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Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
957•adocomplete•14h ago•434 comments

Text-Based Web Browsers

https://cssence.com/2026/text-based-web-browsers/
84•pabs3•4h ago•34 comments

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
609•admp•18h ago•250 comments

Postal Arbitrage

https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
403•The28thDuck•16h ago•203 comments

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/
616•mchro•21h ago•345 comments

Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014)

https://tinyhack.com/2014/03/12/implementing-a-web-server-in-a-single-printf-call/
51•nateb2022•4d ago•3 comments

The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/cray.cray1.1977.102638650.pdf
96•LordGrey•3d ago•52 comments

The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0mLhHDcY3I
235•cjaackie•14h ago•213 comments

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

https://cy.md/opencode-rce/
328•CyberShadow•1d ago•107 comments

Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w
112•Growtika•4d ago•55 comments

Date is out, Temporal is in

https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/
382•alexanderameye•18h ago•152 comments

Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7184969
90•thunderbong•3h ago•14 comments

Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

https://www.bellard.org/ts_zip/
162•everlier•13h ago•66 comments

LLVM: The bad parts

https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html
337•vitaut•19h ago•64 comments

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html
839•stygiansonic•18h ago•519 comments

Zirgen: Compiler for a Domain-Specific Language

https://github.com/risc0/zirgen
10•0xkato•4d ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

https://www.trylad.com
162•WillNickols•17h ago•86 comments

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic
297•codesparkle•23h ago•198 comments

Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/bm25-latency-musings
24•_peregrine_•4d ago•0 comments

Kafka Inc

https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/kafkainc/
16•Caiero•5d ago•2 comments

Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE
191•edent•20h ago•188 comments

Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox
83•Finbarr•15h ago•67 comments

Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires
94•river_otter•19h ago•29 comments

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
2635•happosai•1d ago•1129 comments

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
402•giuliomagnifico•21h ago•729 comments

F2 (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/f2/jobs/cJsc7Fe-product-designer
1•arctech•11h ago

Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

https://github.com/z-libs/Zen-C
192•simonpure•21h ago•117 comments

Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load

https://github.com/sarusso/bedtime
68•sarusso•15h ago•24 comments

Git Rebase for the Terrified

https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/
42•aaronbrethorst•5d ago•41 comments

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_delayed_is_justice_denied
3•barrister•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•9mo 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