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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
303•thecr0w•8h ago•254 comments

Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw6833
49•defrost•4h ago•17 comments

Bag of words, have mercy on us

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us
40•ntnbr•3h ago•27 comments

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
187•AareyBaba•7h ago•188 comments

Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/work-disincentives-hit-the-near-poor-hardest-why-and-what-to-do-ab...
25•folump•5d ago•4 comments

Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003
17•HeliumHydride•3d ago•4 comments

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
389•Alifatisk•13h ago•137 comments

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
250•bookofjoe•11h ago•405 comments

Show HN: Cdecl-dump - represent C declarations visually

https://github.com/bbu/cdecl-dump
6•bluetomcat•1h ago•2 comments

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
145•pykello•5d ago•17 comments

A two-person method to simulate die rolls (2023)

https://blog.42yeah.is/algorithm/2023/08/05/two-person-die.html
53•Fraterkes•2d ago•29 comments

Scala 3 slowed us down?

https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
179•kmaliszewski•10h ago•107 comments

How I block all online ads

https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
75•StrLght•3h ago•31 comments

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

https://howtech.substack.com/p/spinlocks-vs-mutexes-when-to-spin
28•birdculture•1h ago•4 comments

What the heck is going on at Apple?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/tech/apple-tim-cook-leadership-changes
49•methuselah_in•9h ago•48 comments

The Anatomy of a macOS App

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
191•elashri•13h ago•56 comments

Build a DIY magnetometer with a couple of seasoning bottles

https://spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-protons-diy-magnetometer
63•nullbyte808•1w ago•17 comments

Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of "Spaghetti" Code(2013)

https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-the-big-bowl-of-spaghetti-code/
5•SoKamil•1h ago•1 comments

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners

https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html
148•todsacerdoti•6h ago•171 comments

The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves...
515•doener•12h ago•238 comments

Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning

https://research.google/blog/introducing-nested-learning-a-new-ml-paradigm-for-continual-learning/
77•themgt•11h ago•2 comments

Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer

https://netninja.com/2025/12/01/minimum-viable-arduino-project-aeropress-timer/
18•surprisetalk•5d ago•7 comments

Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help

https://www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/millions-of-americans-mess-up-their
37•toomuchtodo•6h ago•12 comments

Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

https://www.javaadvent.com/2025/12/java-hello-world-llvm-edition.html
165•ingve•14h ago•58 comments

Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34495
96•danso•6h ago•82 comments

Building a Toast Component

https://emilkowal.ski/ui/building-a-toast-component
91•FragrantRiver•4d ago•33 comments

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/proxmox_datacenter_manager_1_stable/
57•Bender•4h ago•1 comments

Context plumbing

https://interconnected.org/home/2025/11/28/plumbing
13•gmays•5d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode

https://github.com/collinboler/leetcodewrapped
23•collinboler2•7h ago•9 comments

Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions

https://gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026/
458•puttycat•12h ago•358 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