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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

https://www.righto.com/2025/11/unusual-386-standard-cell-circuits.html
90•Stratoscope•5h ago•13 comments

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure

https://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/
224•vedmed•8h ago•96 comments

GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2025-November/247020.html
108•edelsohn•6h ago•34 comments

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html
537•ingve•15h ago•323 comments

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
443•exr0n•1d ago•118 comments

WorldGen – Text to Immersive 3D Worlds

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/worldgen-3d-world-generation-reality-labs-generative-ai-research/
196•smusamashah•11h ago•62 comments

NTSB report: Decryption of images from the Titan submersible camera [pdf] (2024)

https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18741602&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Underwater%2...
107•bmurray7jhu•8h ago•46 comments

Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-total-coverage-for-ubuntu-lts-releases-to-15-years-w...
85•taubek•2d ago•34 comments

Unicode Binary Input Terminal

https://hackaday.io/project/192644-unicode-binary-input-terminal
10•speckx•1w ago•1 comments

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

https://forty.news
261•foxbarrington•14h ago•111 comments

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-socia...
278•pseudolus•7h ago•103 comments

The Boring Part of Bell Labs

https://elizabethvannostrand.substack.com/p/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs
95•AcesoUnderGlass•3d ago•14 comments

An Economy of AI Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01063
60•nerder92•6h ago•32 comments

`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)

https://sjer.red/blog/2024-12-21/
156•surprisetalk•4d ago•122 comments

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga
245•rany_•1w ago•110 comments

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax

https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html
21•PaulHoule•1w ago•9 comments

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal

https://windowsreport.com/google-revisits-jpeg-xl-in-chromium-after-earlier-removal/
48•eln1•2h ago•9 comments

Garibaldi, History's Sexiest Revolutionary?

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/historys-sexiest-revolutionary-meet-the-mesmerising...
26•thomassmith65•1w ago•19 comments

Simplifying Cluster-Wide PostgreSQL Execution with Exec_node() and Spock OSS

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/simplifying-cluster-wide-sql-execution-in-pgedge-with-exec_node
3•pgedge_postgres•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages

https://github.com/arpxspace/smartcommit
66•Aplikethewatch•12h ago•75 comments

Pixel Art Tips for Programmers

https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/5-pixel-art-tips-for-programmers-3d6
90•ibobev•1d ago•17 comments

Windows ARM64 Internals: Deconstructing Pointer Authentication

https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/windows-arm64-internals-deconstructing-pointer-authentication
58•todsacerdoti•10h ago•2 comments

The realities of being a pop star

https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star
208•lovestory•15h ago•109 comments

China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milesto...
275•surprisetalk•15h ago•211 comments

Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows

https://vintagetek.org/tektronix-in-movies-shows/
98•stmw•6d ago•26 comments

Markdown is holding you back

https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/
100•zdw•12h ago•74 comments

Agent design is still hard

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/
379•the_mitsuhiko•21h ago•217 comments

Show HN: A tool to safely migrate GitHub Actions workflows to Ubuntu-slim runner

https://github.com/fchimpan/gh-slimify
40•r4mimu•1w ago•0 comments

A Reverse Engineer's Anatomy of the macOS Boot Chain and Security Architecture

https://stack.int.mov/a-reverse-engineers-anatomy-of-the-macos-boot-chain-security-architecture/
104•19h•12h ago•34 comments

A cryptography research body held an election and they can't decrypt the results

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/cryptography-group-lost-election-results.html
55•FabHK•5h ago•21 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