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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
1097•haunter•11h ago•363 comments

The Vatican's Website in Latin

https://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html
45•ks2048•1h ago•23 comments

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
759•diebillionaires•10h ago•293 comments

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
426•e12e•11h ago•461 comments

The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/05/the-old-guard-samuel-moyn-gerontocracy/
42•Caiero•2h ago•36 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
212•stevekrouse•9h ago•137 comments

Finding the differences in a series of power supplies

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/05/05/testing-psu-series
7•LabsLucas•1d ago•0 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
522•Anon84•2d ago•338 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
219•unforgivenpasta•8h ago•213 comments

How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260504-00/?p=112296
23•ingve•1d ago•22 comments

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi
29•zeech•1d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/
156•bstrama•10h ago•156 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
102•benanne•8h ago•18 comments

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
27•whatisabcdefgh•4h ago•8 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
118•jeromechoo•7h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

https://tilde.run/
130•ozkatz•10h ago•98 comments

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
52•dmos62•1d ago•20 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
133•elonlit•1d ago•28 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4

https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html
224•s1291•7h ago•63 comments

Ted Turner has died

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
235•pseudolus•11h ago•188 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com
105•oahmadov•10h ago•24 comments

Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens

https://www.noetik.blog/p/perturb-mars-reading-mouse-experiments
5•crescit_eundo•2d ago•0 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non
40•jonbaer•9h ago•1 comments

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts
33•asmodios•6h ago•8 comments

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
128•jandeboevrie•15h ago•46 comments

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
397•meetpateltech•10h ago•344 comments

ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion

https://therecord.media/ADT-data-breach-cyberattack
26•PaulHoule•2h ago•6 comments

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
84•zdw•1d ago•55 comments

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-sounds-0429
81•gmays•3d ago•61 comments

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
628•rolph•23h ago•355 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