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Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
159•Kaibeezy•45m ago•30 comments

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

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
246•mfiguiere•3h ago•128 comments

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456
670•sohkamyung•7h ago•159 comments

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu...
256•xnx•4h ago•134 comments

3.4M Solar Panels

https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html
212•marklit•5h ago•128 comments

Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time

https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured...
121•t-3•3h ago•26 comments

GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

https://cli.github.com/telemetry
278•ingve•5h ago•210 comments

Bodega Cats of New York

https://bodegacatsofnewyork.com
31•zdw•4d ago•12 comments

Columnar Storage Is Normalization

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/
67•ibobev•4h ago•25 comments

Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-company-gets-in-bed-with-zoom-and-tinder-...
71•speckx•1h ago•30 comments

How does GPS work?

https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work
167•alfanick•7h ago•35 comments

Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-14.html
14•theorchid•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud

https://github.com/besimple-oss/broccoli
9•yzhong94•1h ago•4 comments

Making RAM at Home [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA
536•kaipereira•1d ago•152 comments

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/988-youth-suicides-decline.html
42•marojejian•1h ago•8 comments

Another Day Has Come

https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come
124•ndr42•20h ago•108 comments

XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260421-00/?p=112247
149•ingve•10h ago•162 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
7•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly share the same vibe-coded look

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
200•hubraumhugo•2h ago•153 comments

DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser

https://duckdb.org/2026/04/13/announcing-duckdb-152
62•janandonly•2h ago•14 comments

MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation

https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco
87•modinfo•3d ago•18 comments

Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as
263•zdw•17h ago•194 comments

Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma

https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-contact-lens-glaucoma-microfluidics
84•pseudolus•3d ago•2 comments

Expansion Artifacts

https://mattstromawn.com/writing/expansion-artifacts/
21•tobr•1d ago•1 comments

Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

https://fitzgen.com/2024/02/06/safe-gc.html
96•foota•3d ago•40 comments

Prefill-as-a-Service:KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-Datacenter

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15039
37•matt_d•3d ago•1 comments

ChatGPT Images 2.0

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
977•wahnfrieden•22h ago•869 comments

Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/server-2025-arm64/
174•jasoneckert•3d ago•130 comments

Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet
624•nkurz•2d ago•406 comments

All your agents are going async

https://zknill.io/posts/all-your-agents-are-going-async/
108•zknill•2d ago•67 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