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Does Georgism work? Five years later

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
297•silveraxe93•1d ago•207 comments

Go Concurrency Distilled

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
194•chmaynard•17h ago•60 comments

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip
41•blutack•1d ago•6 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
399•Qision•1d ago•216 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
235•shenli3514•13h ago•79 comments

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-...
32•torutofu•19h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
287•jpwalsh234•14h ago•80 comments

Kidnapping kids remains legal in USA, this site has you experience it first-hand

https://elan.school/
4•bingowasthename•1h ago•0 comments

What is the size of Yemen? (2024)

https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen
143•kspacewalk2•5h ago•26 comments

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
158•momentmaker•2d ago•26 comments

Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview

https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move
35•fagnerbrack•7h ago•26 comments

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike

https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-might-not-be-quantum-but-its-math-is-quantumlike-20260923/
60•pseudolus•2d ago•22 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
392•ksec•22h ago•100 comments

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-...
254•MC995•1d ago•594 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
143•parasitid•16h ago•41 comments

Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue

https://francisbach.com/spectral_log_density_estimation/
26•matt_d•1d ago•0 comments

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html
74•pwg•14h ago•10 comments

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/
84•apsec112•1d ago•91 comments

Bob Mackie dressed stars–if they were brave enough

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/09/24/bob-mackie-dressed-stars-if-they-were-brave-enough
7•andsoitis•1d ago•1 comments

Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model

https://www.privatemode.ai/blog/system-one-from-glm-flash
84•flxflx•16h ago•30 comments

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

https://dashbit.co/blog/evolving-ai-era
87•pjm331•2d ago•54 comments

Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/09/snap-wants-to-be-a-state-actor-kansas-v-snap.htm
43•hn_acker•1d ago•11 comments

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
191•azhenley•2d ago•171 comments

Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2026/fup_26_116-enceladus-cassini-mikroben-s...
52•geox•1d ago•25 comments

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages

http://jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-languages
42•surprisetalk•1d ago•17 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
217•signa11•22h ago•264 comments

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

https://ampdot.mesh.host/token-space-fonts.html
58•z-mach9•1d ago•12 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
170•birdculture•2d ago•74 comments

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-re...
67•bucket2015•12h ago•13 comments

The Evolution of Vending Machines

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vend...
33•ohjeez•15h ago•11 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