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Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20

https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs
34•kmavm•1h ago•8 comments

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/09/404081/sugar-papers-reveal-industry-role-shifting-national-hear...
685•aldarion•12h ago•407 comments

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

https://tailscale.com/changelog
232•traceroute66•7h ago•93 comments

Eat Real Food

https://realfood.gov
587•atestu•9h ago•906 comments

Play Aardwolf MUD

https://www.aardwolf.com/
71•caminanteblanco•3h ago•23 comments

Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/07/dont-let-the-grocery-store-scan-your-face-a-guide-to-fightin...
130•ptorrone•2h ago•70 comments

Shipmap.org

https://www.shipmap.org/
489•surprisetalk•12h ago•83 comments

How dependabot works

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/02/how-dependabot-actually-works.html
29•zdw•5d ago•0 comments

Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C

https://github.com/kstenerud/Musashi
26•doener•2h ago•1 comments

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-h...
656•kpw94•8h ago•728 comments

The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)

https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/blob/main/docs/vamos.md
17•doener•2h ago•2 comments

NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens

https://socket.dev/blog/npm-to-implement-staged-publishing
136•feross•8h ago•36 comments

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]

https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdf
292•zahrevsky•12h ago•68 comments

Solo ASIC tapeout on a budget: detailed write up

https://old.reddit.com/r/chipdesign/comments/1q4kvxt/solo_asic_tapeout_on_a_budget_detailed_write...
34•random_duck•2d ago•6 comments

Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says

https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2026-01-06/health-care-data-breach-affects-600-000-patients-...
169•toomuchtodo•10h ago•59 comments

The Q, K, V Matrices

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/qkv-matrices/
51•yashsngh•19h ago•27 comments

Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/notion-ai-unpatched-data-exfiltration
118•takira•7h ago•16 comments

LMArena is a cancer on AI

https://surgehq.ai/blog/lmarena-is-a-plague-on-ai
195•jumploops•22h ago•83 comments

We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-...
59•crescit_eundo•6d ago•6 comments

Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser

https://bikemap.nyc/
59•freemanjiang•8h ago•24 comments

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388
1019•kevlened•11h ago•600 comments

GLSL Web CRT Shader

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/glsl-web-crt-shader/
4•msephton•3d ago•1 comments

A4 Paper Stories

https://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.html
301•blenderob•14h ago•148 comments

Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE

https://github.com/reinauer/amifuse
77•doener•4d ago•33 comments

2026 Predictions Scorecard

https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2026-january-01/
34•calvinfo•5h ago•24 comments

“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)

https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html
222•teleforce•14h ago•202 comments

How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-openai-gemini-chatgpt-b766e160
67•jbredeche•10h ago•57 comments

Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/meditation-as-wakeful-relaxation
135•surprisetalk•12h ago•97 comments

Many hells of WebDAV

https://candid.dev/blog/many-hells-of-webdav
133•candiddevmike•11h ago•65 comments

Michel Siffre’s self-experiments in a cave with no light (2018)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931900-400-this-man-spent-months-alone-underground-and-i...
43•Anon84•6d ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•8mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•8mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•8mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•8mo 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•8mo ago
^
mertleee•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•8mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

danielbln•8mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•8mo 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•8mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•8mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•8mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•8mo 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•8mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•8mo 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•8mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•8mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•8mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D