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'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

https://remysharp.com/links/2026-07-23-35890312
285•speckx•1h ago•101 comments

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

https://mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users
36•notarobot123•1h ago•12 comments

Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-methods/
55•Thom2503•2h ago•35 comments

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

https://prized.dev
19•marinoseliades•1h ago•7 comments

Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/
137•alberto-m•6h ago•54 comments

Gpiozero Flow

https://bennuttall.com/blog/2026/07/gpiozero-flow/
97•benn_88•4h ago•29 comments

I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder
45•laurentiurad•3h ago•37 comments

How Old Is Ann?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/07/29/how-old-is-ann/
38•ibobev•2h ago•34 comments

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

https://github.com/n67094/sdl_gp
3•n67094•15m ago•0 comments

Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures

https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/trusted-urls-via-cryptographic.html
3•Edmond•20m ago•0 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/
5•bmacho•22m ago•0 comments

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Robotics/Research Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs
1•chitianhao•2h ago

Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits

https://docs.carolinacloud.io/organizations/prepaid-interest/
54•bojangleslover•5h ago•38 comments

Are We Stuck with Lean?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/513742/are-we-stuck-with-lean
25•jjgreen•3h ago•4 comments

Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
52•crescit_eundo•2h ago•54 comments

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

https://github.com/grafana/ai-sdk
24•matryer•2h ago•8 comments

3D Pinball for Windows (1995)

https://98.js.org/programs/pinball/space-cadet.html
24•mushstory•3h ago•9 comments

CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cosmosescape-taking-over-every-database-in-azure-cosmos-db
20•uvuv•2h ago•6 comments

Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine

https://bsid.io/writing/building-a-cel-engine-for-net
4•jackedEngineer•2d ago•0 comments

The Glass Famine

https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-glass-famine
59•baud147258•3d ago•30 comments

Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

https://github.com/YoanWai/agent-manager
66•yoanwaidev•5h ago•47 comments

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html
214•dmantis•4h ago•239 comments

The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

https://hex.ooo/library/alicebob.html
8•kamma4434•3d ago•1 comments

LLM Honeypot

https://llm2human.pages.dev/
346•8thom•16h ago•95 comments

You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface

https://steelmanlabs.com/blog/computer-use-is-far-from-solved
29•mpavlov•3h ago•4 comments

Europe's fires are just the start

https://economist.com/leaders/2026/07/28/europes-fires-are-just-the-start
71•andsoitis•56m ago•95 comments

Azulejo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azulejo
107•Amorymeltzer•1d ago•35 comments

The first watch featuring computer functions

https://by.seiko-design.com/140th/en/topic/58.html
55•stefanv•4d ago•24 comments

The Productivity Mirage

https://frantic.im/mirage/
313•msephton•15h ago•137 comments

Going beneath NTFS: USN Journal, dfir_NTFS, and artefact-driven investigations

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/07/06/ntfs-forensics-deep-dive/
6•ankitg12•2h ago•1 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