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Jelly Sheet

https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/
214•memalign•5h ago•51 comments

C++26 Disapproved

https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/
271•thatxliner•8h ago•158 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/
786•xx_ns•1d ago•312 comments

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot

https://neufangled.com/
570•nharada•16h ago•193 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL

https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
259•ibobev•10h ago•18 comments

The lost malloc()

https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/
15•matt_d•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie

https://uncracked.city
49•passkey1510•11h ago•16 comments

Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients

https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2026/study-reveals-distinct-cellular-and-genet...
65•gmays•5h ago•7 comments

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/giant-canyon-mars-still-tectonically-active-today
77•gmays•7h ago•8 comments

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

https://hackertv.org
317•dsalzman•1d ago•65 comments

Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025)

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/arrows-to-arrows/
42•firstbase•5h ago•2 comments

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archivin...
463•bookofjoe•1d ago•192 comments

Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

https://spoon-tamago.com/japan-jimi-mundane-halloween-costumes-2026/
185•zdw•2d ago•32 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/
605•theanonymousone•15h ago•178 comments

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/
417•paddingtone•11h ago•222 comments

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370
1246•sidgarimella•15h ago•410 comments

We're training a Figma-fluent editing model

https://www.figma.com/blog/training-a-figma-fluent-editing-model/
115•gmays•3d ago•50 comments

How I use AI (Oct 2026)

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/how-use-ai-oct-2026/
164•citelao•14h ago•147 comments

Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM
36•surprisetalk•20h ago•10 comments

There is no posttraining data commons

https://openathena.ai/blog/there-is-no-posttraining-data-commons/
66•lukasschwab•18h ago•21 comments

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29713
331•ibobev•11h ago•51 comments

Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform

https://github.com/finic-ai/kairos
90•ayanb9440•11h ago•22 comments

Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/windows-11-gets-right-click-menu-improvements-as-pc-reven...
71•rbanffy•19h ago•167 comments

Curiosity Traps

https://www.autodidacts.io/curiosity-traps/
74•surprisetalk•1d ago•8 comments

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading

https://honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading
969•syllogism•20h ago•201 comments

AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/ai-stocks-texas-governor-data-centers.html
15•1659447091•1h ago•5 comments

Mac at any scale

https://namespace.so/blog/mac-at-any-scale
376•anner_•17h ago•211 comments

Introduction to Programming in ATS

https://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/book1.html
72•ibobev•13h ago•9 comments

Union Types and Option Types (2025)

https://tibleiz.net/blog/2025-03-16-union-types-and-option-types.html
43•g0xA52A2A•1d ago•19 comments

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/writing-seen-in-pherc-306b-for-the
128•benbreen•1d ago•18 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