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Using AI to write better code more slowly

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/
362•signa11•6h ago•136 comments

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk
180•bilsbie•6h ago•66 comments

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up

https://earthiongame.com/
15•MrBuddyCasino•1h ago•3 comments

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/
131•subract•6h ago•13 comments

Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-l...
215•rbanffy•9h ago•110 comments

Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/
5•pretext•42m ago•0 comments

Ferrari Luce

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce
149•jumploops•8h ago•309 comments

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout
311•Cider9986•11h ago•57 comments

Does anybody like React?

https://jsx.lol
111•brazukadev•3h ago•128 comments

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-ag...
773•rbanffy•11h ago•334 comments

The User Is Visibly Frustrated

https://pscanf.com/s/354/
4•croes•48m ago•0 comments

Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died

https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Suzuki-Toshifumi-1932.html
166•L_Rahman•13h ago•61 comments

Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

https://9to5google.com/2026/05/25/motorola-amazon-app-hijacking-behavior/
35•Cider9986•1h ago•9 comments

Designing for and against the manufactured normalcy field (2012)

https://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/06/24/designing-for-and-against-the-manufactured...
15•nvader•4h ago•5 comments

Squares in Squares

https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
53•carlos-menezes•1d ago•4 comments

Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

https://github.com/yugr/rust-slides/
39•tanelpoder•5h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C

https://github.com/boratanrikulu/gobee
70•boratanrikulu•4d ago•32 comments

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard

https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism
129•obscurette•14h ago•121 comments

What it takes to transpose a matrix

https://gudok.xyz/transpose/
24•tosh•1d ago•0 comments

Hacker News front page as a site

https://thefrontpage.dev/
185•thatxliner•9h ago•60 comments

Dehydration's role in learning and memory

https://www.cshl.edu/dehydrations-role-in-learning-and-memory/
19•hhs•3d ago•7 comments

Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

https://unix.foo/posts/nobody-cracks-open-a-programming-book/
146•zdw•6h ago•168 comments

Why the smart home bubble popped

https://hackaday.com/2026/05/21/why-the-smart-home-bubble-popped/
22•lxm•1h ago•31 comments

CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude

https://support.apple.com/en-us/127115
111•dragonsenseiguy•5h ago•49 comments

Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer

https://github.com/tantara/openbrief
39•tantara•7h ago•5 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave
1•adchurch•11h ago

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

https://lemon.rip/w/6-c-extensions-compilers/
148•xngbuilds•15h ago•49 comments

The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery
28•jxmorris12•3d ago•14 comments

A Comma and a Question Mark

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/a-comma-and-a-question-mark
12•eigenBasis•3d ago•4 comments

Jensen–Shannon Divergence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%E2%80%93Shannon_divergence
91•teleforce•3d ago•15 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