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Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

https://public-sans.digital.gov/
190•mhb•3h ago•73 comments

Netflix: Open Content

https://opencontent.netflix.com/
439•tosh•7h ago•80 comments

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

https://github.com/torokernel/torokernel
6•ignoramous•14m ago•0 comments

Non-Zero-Sum Games

https://nonzerosum.games/
211•8organicbits•5h ago•79 comments

The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network

https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-british-empires-resilient-subsea.html
80•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•10 comments

The Legacy of Undersea Cables

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-legacy-of-undersea-cables/
30•teleforce•2h ago•7 comments

Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale

https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale
63•flyaway123•5d ago•5 comments

Approachable Swift Concurrency

https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/
78•wrxd•4h ago•39 comments

Go away Python

https://lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=go-shebang
218•baalimago•8h ago•179 comments

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)

https://www.gkbrk.com/hotel-music
21•bayesnet•1w ago•0 comments

Hive (YC S14) Is Hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Data Systems)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hive.co/cb0dc490-0e32-4734-8d91-8b56a31ed497
1•patman_h•2h ago

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/
808•haunter•1d ago•480 comments

What Happened to Abit Motherboards

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-abit-motherboards/
11•zdw•2h ago•5 comments

Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings

https://screenrant.com/stranger-things-creator-turn-off-settings-premiere/
315•1970-01-01•17h ago•580 comments

Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

https://fontgenerator.design/symbols
111•yarlinghe•5d ago•45 comments

No strcpy either

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/
136•firesteelrain•4h ago•62 comments

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
111•firexcy•4h ago•68 comments

Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%

https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/
584•coloneltcb•23h ago•646 comments

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby

https://charm-ruby.dev/
86•todsacerdoti•9h ago•11 comments

Concurrent Hash Table Designs

https://bluuewhale.github.io/posts/concurrent-hashmap-designs/
30•signa11•3d ago•2 comments

Hacking Washing Machines [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
176•clausecker•15h ago•37 comments

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanct...
251•lifeisstillgood•6h ago•192 comments

The future of software development is software developers

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-devel...
332•cdrnsf•22h ago•377 comments

ManusAI Joins Meta

https://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation
285•gniting•19h ago•182 comments

UNIX Fourth Edition

http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/README
90•dcminter•1w ago•8 comments

AI is forcing us to write good code

https://bits.logic.inc/p/ai-is-forcing-us-to-write-good-code
266•sgk284•22h ago•195 comments

Graph Algorithms in Rayon

https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2025/11/27/graph-algorithms-in-rayon.html
40•PaulHoule•4d ago•0 comments

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)

https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
56•fanf2•4d ago•11 comments

Singapore Study Links Heavy Infant Screen Time to Teen Anxiety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/singapore-study-links-heavy-infant-screen-time...
64•1vuio0pswjnm7•4h ago•34 comments

Google is dead. Where do we go now?

https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/
984•tomjuggler•20h ago•780 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•8mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•8mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•8mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•8mo 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•8mo ago
^
mertleee•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•8mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•8mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•8mo 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•8mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•8mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•8mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•8mo 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•8mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•8mo 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•8mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•8mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•8mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D