union-types/
202•0x00C0FFEE•4d ago•184 comments

Veracrypt project update

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
1214•super256•1d ago•446 comments

I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropic-support-doesnt-exist/
361•nickvec•15h ago•174 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•11mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•11mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•11mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•11mo ago
The bigger picture goal here is to explore using prompts to generate new prompts

I see this as the same as a reasoning loop. This is the approach I use to quickly code up pseudo reasoning loops on local projects. Someone had asked in another thread "how can I get the LLM to generate a whole book", well, just like this. If it can keep prompting itself to ask "what would chapter N be?" until "THE END", then you get your book.

2099miles•11mo ago
^
mertleee•11mo ago
"Foundational AI companies love this one trick"

It's part of why they love agents and tools like cursor -> turns a problem that could've been one prompt and a few hundred tokens into dozens of prompts and thousands of tokens ;)

danielbln•11mo ago
It's be nice if I could solve any problem by speccing it out in its entirety and then just implement. In reality, I have to iterate and course correct, as do agentic flows. You're right that the AI labs love it though, iterating like that is expensive.
NooneAtAll3•11mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•11mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•11mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•11mo ago
Crazy that OpenAI only launched o1 in September 2024. Some of these ideas have been swirling for a while but it feels like we're in a special moment where they're getting turned into products.
mentalgear•11mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•11mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•11mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•11mo ago
I feel that often getting LLMs to do things like mathematical problems or citation is much harder than simply writing software to achieve that same task.
kordlessagain•11mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•11mo ago
This is kind of like a self generating agentic context.. cool. I think regular agents, especially adversarial agents, are easier to get focused on most types of problems though.

Still clever.

mentalgear•11mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•11mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•11mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D