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Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/floppinux-2025.html
36•GalaxySnail•1h ago•9 comments

How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mess-of-ai/
145•salkahfi•5h ago•36 comments

The Codex App

https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
598•meetpateltech•11h ago•413 comments

Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem

https://www.bicameral-ai.com/blog/introducing-bicameral
10•jinhkuan•1h ago•0 comments

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610
310•trms•9h ago•76 comments

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

https://www.githubstatus.com?todayis=2026-02-02
183•bhouston•8h ago•55 comments

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

https://www.millert.dev/
363•wodniok•12h ago•193 comments

Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

http://128.237.157.9/pub/
55•1vuio0pswjnm7•4d ago•10 comments

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

https://tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html
63•tosh•3d ago•14 comments

xAI joins SpaceX

https://www.spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex
596•g-mork•8h ago•1307 comments

See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/
29•Imustaskforhelp•3d ago•43 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

254•whoishiring•13h ago•314 comments

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

https://www.frommers.com/tips/airfare/the-tsa-new-45-fee-to-fly-without-id-is-illegal-says-regula...
329•donohoe•7h ago•338 comments

Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024)

https://www.science.org/content/article/frog-saunas-could-help-endangered-species-beat-deadly-fungus
4•noleary•1h ago•1 comments

Flying Around the World in under 80 Days

https://pinchito.es/2026/avis-lxxx
4•alexfernandez•1d ago•1 comments

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog?

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
79•gyrovague-com•2d ago•36 comments

Hacking Moltbook

https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys
284•galnagli•13h ago•167 comments

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/court-orders-restart-of-all-us-offshore-wind-construction/
303•ck2•7h ago•178 comments

Phenakistoscopes (1833)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/phenakistoscopes-1833/
3•tobr•2d ago•0 comments

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/4x-faster-network-file-sync-rclone-vs-rsync/
283•indigodaddy•4d ago•137 comments

50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates'

https://thenewstack.io/50-years-ago-a-young-bill-gates-took-on-the-software-pirates/
15•MilnerRoute•1d ago•5 comments

Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support

https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-announce/2026-02/msg00000.html
126•cf100clunk•12h ago•164 comments

Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

https://www.joedb.org/index.html
60•mci•3d ago•8 comments

Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?

5•LinguaBrowse•2h ago•1 comments

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/02/firefox-ai-toggle/
139•stalfosknight•5h ago•55 comments

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

https://attheu.utah.edu/health-medicine/banning-lead-in-gas-worked-the-proof-is-in-our-hair/
76•geox•4h ago•9 comments

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works

https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1
231•yz-yu•16h ago•24 comments

Zig Libc

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-01-31
199•ingve•12h ago•81 comments

On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]

https://www.weber.edu/wsuimages/psychology/FacultySites/Horvat/OnBeingSaneInInsanePlaces.PDF
77•dbgrman•12h ago•47 comments

Julia

https://borretti.me/fiction/julia
81•ashergill•6h ago•10 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•9mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•9mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•9mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•9mo 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•9mo ago
^
mertleee•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•9mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

danielbln•9mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•9mo 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•9mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•9mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•9mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•9mo 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•9mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•9mo 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•9mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•9mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•9mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D