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Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/
89•mchro•2h ago•34 comments

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
2162•happosai•18h ago•897 comments

Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

https://github.com/z-libs/Zen-C
39•simonpure•2h ago•27 comments

Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE
95•edent•1h ago•88 comments

Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode

https://taylorkolasinski.com/notes/mhc-reproduction/
17•taykolasinski•1h ago•8 comments

Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions

https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2026/01/10/actions-terminal-on-failure-for-debugging/
51•martinpeck•2h ago•6 comments

Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig

https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/migrating-our-dom-to-zig
119•gearnode•5h ago•59 comments

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3zl2ywyo
79•reconnecting•5h ago•27 comments

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

https://fulghum.io/self-hosting
651•websku•17h ago•444 comments

JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/j-r-r-tolkien-reads-from-the-hobbit-for-30-minutes-1952.html
199•bookofjoe•5d ago•68 comments

Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text

https://huggingface.co/datasets/tsazan/ikea-us-commercetxt
30•tsazan•5d ago•24 comments

Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/01/07/call-to-fast-track-bill-targeting-ai-deepfakes-and-...
38•mooreds•1h ago•10 comments

39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be
189•fried-gluttony•3d ago•83 comments

Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2

https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2025/12/zootopia-2.html
74•pantalaimon•5d ago•1 comments

iCloud Photos Downloader

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
551•reconnecting•19h ago•209 comments

Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in the US

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
162•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•256 comments

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser

https://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/
252•snoofydude•16h ago•66 comments

Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/01/08/keychrons-nape-pro-turns-your-mechanical-keyboard-into-a-l...
10•tortilla•19m ago•0 comments

Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios

https://conbini.kikkia.dev/
97•zdw•5d ago•42 comments

XMPP and Metadata

https://blog.mathieui.net/xmpp-and-metadata.html
43•todsacerdoti•5d ago•8 comments

The next two years of software engineering

https://addyosmani.com/blog/next-two-years/
228•napolux•17h ago•220 comments

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA
393•imagiro•4d ago•56 comments

Climbing the mountain: or, venturing into PL theory

https://techne98.com/blog/climbing-the-mountain/
9•fixedprog•5d ago•0 comments

Uncrossy

https://uncrossy.com/
132•dgacmu•13h ago•40 comments

FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems

https://jakobemmerling.de/posts/fuse-is-all-you-need/
185•jakobem•17h ago•61 comments

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
277•HansVanEijsden•3d ago•179 comments

Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell

https://github.com/ibehnam/shellock
29•behnamoh•5d ago•10 comments

Sampling at negative temperature

https://cavendishlabs.org/blog/negative-temperature/
188•ag8•19h ago•54 comments

Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6Lacc7wx4yYkBQ3r/insights-into-claude-opus-4-5-from-pokemon
111•surprisetalk•5d ago•22 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

229•david927•22h ago•715 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•8mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•8mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•8mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•8mo 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•8mo ago
^
mertleee•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•8mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

danielbln•8mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•8mo 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•8mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•8mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•8mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•8mo 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•8mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•8mo 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•8mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•8mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•8mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D