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The $8 Linux Computer (2022)

http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html
30•zenincognito•1h ago•9 comments

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

https://nfsu2.xyz/
331•fluxusars•5h ago•103 comments

Libghostty 1.0

https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
841•mfiguiere•15h ago•138 comments

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
314•infwhispers•5h ago•163 comments

Running a law firm on Free software

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/
74•DeepLogin•5h ago•30 comments

British Library Legal deposit and web archiving

https://www.bl.uk/services/legal-deposit/web-archiving
8•robtherobber•4d ago•0 comments

Building the NBC News Big Board

https://ejfox.com/projects/nbc-big-board
25•whalesalad•3d ago•6 comments

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-wind-cybertruck-production-years-poor-sales-markets-...
1076•PLenz•1d ago•1933 comments

A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

https://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolution
530•theanomaly•19h ago•126 comments

ToothPaste

https://brisk4t.github.io/blog/toothpaste/
41•speckx•3d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5

https://github.com/hyphatech/spindle
24•zaiev•2d ago•6 comments

The Components of Agent Memory

https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory
90•geoffbp•8h ago•49 comments

Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/greece-has-its-own-pompeii-and-the-ruins-tell-a-captivatin...
155•derbOac•3d ago•21 comments

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-faa-says-it-will-phase-out-floppy-disks-air-traffic-control-b...
367•ChrisArchitect•1d ago•303 comments

Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist

https://acid.vegas/blog/the-port-that-does-not-exist/
34•NewCzech•5h ago•8 comments

RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters

https://www.multifamilydive.com/news/realpage-rent-pricing-case-360m-renters/873553/
146•raybb•15h ago•103 comments

Upload Your RAM

https://uploadyourram.org
214•susanthenerd•5h ago•186 comments

Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2

https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escape
260•SerCe•19h ago•112 comments

A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-re...
150•benbreen•10h ago•122 comments

Notes on San Marino

https://mattlakeman.org/2026/11/05/notes-on-san-marino/
102•yorwba•22h ago•41 comments

PostgreSQL Internals [pdf] (2023)

https://edu.postgrespro.com/postgresql_internals-14_en.pdf
52•Foe•3d ago•6 comments

8088 Domination Post-Mortem

https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-mortem-part-1/
36•cosmojg•2d ago•5 comments

The Flash C Compiler

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/31/flash-c-compiler/
78•AlexeyBrin•4d ago•29 comments

The great butter and cheese fire of 1991

https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/05/11/over-20-m-lbs-commodities-lost-grea...
53•subroutine•2d ago•18 comments

First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI

https://kevinboone.me/efitest_index.html
235•LaSombra•22h ago•48 comments

GitHub's new Git storage architecture

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/inside-githubs-new-git-storage-architec...
178•DAlperin•19h ago•46 comments

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/
351•thisisauserid•1d ago•241 comments

Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years?

https://pivotlake.io/blog/know-your-limit-faster-top-k-aggregation/
101•ntur1337•3d ago•17 comments

Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming

https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-wyoming-data-center-campus-update
97•rexbee•19h ago•60 comments

Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign

https://www.infohawk.com/news/2026-11-05-scamwich-restaurant-skimming
147•fiej•19h ago•76 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