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If You Don't Design Your Career, Someone Else Will

https://gregmckeown.com/if-you-dont-design-your-career-someone-else-will/
22•TheAlchemist•54m ago•11 comments

The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251219-the-ancient-monuments-saluting-the-winter-solstice
33•1659447091•1h ago•15 comments

Inverse Parentheses

https://kellett.im/a/inverse-parentheses
44•mighty-fine•2h ago•39 comments

A guide to local coding models

https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude
438•mpweiher•14h ago•237 comments

Programming languages used for music

https://timthompson.com/plum/cgi/showlist.cgi?sort=name&concise=yes
50•ofalkaed•1d ago•11 comments

Well Being in Times of Algorithms

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/well-being-algorithms/
13•articsputnik•1h ago•4 comments

Deliberate Internet Shutdowns

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html
196•WaitWaitWha•3d ago•79 comments

How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers

https://her.esy.fun/posts/0031-how-i-protect-my-forgejo-instance-from-ai-web-crawlers/index.html
38•todsacerdoti•20h ago•27 comments

Build Android apps using Rust and Iced

https://github.com/ibaryshnikov/android-iced-example
95•rekireki•9h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

https://hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app
471•seinvak•19h ago•167 comments

I'm just having fun

https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/
371•lemper•6d ago•157 comments

Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-exp...
67•taubek•2d ago•15 comments

Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/robotic-olaf-marks-new-era-of-disney-innovation/
198•ChrisArchitect•13h ago•79 comments

Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/Channel_Errors
9•Pikamander2•2h ago•0 comments

Kernighan's Lever

https://linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.php
68•xk3•2d ago•26 comments

Engineering dogmas it's time to retire

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/5-engineering-dogmas-its-time-to
24•flail•3d ago•32 comments

Aliasing

https://xania.org/202512/15-aliasing-in-general
41•ibobev•6d ago•6 comments

Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript

https://www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flocking-quadtrees
52•lbj•6d ago•3 comments

CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally

https://spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-energy-storage
254•rbanffy•19h ago•211 comments

Lightning: Real-time editing for tiled map data

https://felt.com/blog/lightning-tiles
12•hinting•5d ago•3 comments

More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425
91•A_D_E_P_T•14h ago•72 comments

ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16

https://ym2132.github.io/ONNX_MLProgram_NN_exploration
71•Two_hands•10h ago•15 comments

Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go

https://rue-lang.dev/
153•ingve•14h ago•118 comments

Making the most of bit arrays in Gleam

https://gearsco.de/blog/bit-array-syntax/
27•crowdhailer•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rust/WASM lighting data toolkit – parses legacy formats, generates SVGs

https://eulumdat.icu
29•holg•14h ago•0 comments

I program on the subway

https://www.scd31.com/posts/programming-on-the-subway
230•evankhoury•5d ago•157 comments

QBasic64 Phoenix 4.3.0 Released

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4244
37•jandeboevrie•3h ago•5 comments

Cursed circuits #3: true mathematics

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/cursed-circuits-3-true-mathematics
23•zdw•6h ago•3 comments

Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/
388•alentodorov•19h ago•103 comments

Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems

https://www.worldsbacklog.com/
4•anticlickwise•2h ago•2 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