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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
344•yusufusta•2h ago•187 comments

State of Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
180•f_r_d•4h ago•67 comments

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
50•Lwrless•2d ago•2 comments

Fuzix OS

https://www.fuzix.org/
9•DeathArrow•1h ago•2 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
146•RickJWagner•3h ago•146 comments

Michael Rabin has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O._Rabin
264•tkhattra•2d ago•49 comments

Amiga Graphics Archive

https://amiga.lychesis.net/
180•sph•10h ago•38 comments

80386 Memory Pipeline

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_memory_pipeline/
22•wicket•4d ago•2 comments

Category Theory Illustrated – Orders

https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/04_order/
162•boris_m•9h ago•48 comments

Claude Design

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
1134•meetpateltech•1d ago•727 comments

Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-is-discontinuing-kindle-for-pc-on-june-30th
11•tech234a•30m ago•5 comments

Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

https://victorpoughon.github.io/interval-calculator/
244•fouronnes3•15h ago•45 comments

Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/amazon-wont-release-fire-sticks-that-support-sideloading-...
11•pjmlp•19m ago•6 comments

Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you
658•aray07•1d ago•462 comments

A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/a-gentle-introduction-to-z3/
32•y1n0•4d ago•20 comments

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
404•cybermango•22h ago•232 comments

I’m spending months coding the old way

https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand
283•evakhoury•1d ago•272 comments

Towards trust in Emacs

https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2026-04-15-towards-trust-in-emacs.html
152•eshelyaron•3d ago•22 comments

It's OK to compare floating-points for equality

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/its-ok-to-compare-floating-points-for-equality.html
104•coinfused•4d ago•70 comments

The simple geometry behind any road

https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/simple-geometry-of-roads/
92•azhenley•2d ago•9 comments

Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw, human part of being with each other"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/may/05/rational-heroes-sherry-turkle-mit
14•plenched•1h ago•2 comments

Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language

https://lindbakk.com/blog/introducing-brunost
121•atomfinger•4d ago•59 comments

Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)

https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents
271•louiereederson•3d ago•103 comments

"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2

https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetxt-is-not
262•arkadiyt•21h ago•150 comments

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
396•binsquare•23h ago•125 comments

A simplified model of Fil-C

https://www.corsix.org/content/simplified-model-of-fil-c
191•aw1621107•18h ago•104 comments

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794
255•nowflux•1d ago•229 comments

Slop Cop

https://awnist.com/slop-cop
218•ericHosick•1d ago•140 comments

Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant

https://jincongho.com/posts/designing-binary-encodings-for-json-and-variant/
13•jincongho•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock/
226•seanieb•23h ago•102 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

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

Comments

seeknotfind•12mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•12mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•12mo 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•12mo ago
^
mertleee•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•12mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

danielbln•12mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•12mo 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•12mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•12mo 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•12mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•12mo 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