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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/
72•PaulHoule•1h ago•33 comments

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban Major New Data Centers

https://www.gadgetreview.com/maine-is-about-to-become-the-first-state-to-ban-major-new-data-centers
118•rmason•1h ago•151 comments

PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement

https://eaw.app/picoz80/
64•rickcarlino•2h ago•10 comments

Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries

https://hegel.dev
54•PaulHoule•2h ago•17 comments

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

https://colaptop.pages.dev/
46•argentum47•2h ago•28 comments

Discovering, detecting, and surgically removing Google's AI watermark

https://github.com/aloshdenny/reverse-SynthID
21•_tk_•51m ago•2 comments

Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

https://aywren.com/2026/04/09/netflix-prices-went-up-again-i-bought-a-dvd-player-instead/
86•speckx•44m ago•101 comments

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

https://aphyr.com/posts/413-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-culture
58•aphyr•7h ago•44 comments

Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again

https://korigamik.dev/blog/bitmap_fonts/
52•speckx•1h ago•34 comments

Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes

https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
75•hopechong•4h ago•36 comments

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

https://www.unfolder.app/
68•codazoda•4h ago•11 comments

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/
11•rickcarlino•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++

https://github.com/randerson112/craft
92•randerson_112•4h ago•83 comments

Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source

https://the.unknown-universe.co.uk/privacy-security/little-snitch-linux/
46•TheIPW•4h ago•17 comments

Top laptops to use with FreeBSD

https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/freebsd-laptop-testing/
238•fork-bomber•11h ago•135 comments

EFF is leaving X

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
811•gregsadetsky•3h ago•709 comments

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/openai_puts_stargate_uk_on/
40•Bender•1h ago•18 comments

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-reallocating-100-month-claude-spend/
245•kisamoto•12h ago•176 comments

Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

https://www.patater.com/files/projects/manual/manual.html
191•medbar•1d ago•35 comments

A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent

https://github.com/jure/webphysics
109•juretriglav•9h ago•14 comments

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us
164•eigenspace•10h ago•99 comments

Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads
486•giuliomagnifico•7h ago•198 comments

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/
38•prismatic•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent

https://cssstudio.ai
124•SirHound•9h ago•86 comments

Open source security at Astral

https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral
338•vinhnx•16h ago•91 comments

Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)

https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/on-building-a-framework-agnostic
45•joemasilotti•2d ago•6 comments

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.0/apr26-1e/donate/
453•playfultones•13h ago•323 comments

Aggro Is the Foundation (2022)

https://radimentary.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/aggro-is-the-foundation/
12•surprisetalk•6d ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated

https://www.relvy.ai
35•behat•8h ago•22 comments

LittleSnitch for Linux

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
1238•pluc•20h ago•406 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•11mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•11mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•11mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•11mo 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•11mo ago
^
mertleee•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•11mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

danielbln•11mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•11mo 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•11mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•11mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•11mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•11mo 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•11mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•11mo 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•11mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•11mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•11mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D