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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...
612•haunter•4h ago•194 comments

Appearing Productive in the Workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
287•diebillionaires•3h ago•94 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
96•stevekrouse•2h ago•38 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
37•elonlit•1d ago•10 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
404•Anon84•2d ago•273 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
12•benanne•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://play.templatical.com
48•oahmadov•3h ago•15 comments

BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/
125•doener•1h ago•146 comments

CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara2
407•hakonjdjohnsen•2d ago•49 comments

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
108•jandeboevrie•8h ago•32 comments

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
46•zdw•1d ago•26 comments

Google tools for customizing searches

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
47•maxutility•15h ago•9 comments

Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-26/colombia-hosts-talks-on-exiting-fossil-fuels...
81•PaulHoule•2h ago•47 comments

Knitting bullshit

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/
376•ColinEberhardt•14h ago•159 comments

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html
196•notsentient•13h ago•51 comments

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css
268•cheeaun•15h ago•37 comments

Going Full Time on Open Source

https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/
78•thunderbong•2h ago•7 comments

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors
171•gnabgib•3d ago•61 comments

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-660...
217•neilfrndes•16h ago•158 comments

CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
123•pseudolus•4h ago•94 comments

Proton Meet

https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet
39•Einenlum•1h ago•6 comments

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit

https://www.coveragecat.com/careers/engineering/fractional-growth-engineer
1•botacode•7h ago

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
43•unforgivenpasta•1h ago•31 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non
7•jonbaer•2h ago•1 comments

Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)

https://www.happydaze.se/wolf/
115•ksymph•2d ago•25 comments

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
293•veeti•18h ago•102 comments

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-thinking-plants-man/
48•benbreen•2d ago•11 comments

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

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
594•rolph•16h ago•343 comments

StarFighter 16-Inch

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
624•signa11•17h ago•341 comments

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem

https://tilde.run/
92•ozkatz•3h ago•76 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