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I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
393•bumbledraven•6h ago•194 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
1801•Kaibeezy•18h ago•578 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
115•tobr•2d ago•19 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
621•cdrnsf•14h ago•151 comments

Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/
17•dalvrosa•9h ago•7 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
722•danpinto•17h ago•209 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
645•zdw•3d ago•133 comments

Our newsroom AI policy

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/
62•zdw•5h ago•44 comments

Isopods of the world

https://isopod.site/
13•debesyla•2d ago•1 comments

The Onion to Take over InfoWars

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
180•lxm•2d ago•57 comments

A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/
84•Prof_Sigmund•2d ago•16 comments

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
371•pella•17h ago•207 comments

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/
290•sethbannon•16h ago•78 comments

Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game

https://tempest.homemade.systems
81•mwenge•9h ago•25 comments

An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road

https://bookdna.com/best-books/silk-road
20•bwb•1d ago•12 comments

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
74•maxloh•8h ago•16 comments

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
267•theorchid•18h ago•69 comments

Parallel agents in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents
232•ajeetdsouza•17h ago•125 comments

Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-playe...
124•wslh•19h ago•160 comments

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
861•mfiguiere•21h ago•397 comments

MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be

https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
28•jen729w•6h ago•12 comments

Plexus P/20 Emulator

https://spritetm.github.io/plexus_20_emu/
20•hggh•3d ago•2 comments

Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms

https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured...
238•t-3•21h ago•65 comments

Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
311•hubraumhugo•20h ago•225 comments

Books are not too expensive

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/no-books-are-not-remotely-too-expensive
58•herbertl•2d ago•68 comments

OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/
76•shpat•10h ago•48 comments

Bring Your Agent to Teams

https://microsoft.github.io/teams-sdk/blog/bring-your-agent-to-teams/
65•umangsehgal93•12h ago•51 comments

Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust

https://verus-lang.github.io/verus/guide/
58•fanf2•2d ago•11 comments

Borrow-checking without type-checking

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/
62•jamii•7h ago•16 comments

Bodega cats of New York

https://bodegacatsofnewyork.com
198•zdw•5d ago•79 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•1y ago

Comments

seeknotfind•1y ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•1y ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•1y 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•1y ago
^
mertleee•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•1y ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

danielbln•1y ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•1y 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•1y ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•1y ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•12mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•1y 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•1y ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•1y 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•1y ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•1y ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•12mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D