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Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-linux
1068•bobsterlobster•5h ago•877 comments

Airfoil (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
225•brk•5h ago•38 comments

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python

https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/
72•dimamik•3h ago•36 comments

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood
39•orhunp_•2h ago•16 comments

Show HN: The HN Arcade

https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/
251•yuppiepuppie•8h ago•65 comments

I Overengineered a Spinning Top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp5NodfvvF4
70•bane•5d ago•19 comments

Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection

https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/computer-history-museum-launches-digital-portal-to-its...
15•ChrisArchitect•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++

https://github.com/beginner-jhj/mini_browser
81•crediblejhj•5h ago•23 comments

3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades

https://hessammehr.github.io/blog/posts/2025-12-24-maths-to-lampshade.html
18•hessammehr•4d ago•4 comments

Immanuel 'the Königsberg clock' Kant (2015)

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/1963-immanuel-kant-the-errrr-walker
21•rishabhd•3d ago•1 comments

Android's full desktop interface leaks: New status bar, Chrome Extensions

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
51•thunderbong•15h ago•46 comments

That's Not How Email Works, HSBC

https://danq.me/2026/01/28/hsbc-dont-understand-email/
93•HotGarbage•1h ago•43 comments

LM Studio 0.4.0

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0
31•jiqiren•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Dwm.tmux – a dwm-inspired window manager for tmux

https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux
72•saysjonathan•4d ago•10 comments

When Every Network is 192.168.1.x

https://netrinos.com/blog/conflicting-subnets
28•pcarroll•5h ago•16 comments

Show HN: SHDL – A minimal hardware description language built from logic gates

https://github.com/rafa-rrayes/SHDL
4•rafa_rrayes•7h ago•0 comments

There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

https://www.fastcompany.com/91477114/steve-wozniak-woz-apple-the-tech-interactive-humanitarian-award
275•coloneltcb•5d ago•131 comments

A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study

https://sentienceapi.com/blog/verification-layer-amazon-case-study
40•tonyww•17h ago•16 comments

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/01/27/security/rust-at-scale-security-whatsapp/
211•ubj•13h ago•93 comments

I have written gemma3 inference in pure C

https://github.com/robitec97/gemma3.c
4•robitec97•2d ago•0 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Staff Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/GPJkv5v-staff-engineer-tech-lead
1•asontha•7h ago

Spinning around: Please don't – Common problems with spin locks

https://www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post/spinning-around/
15•bdash•2h ago•2 comments

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
849•bigwheels•1d ago•754 comments

Prism

https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism
741•meetpateltech•1d ago•498 comments

Show HN: Cua-Bench – a benchmark for AI agents in GUI environments

https://github.com/trycua/cua
24•someguy101010•2d ago•3 comments

Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy

https://hcs64.com/video-boy-vue/
85•hcs•11h ago•27 comments

SVG Path Editor

https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/
212•gurjeet•5d ago•33 comments

Make.ts

https://matklad.github.io/2026/01/27/make-ts.html
191•ingve•11h ago•101 comments

Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration

https://www.notte.cc/launch-week-i/demonstrate-mode
22•ogandreakiro•1d ago•9 comments

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neanderthals-tools.html
475•bookofjoe•1d ago•249 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