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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-l...
408•haunter•3d ago•257 comments

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
446•speckx•8h ago•143 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
223•laurentlb•4d ago•174 comments

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/medicares-new-payment-model-is-built-for-ai-and-most-of-the-tec...
25•brandonb•1h ago•16 comments

In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-exami...
186•bookofjoe•3h ago•238 comments

Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

70•pycassa•1h ago•21 comments

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/
48•Eswo•2d ago•10 comments

Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion

https://www.jackhogan.me/blog/marco-polo
7•jackhogan11•2d ago•0 comments

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
148•rdslw•16h ago•103 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy
138•andsoitis•3d ago•61 comments

S-100 Virtual Workbench

https://grantmestrength.github.io/S100/
92•rbanffy•7h ago•19 comments

How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?

https://asymco.com/2026/05/11/the-great-memory-panic-of-2026/
61•tambourine_man•2d ago•28 comments

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

https://www.tryardent.com/
58•vc289•6h ago•20 comments

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html
144•akrylov•9h ago•389 comments

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
248•jnord•1d ago•172 comments

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/
37•speckx•4h ago•13 comments

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
126•tosh•4h ago•99 comments

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
184•curiousgal•4d ago•71 comments

"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage

https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-...
142•ceejayoz•4h ago•99 comments

New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260510030950.htm
283•HardwareLust•2d ago•135 comments

Making the news available at no cost is a victory

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/12/just-days-tribune-reporting/
95•danso•4h ago•102 comments

An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins

https://magnusross.github.io/posts/protein-lead-optimisation-1/
131•magni121•2d ago•11 comments

Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/
509•jorijn•10h ago•272 comments

Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/929091/meta-ai-threads-account-block
62•logickkk1•2h ago•23 comments

Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving

https://algorithmicpattern.org/2026/03/11/exploring-8-shaft-weaving/
17•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter
199•dmitrygr•2d ago•40 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
628•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•180 comments

Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/substrate/jobs/T2fMBhD-technical-success-manager
1•kunle•11h ago

Comparing a 1980s memory map to the Raspi Pico

https://medium.com/@noborutakahashi/a-40-year-old-memory-map-comparable-to-todays-raspberry-pi-pi...
7•Schlagbohrer•3d ago•0 comments

I moved my digital stack to Europe

https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/
856•monokai_nl•11h ago•528 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