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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
430•ezst•5h ago•168 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
55•Qision•1d ago•28 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
213•ksec•7h ago•35 comments

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe
70•vinni2•1h ago•80 comments

Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games

https://github.com/brumar/chess-postmortem-skills
16•brumar•1h ago•10 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers – Castle Game Engine

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
64•birdculture•2d ago•25 comments

Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math

https://gmays.com/reflections-on-1000-days-of-math/
29•gmays•3d ago•5 comments

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/
615•specked-citrus•19h ago•395 comments

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU

https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/
7•jiegec•2d ago•0 comments

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-l...
27•ilamont•1h ago•23 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
260•srcreigh•13h ago•361 comments

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
18•msephton•19h ago•17 comments

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

https://floci.io
103•theanonymousone•8h ago•22 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead...
467•jmvldz•1d ago•417 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
540•Ardakilic•22h ago•133 comments

Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?

https://safenotsafe.dev/
97•vira28•9h ago•29 comments

16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade

https://tuckerosman.com/projects/16gb-ipod-nano
99•Ivoah•2d ago•12 comments

New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely

https://scitechdaily.com/new-satellite-engine-could-use-earths-atmosphere-as-fuel-to-stay-in-orbi...
20•GordonS•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
234•pancomplex•1d ago•94 comments

Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/parsing-expression-grammar-lisp-org-convert-to-h...
64•jjba23•2d ago•13 comments

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html
115•allanrbo•12h ago•33 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
255•fratellobigio•19h ago•375 comments

Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1124870
26•walrus01•2d ago•7 comments

Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

198•mlaux•21h ago•205 comments

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
257•ibobev•1d ago•194 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
77•EA-3167•1d ago•18 comments

Scientists build most accurate atomic clock

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-scientists-world-accurate-atomic-clock.html
43•wglb•2d ago•22 comments

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/
342•pseudolus•15h ago•94 comments

The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc...
84•bj-rn•6h ago•44 comments

ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says

https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/22/asml-currently-sells-chipmaking-machines-europe-executive-says
111•doener•2d ago•120 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