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SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
739•ls612•4h ago•500 comments

Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages

https://www.crissyfield.de/research/lovable-en/
658•armcat•8h ago•278 comments

How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957
96•Skyfall106•3h ago•32 comments

A family tree of software job titles

https://zwischenzugs.com/2026/11/03/a-family-tree-of-software-job-titles/
213•umerf•8h ago•106 comments

Nvidia deliberately kept GPU prices high through circular financing deals

https://www.techspot.com/news/114558-nvidia-deliberately-kept-gpu-prices-high-through-circular.html
202•madihaa•3h ago•115 comments

KDE: The documentary [video]

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/fFinNHfanLT7aBEb2B8y4c
391•mrkn1•12h ago•85 comments

PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-11-06-ui-updates-complete/
207•rbanffy•10h ago•93 comments

500 Lines or Less A 3D Modeller

https://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-3d-modeller.html
9•myth_drannon•1d ago•0 comments

Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone?

https://so.long.thanks.fish/why-pi-when-i-have-an-old-phone/
514•casi•4d ago•284 comments

Show HN: DeepSeek V3 in ~200 lines of pure Jax

https://github.com/Vaibhaav-Tiwari/deepseek-v3-jax
180•VaibhaavTiwari•11h ago•9 comments

Oxford Molecular Motors

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/group/oxford-molecular-motors/research/bacterial-flagellar-...
13•handfuloflight•3d ago•1 comments

'Grey Rocking': The Life-Improving Power of Being Really, Really Boring (2021)

https://www.esquire.com/uk/life/a38473153/grey-rock-technique-being-boring/
102•NaOH•2d ago•57 comments

Advancing science and engineering with Antigravity's /teamwork

https://research.google/blog/advancing-science-engineering-with-antigravitys-teamwork-feature/
168•acossta•12h ago•37 comments

Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/seagate-resurrects-the-ssd-hdd-hybrid-drive/
73•PaulHoule•3d ago•39 comments

Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text

https://news.umich.edu/generative-ai-uses-more-energy-on-non-english-text/
182•DeepLogin•4d ago•98 comments

Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip

https://www.righto.com/2026/11/signetics-st680a-dtl-nand.html
94•dverlaeckt80•6d ago•6 comments

Testing a trash can Faraday cage

https://www.jefftk.com/p/testing-a-trash-can-faraday-cage
67•torutofu•2d ago•55 comments

The Sicilian Citrus Family Tree

https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/europa/citrus-family-tree.html
35•wmchen•4d ago•7 comments

Project Zero will disclose vulnerabilities 90 days after reporting

https://projectzero.google/2026/11/disclosure-policy.html
166•hacb•15h ago•44 comments

Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui

https://gitlab.com/snipedbywifi/terminactory
138•snipedbywifi•12h ago•28 comments

LinkedIn, Monster take down over 1000 fake job postings after CBC investigation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/linkedin-monster-take-down-over-1-000-fake-job-postings-after-cbc-...
195•gnabgib•7h ago•112 comments

Demystifying phone unlocking tools: A technical overview

https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/05/demystifying-phone-unlocking-tools-a-technical-overv...
82•iloveyoutwo•11h ago•7 comments

Tech companies are trying to shift the concept of privacy again

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/tech-companies-are-trying-shift-entire-concept-privacy-again
469•gslin•13h ago•175 comments

A visual explanation of reinforcement learning

https://aatishb.com/myriad/how-brains-learn/
125•aatish•12h ago•6 comments

Let's Write a PostScript Interpreter

https://beyondloom.com/blog/postscript.html
113•RebelPotato•1d ago•18 comments

Italy fines Meta $887M over Android users' data access

https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-fines-meta-887-million-over-android-users-data-access-2026-11...
337•giuliomagnifico•12h ago•224 comments

Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs

https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics
378•firloop•2d ago•161 comments

Creating a self booting ZIP archive

https://goliath32.com/blog/ziphead.html
54•gdgghhhhh•9h ago•7 comments

L3Harris statement on the Nov. 13 ground stop

https://www.l3harris.com/newsroom/press-release/2026/11/l3harris-statement-nov-13-ground-stop
68•taspeotis•3h ago•42 comments

Show HN: Fursoy – Out-of-order RV64IMAFDV core in SystemVerilog (Linux 6.6)

https://github.com/FURSOY/fursoy-cpu
71•fursoy•12h ago•23 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