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USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
136•gwerbret•3h ago•42 comments

Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
30•chiefalchemist•56m ago•4 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
262•robinhouston•3d ago•48 comments

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
520•stephen-hill•3d ago•86 comments

OpenAI Privacy Filter

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
66•tanelpoder•3d ago•14 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
61•sleepyguy•5h ago•66 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
170•speckx•8h ago•103 comments

Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software

https://www.feldera.com/blog/ai-agents-arent-coworkers-embed-them-in-your-software
17•gz09•1h ago•1 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
74•pavel_lishin•3d ago•43 comments

Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/your-money/fidelity-investments-fraud-alert.html
14•danso•1h ago•8 comments

Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/
22•Nrbelex•3d ago•4 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
544•calcifer•19h ago•315 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
90•thehappyfellow•7h ago•32 comments

Math Is Hard

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html
21•signa11•2d ago•0 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/
67•varjag•7h ago•16 comments

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
53•ffin•1d ago•8 comments

Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
100•martey•5d ago•17 comments

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3669940.3707274
7•tosh•2d ago•0 comments

What async promised and what it delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
149•zdw•3d ago•170 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
160•ingve•14h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

https://getkloak.io/
41•neo2006•6h ago•35 comments

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

https://lute.luau.org/
58•vrn-sn•3d ago•9 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
127•Murfalo•10h ago•97 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
146•adunk•13h ago•26 comments

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862
95•jstrieb•4h ago•75 comments

Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116460505717380644
25•terminalbraid•2h ago•1 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
48•jxmorris12•1d ago•8 comments

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board
354•skullone•2h ago•174 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
49•wslh•3d ago•20 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
110•mariuz•14h ago•42 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