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A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon
119•olexsmir•18h ago•37 comments

An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

https://blog.ktz.me/esp32-plane-radar/
118•alexktz•5h ago•21 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
301•mellosouls•11h ago•187 comments

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

https://golfcoursebrowser.com/
109•rickmf•5h ago•57 comments

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history

https://tangled.org/oppi.li/stinkpot
39•nerdypepper•1d ago•8 comments

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

https://huggingface.co/owensong/Inflect-Micro-v2
109•nateb2022•7h ago•9 comments

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

https://github.com/demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-2026-7-22/blob/master/%E6%A2%81%E6%...
127•oliculipolicula•8h ago•92 comments

Some more things about Django I've been enjoying

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/21/more-nice-django-things/
18•surprisetalk•4d ago•2 comments

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/
103•alphabetatango•9h ago•74 comments

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40700-grapheneos-protections-against-data-extraction-from-locked...
10•Cider9986•2h ago•0 comments

Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-strategy-statement
68•jjwiseman•2d ago•31 comments

JetZero

https://www.jetzero.aero
182•lisper•5h ago•142 comments

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/
54•spzx•6h ago•15 comments

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai
166•boveyking•13h ago•37 comments

Git rebase -I is not that scary

https://cachebag.sh/journal/interactive-rebasing/
55•vinhnx•7h ago•52 comments

Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/clinical-failure-rates-over-decades-yikes
94•EA-3167•9h ago•67 comments

Systems and Delays

https://martin.janiczek.cz/2026/07/24/systems-and-delays.html
59•vinhnx•7h ago•14 comments

W4ME Station – a WASM-4 runtime for Java ME phones

https://github.com/mulfyx/w4me-station
15•sqshi•3h ago•2 comments

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
141•zdw•12h ago•120 comments

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-really-happening-jobs-separating-ai-hyp...
76•pod_krad•9h ago•81 comments

SIMD for Collision

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/07/simd-for-collision/
88•birdculture•3d ago•27 comments

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energy
171•rbanffy•10h ago•72 comments

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

https://brandonli.net/semisim/animations
172•stunningllama•1d ago•21 comments

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

https://brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8
180•jsax•14h ago•53 comments

Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair?

https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/agatha-christie-disappearance/23136/
21•thunderbong•3d ago•9 comments

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

https://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/flexible-renewable-ammonia-demonstrator-now-operational-in-min...
117•gritzko•12h ago•85 comments

Memory safety absolutists

https://itsallaboutthebit.com/memory-safety-absolutists/
89•drogus•14h ago•127 comments

Turn And Face The Strange

https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/
192•subarctic•11h ago•127 comments

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
914•shscs911•1d ago•446 comments

Humans haven't stopped evolving

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/research/harvard-human-evolution-genes-selective-pressure
58•ilamont•5h ago•63 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