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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...
313•hhs•7h ago•241 comments

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp
528•joooscha•13h ago•322 comments

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

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/
79•_____k•5d ago•29 comments

A Lament for Aperture

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
51•firloop•4d ago•13 comments

David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05047
40•transpute•5h ago•3 comments

Two Weeks Until Tapeout

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/two_weeks_until_tapeout/
91•client4•6h ago•5 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
164•topherhaddad•12h ago•52 comments

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable

https://eclypsium.com/blog/xray-counterfeit-usb-cable/
129•aa_is_op•8h ago•50 comments

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375
384•AffableSpatula•17h ago•250 comments

Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-second-emergency-out-of-band-updat...
115•speckx•4h ago•58 comments

Typography on Pencils (2023)

https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/typography-on-pencils-1-5
57•NaOH•4d ago•3 comments

Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971
147•tosh•4h ago•28 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/
158•verginer•14h ago•80 comments

Show HN: VM-curator – a TUI alternative to libvirt and virt-manager

https://github.com/mroboff/vm-curator
22•theYipster•4h ago•2 comments

The Temporal Consistency Challenge in Video Restoration

https://blog.videowatermarkremove.com/the-temporal-consistency-challenge-from-optical-flow-to-spa...
13•ilmj8426•4d ago•2 comments

Vortex Support in DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2026/01/23/duckdb-vortex-extension
22•0x1997•5h ago•0 comments

Memory layout in Zig with formulas

https://raymondtana.github.io/math/programming/2026/01/23/zig-alignment-and-sizing.html
99•raymondtana•16h ago•25 comments

Draig, a Welsh Programming Language

https://raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::CY
30•librasteve•2d ago•24 comments

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

166•goopthink•15h ago•108 comments

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

https://blog.tansu.io/articles/broker-aws-free-tier
79•rmoff•4d ago•12 comments

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/wiper-malware-targeted-poland-energy-grid-but-failed-to-...
207•Bender•10h ago•71 comments

Maze Algorithms (2017)

http://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/
125•surprisetalk•1d ago•28 comments

Agent orchestration for the timid

https://substack.com/inbox/post/185649875
99•markferree•12h ago•25 comments

Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public

https://sharedclaude.com/
59•reasonableklout•23h ago•21 comments

First Design Engineer Hire – Build Games at Gym Class (YC W22)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gym-class-by-irl-studios/jobs/ywXHGBv-design-engineer-senio...
1•hackerews•11h ago

Understanding Rust Closures

https://antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/rust-closures/
50•avandecreme•13h ago•22 comments

High-bandwidth flash progress and future

https://blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/19/a-window-into-hbf-progress/
25•tanelpoder•4d ago•7 comments

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

https://micahcantor.com/blog/bluesky-comment-section.html
250•hydroxideOH-•11h ago•88 comments

Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists

https://jeisey.github.io/stormwatch/
37•lotusxblack•12h ago•7 comments

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/
443•user5994461•21h ago•255 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