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404•47thpresident•7h ago•96 comments

A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/
22•ibobev•1h ago•0 comments

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/
281•todsacerdoti•2h ago•213 comments

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
270•simonw•5h ago•49 comments

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second

https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/
52•Loeffelmann•2h ago•31 comments

Proving Liveness with TLA

https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2026/01/01/tla-liveness/
12•ibobev•1h ago•0 comments

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
279•Brajeshwar•12h ago•567 comments

Clicks Communicator

https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
270•microflash•9h ago•193 comments

FracturedJson

https://github.com/j-brooke/FracturedJson/wiki
518•PretzelFisch•14h ago•139 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

256•whoishiring•11h ago•166 comments

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

https://unixv4.dev/
127•pjmlp•7h ago•57 comments

Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-...
129•josephcsible•3h ago•60 comments

Linux kernel security work

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/01/02/linux-kernel-security-work/
57•chmaynard•5h ago•27 comments

Blob Opera, Community Edition

https://opera.addy.ie
15•padolsey•1w ago•1 comments

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
126•sethbannon•8h ago•177 comments

Chain Flinger

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-kinetik-der-kontinua-part-1-introduction
29•roomey•5d ago•7 comments

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

https://github.com/Alanma23/tinytinyTPU-co
88•Xenograph•7h ago•39 comments

Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/global_software-engineering_jobs_january_2026/
45•sp1982•5h ago•15 comments

Rope science, part 11 – practical syntax highlighting (2017)

https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_11.html
5•PaulHoule•1w ago•0 comments

The PGP Problem (2019)

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/#the-answers
17•croemer•5d ago•18 comments

Jank Lang Hit Alpha

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
122•makemethrowaway•7h ago•19 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
129•ChrisArchitect•10h ago•114 comments

What you need to know before touching a video file

https://gist.github.com/arch1t3cht/b5b9552633567fa7658deee5aec60453/
294•qbow883•6d ago•192 comments

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-einstein-probe-ray-flare-nearby.html
5•wglb•1h ago•1 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html
73•tosh•8h ago•25 comments

Uxn32: Uxn Emulator for Windows and Wine

https://github.com/randrew/uxn32
38•ibobev•5d ago•3 comments

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/cas/tridgell96.pdf
96•vortex_ape•10h ago•8 comments

Blaze: A Dec VT420 (and More) Emulator

https://mmastrac.github.io/blaze/
9•doener•2h ago•3 comments

Assorted less(1) tips

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
181•todsacerdoti•14h ago•42 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

93•whoishiring•11h ago•171 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