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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
707•Eric_Gullichsen•8h ago•295 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
101•teleforce•6h ago•30 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
465•gmays•16h ago•215 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
1306•sancho-panza•14h ago•724 comments

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/
64•mroche•7h ago•77 comments

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5
89•Michelangelo11•2h ago•81 comments

Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ab81e9a97a13f0001f7e4e1/postgres-at-time-zone-u-does-not-do-what-...
23•birdculture•23h ago•11 comments

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
98•evakhoury•15h ago•43 comments

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHmDnUZCm8
30•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

Made by Mechanical Means

https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
21•cocoflunchy•3h ago•5 comments

Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-are-now-nine-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-driv...
13•xbmcuser•52m ago•5 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
136•midnightfish•14h ago•42 comments

Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account

https://www.threads.com/@matt.j.robb/post/DdxwAJnDhNy
46•embedding-shape•2h ago•38 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
199•mooreds•14h ago•77 comments

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal
84•arbayi•2d ago•39 comments

Lunar Terminator Paradox

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
75•dima55•13h ago•51 comments

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
156•verdagon•2d ago•38 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
242•birdculture•17h ago•111 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
246•danso•19h ago•94 comments

Deterministic Concurrency [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x0UuSCKuU
36•surprisetalk•2d ago•3 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
107•bingden•15h ago•32 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/
250•safaelmali•15h ago•112 comments

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

https://github.com/deepfates/imp
76•mpweiher•14h ago•7 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
176•surprisetalk•20h ago•93 comments

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-det...
138•utiiiD•1d ago•86 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
48•zeristor•1d ago•18 comments

SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching...
6•geox•1h ago•0 comments

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
90•gregsadetsky•2d ago•33 comments

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
156•ibobev•2d ago•119 comments

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM
78•Rochus•16h ago•24 comments
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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