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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

https://performance.dev/how-is-linear-so-fast-a-technical-breakdown
251•howToTestFE•4h ago•133 comments

Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/building-from-zero-after-addiction-prison-felony
297•gavinray•5h ago•149 comments

Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

https://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/pancakes/
68•bkazez•2d ago•26 comments

Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)

https://nik.art/making-peace-with-your-unlived-dreams/
114•herbertl•5h ago•49 comments

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18154/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-lostfound-folder-in-lin...
116•tosh•2d ago•46 comments

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html
67•elpocko•6h ago•19 comments

Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs?

https://blog.ydb.tech/do-we-fear-the-serializable-isolation-level-more-than-we-fear-subtle-bugs-5...
37•b-man•4d ago•18 comments

A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned

https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2026/05/press20260512-02-DMR.html
19•mhb•5d ago•12 comments

My automated doubt development process

https://www.alexself.dev/blog/automated-doubt
47•aself101•5h ago•17 comments

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

https://human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev/llms-are-eroding-my-software-engineering-career-and-i-dont...
765•poisonfountain•11h ago•735 comments

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

https://www.ioccc.org/2025/
354•matt_d•18h ago•86 comments

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe
221•devenjarvis•12h ago•41 comments

Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack

https://blog.brixit.nl/cloning-a-sennheiser-ba2015-accu-pack/
99•zdw•1d ago•17 comments

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514
89•ketchup32613•4h ago•81 comments

Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser

https://github.com/yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer
111•maxloh•6h ago•42 comments

VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system

https://vibeos.sh/
19•doener•2h ago•15 comments

Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
72•flexagoon•5d ago•5 comments

Crashing cars and improving hover detection

https://motion.dev/magazine/collision-detection-in-hover-detection
4•azhenley•3d ago•2 comments

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged
17•Bender•1h ago•1 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•6h ago

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697
434•predkambrij•10h ago•247 comments

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-isnt-the-us-better-at-soccer
53•7777777phil•4h ago•129 comments

Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)

https://blog.podman.io/2025/10/podman-6-machine-usability-improvements/
92•daesorin•9h ago•6 comments

A visual introduction to kernel functions

https://kelvinpaschal.com/blog/kernel-functions/
24•Kelvinidan•2d ago•2 comments

Splash Is a Colour Format

https://www.todepond.com/lab/splash/
46•tobr•4d ago•62 comments

An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/an-ohio-valley-100000-watt-fm-signal-is-se...
137•pkaeding•22h ago•127 comments

I design with Claude more than Figma now

https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/
245•MrBuddyCasino•18h ago•223 comments

The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o
101•Brajeshwar•7h ago•115 comments

Win16 Memory Management

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/win16-memory-management/
126•supermatou•2d ago•67 comments

The complete IPv4 address space, mapped

https://worldip.io/
31•theanonymousone•5h ago•14 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•1y 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•1y ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D