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GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
162•ilreb•1h ago•107 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
90•prophittcorey•1h ago•39 comments

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
24•gumby•37m ago•7 comments

Thinking Will Become a Hobby

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
32•pranitha_m•57m ago•17 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

21•vishnukool•1h ago•4 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
161•gregsadetsky•1d ago•60 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
77•djfergus•5h ago•21 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
153•meetpateltech•1h ago•62 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
29•surprisetalk•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
202•deadxwarrior•11h ago•108 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
635•royfish•19h ago•307 comments

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo
72•cataflam•2h ago•33 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
206•lukaslalinsky•12h ago•75 comments

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx
128•dkpk•5h ago•116 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
634•jttnr•23h ago•243 comments

Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby

https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby
68•julik•6h ago•34 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
159•bookofjoe•1d ago•135 comments

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/google-devsite-flask-session-pickle-rce
93•soeckly•10h ago•43 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
223•subset•2d ago•42 comments

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-unmade-film-shaped-hayao-miyazaki
44•vinhnx•3h ago•5 comments

Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

https://github.com/Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio
75•joshcsimmons•1d ago•19 comments

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries

https://github.com/morluto/rea
15•taytus•1h ago•0 comments

Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/french-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cybe...
36•salaryman777•2h ago•4 comments

Choreographic Programming in Rust

https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana
44•o8vm•1d ago•34 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
489•Anon84•1d ago•486 comments

Bag of Decisions Reranker

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/10/08/bag-of-decisions.html
61•zdw•2d ago•10 comments

QGIS: No A contributions permitted

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
333•bwnkl•6h ago•358 comments

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
306•edent•22h ago•62 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva

https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
185•acley•17h ago•68 comments

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

https://words.filippo.io/right-answers/
31•gavide•5h 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