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This paper has been cited more than 6k times. It's fatally flawed.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/
244•timr•5h ago•102 comments

Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality

https://netzbremse.de/en/
367•tietjens•5h ago•191 comments

Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

https://bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com
50•sgottit•2h ago•6 comments

ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/ann-v3
18•_peregrine_•3d ago•4 comments

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes

https://dlt.github.io/blog/posts/introduction-to-postgresql-indexes/
114•dlt•6h ago•4 comments

Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/xdgctl
30•mitjafelicijan•3h ago•11 comments

Bridging the Gap Between PLECS and SPICE

https://erickschulz.dev/posts/plecs-spice/
4•eschu•3h ago•0 comments

Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/jurassic-park-tablet-device-on-nedrys-desk.169883/
66•exvi•4h ago•23 comments

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp
662•joooscha•19h ago•408 comments

Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-poll...
454•hhs•14h ago•392 comments

Nango (YC W23, Dev Infrastructure) Is Hiring Remotely

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Nango
1•bastienbeurier•2h ago

Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts

https://www.lr.org/en/knowledge/press-room/press-listing/press-release/2026/alarm-overload-is-und...
33•geox•1h ago•11 comments

A Lament for Aperture

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
138•firloop•4d ago•29 comments

BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023)

https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/
29•eswat•2d ago•5 comments

Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators

https://github.com/divyaprakash0426/autoshorts
48•divyaprakash•6h ago•17 comments

The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-pennsylvania-rebirth
19•pbshgthm•5d ago•1 comments

Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials

https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/
8•mhb•21m ago•0 comments

I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck

https://modulovalue.com/blog/syscall-overhead-tar-gz-io-performance/
60•modulovalue•4d ago•32 comments

David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05047
87•transpute•11h ago•9 comments

Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/01/hands-on-with-two-apple-network-server.html
19•todsacerdoti•6h ago•0 comments

Doom has been ported to an earbud

https://doombuds.com
6•arin-s•1h ago•2 comments

Two Weeks Until Tapeout

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/two_weeks_until_tapeout/
153•client4•12h ago•10 comments

Intrinsically stretchable 2D MoS2 transistors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68504-2
16•bookofjoe•4d ago•0 comments

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375
453•AffableSpatula•23h ago•301 comments

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next
192•topherhaddad•18h ago•60 comments

Accept_language 2.2 – RFC 7231/4647 compliant Accept-Language parsing for Ruby

https://github.com/cyril/accept_language.rb
12•cyrilllllll•4h ago•0 comments

Article on the History of Spot Instances: Analyzing Spot Instance Pricing Change

https://spot.rackspace.com/blogs/history-of-spot-instances
5•aleroawani•4d ago•0 comments

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/
311•_____k•5d ago•285 comments

Putting Rocks on the Moon

https://ahwoo.com/posts/019bd882-d104-7347-be7b-8e0a5ce13cb5
14•epaga•4d ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

https://the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/
197•verginer•20h ago•84 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•9mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•9mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•9mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•9mo 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•9mo ago
^
mertleee•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•9mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

danielbln•9mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•9mo 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•9mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•9mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•9mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•9mo 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•9mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•9mo 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•9mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•9mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•9mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D