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Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay

https://numa.rs/blog/posts/odoh-anonymous-dns-without-an-account.html
57•rdme•2h ago•16 comments

Claude for Small Business

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business
355•neilfrndes•9h ago•312 comments

The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/tree-house
19•Caiero•2d ago•1 comments

Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)

https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
19•signa11•1h ago•17 comments

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
304•meshko•12h ago•114 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-l...
822•haunter•3d ago•516 comments

New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-york-california-pension-leaders-oppose-extreme-space...
33•2OEH8eoCRo0•59m ago•35 comments

Leaving the Physical World

https://www.eff.org/pages/leaving-physical-world
62•andsoitis•3d ago•23 comments

Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

https://classic7.lol/
109•jandeboevrie•6h ago•93 comments

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
581•speckx•22h ago•180 comments

Saying Goodbye to one line of APL

https://homewithinnowhere.com/posts/2026-05-10-one-line.html#fnref1
19•tosh•3d ago•7 comments

A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development

https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
103•cdrnsf•10h ago•18 comments

The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/14/1220
23•rcarmo•1h ago•5 comments

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
260•tosh•18h ago•310 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
404•laurentlb•5d ago•264 comments

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
335•rdslw•1d ago•210 comments

Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems

https://joshuahhh.com/dims-of-feedback/
27•tobr•3d ago•4 comments

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/
189•Eswo•2d ago•59 comments

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/swift-bricks-to-be-installed-in-all-new-build...
18•bookofjoe•4d ago•2 comments

Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/ay/d5ay01801c
69•efavdb•12h ago•18 comments

Remove .zig Files from Bun

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30680
4•quasigloam•3h ago•1 comments

Extraordinary Ordinals

https://text.marvinborner.de/2026-04-09-17.html
32•marvinborner•2d ago•11 comments

Show HN: Nibble

https://github.com/glouw/nibble
69•glouwbug•11h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
692•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•197 comments

The Deathbed Notes of Henry James (1968)

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/james/jnote.htm
17•Hooke•1d ago•0 comments

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html
214•akrylov•23h ago•607 comments

Pipes, Forks, and Zombies

https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/wiki/2017/Shell3/
3•tosh•2h ago•0 comments

Cisco workforce reductions

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/our-path-forward
233•ahmedomran8•11h ago•245 comments

The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/2054887621336174799
3•tosh•12m ago•0 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy
197•andsoitis•4d ago•84 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