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RuBee

https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html
68•Sniffnoy•2h ago•2 comments

The Cloudflare outage was a good thing

https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048
53•radeeyate•2h ago•25 comments

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays

https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay
755•ChrisArchitect•11h ago•100 comments

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

94•pugworthy•3h ago•27 comments

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs

https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/
99•signa11•2h ago•64 comments

The Rust Performance Book (2020)

https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/
45•vinhnx•4d ago•2 comments

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS

https://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acf
351•arianvanp•11h ago•148 comments

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html
103•rbanffy•4d ago•28 comments

Having Fun with Complex Numbers: A Real-Life Journey for Upper Elementary Studen

https://mathwonder.org/Having-Fun-with-Complex-Numbers/
8•smm16r•5d ago•6 comments

µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D

https://microcad.xyz/
124•todsacerdoti•8h ago•35 comments

Passing the Torch – My Last Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony as Crypto Officer 4

https://technotes.seastrom.com/2025/11/23/passing-the-torch.html
27•greyface-•3h ago•6 comments

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]

https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf
270•o4c•12h ago•58 comments

Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C

https://github.com/t9nzin/memory
68•t9nzin•7h ago•18 comments

Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/shaders
369•Garbage•17h ago•79 comments

Band of Holes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Holes
15•user070223•4d ago•2 comments

A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development

https://github.com/coder/mux
61•mercat•7h ago•23 comments

Racket v9.0

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/racket-v9-0.html
294•Fice•15h ago•98 comments

A Unified Theory of Ego, Empathy, and Humility at Work

https://matthogg.fyi/a-unified-theory-of-ego-empathy-and-humility-at-work/
17•mrmatthogg•3h ago•0 comments

Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html
288•bookofjoe•7h ago•335 comments

Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liva-ai/jobs/fYP8QP8-growth-intern
1•ashlleymo•6h ago

A free tool that stuns LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters

https://gibberifier.com
14•wdpatti•2h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation

https://github.com/unhappychoice/gitlogue
116•unhappychoice•5d ago•14 comments

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589875974658415
372•AshleysBrain•2d ago•50 comments

Particle Life

https://sandbox-science.com/particle-life
53•StromFLIX•7h ago•6 comments

After my dad died, we found the love letters

https://www.jenn.site/after-my-dad-died-we-found-the-love-letters/
853•eatitraw•20h ago•389 comments

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts

https://www.ft.com/content/abfe9741-f438-4ed6-a673-075ec177dc62
13•gwintrob•1h ago•1 comments

Sunsetting Supermaven

https://supermaven.com/blog/sunsetting-supermaven
40•vednig•6h ago•20 comments

Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd

https://github.com/dadtronics/protondrive-linux
118•cf100clunk•13h ago•46 comments

Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115591487350860999
213•dwohnitmok•1d ago•37 comments

MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-11-21-mcp-apps/
179•mercury24aug•1d ago•115 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•7mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•7mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•7mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•7mo 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•7mo ago
^
mertleee•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•7mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•7mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•7mo 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•7mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•7mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•7mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•7mo 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•7mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•7mo 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•7mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•7mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•7mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D