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Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/
157•user5994461•3h ago•90 comments

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html
24•tosh•2h ago•15 comments

You can't pay me to prompt

https://dbushell.com/2025/06/18/ai-policy/
6•shinryuu•41m ago•5 comments

Internet Archive's Storage

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/01/internet-archives-storage.html
196•zdw•3d ago•46 comments

When employees feel slighted, they work less

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-wharton-when-employees-feel-slighted-they-work-less
10•consumer451•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue

86•io_eric•3d ago•33 comments

Unrolling the Codex agent loop

https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/
374•tosh•16h ago•173 comments

I Like GitLab

https://www.whileforloop.com/en/blog/2026/01/21/i-like-gitlab/
17•lukas346•2h ago•9 comments

80386 Multiplication and Division

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_multiplication_and_division/
62•nand2mario•7h ago•13 comments

Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space

https://maxwell.eurofusion.eu/git/rnhmjoj/modetc
28•todsacerdoti•5h ago•13 comments

Proof of Corn

https://proofofcorn.com/
407•rocauc•19h ago•276 comments

Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg

https://bloomberg.github.io/crane/
67•clarus•4d ago•4 comments

Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]

https://www.med.unc.edu/uncaims/wp-content/uploads/sites/764/2014/03/Oncken-_-Wass-Who_s-Got-the-...
13•rintrah•4d ago•1 comments

Traintrackr – Live LED Maps

https://www.traintrackr.co.uk/
61•recursion•5d ago•22 comments

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
351•pavel_lishin•21h ago•362 comments

Some C habits I employ for the modern day

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-habits-for-me.html
179•signa11•5d ago•103 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring eng, design, growth [on-site, Berlin]

https://careers.telli.com/
1•sebselassie•6h ago

“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5683170/let-them-the-small-bit-of-advice-that-made-a-big-dif...
84•NaOH•10h ago•14 comments

Banned C++ features in Chromium

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/styleguide/c++/c++-features.md
197•szmarczak•16h ago•161 comments

Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance

https://comma.ai
302•JumpCrisscross•12h ago•163 comments

Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

183•dsrtslnd23•1d ago•45 comments

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock...
907•bookofjoe•19h ago•578 comments

New YC homepage

https://www.ycombinator.com/
266•sarreph•19h ago•139 comments

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
325•yesturi•1d ago•110 comments

Mental Models (2018)

https://fs.blog/mental-models/
105•hahahacorn•16h ago•14 comments

Proton spam and the AI consent problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
523•dbushell•1d ago•377 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
243•bpierre•22h ago•108 comments

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

https://blog.cloudflare.com/route-leak-incident-january-22-2026/
156•nomaxx117•19h ago•50 comments

The tech monoculture is finally breaking

http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/
210•at1as•21h ago•281 comments

Air Pollution in World: Real-Time Air Quality Index Visual Map

https://aqicn.org/map/world/
5•leksak•2h ago•1 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