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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

282•paveworld•4h ago•52 comments

Why don't more developers "use the platform"?

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
30•vinhnx•1h ago•16 comments

So you think you could be an electrician?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician
97•zdw•3d ago•49 comments

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/
312•elffjs•4h ago•159 comments

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
199•speckx•9h ago•23 comments

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
126•CosmoWenman•11h ago•65 comments

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
259•trwhite•11h ago•62 comments

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
106•kmeh•12h ago•62 comments

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-do...
172•gscott•2d ago•42 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/
127•citelao•8h ago•61 comments

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
552•bastitx•19h ago•310 comments

Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuxo6SA8Uc
24•bobajeff•1d ago•7 comments

Your body of work thinks back at you

https://photoni.st/index.php/2026/09/25/your-body-of-work-thinks-back-at-you/
38•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

The characters of plastics (2024)

https://yarchive.net/blog/plastics/
12•thelastgallon•22h ago•2 comments

Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web

https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-ai-agents
16•effects•1d ago•0 comments

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

https://ftl-os.org/
160•romac•14h ago•63 comments

Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program

https://www.twz.com/air/former-sr-71-engineer-talks-nasas-blackbird-revival-program
34•rkagerer•21h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

https://thoreaubasic.com/
42•Gorsefound•21h ago•13 comments

Religious scholars met with Anthropic

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html
54•bookofjoe•2h ago•78 comments

We're working on a new RuneScape MMO

https://play.runescape.com/4
10•droidjj•4h ago•4 comments

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_Uz...
125•Brajeshwar•15h ago•377 comments

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
60•simonjgreen•8h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

https://pipod.dev/
85•edverma2•1d ago•31 comments

Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

http://www.darbiansphotography.com/woking-electrical-control-room-urbex
132•NaOH•1d ago•26 comments

Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

https://halide.cx/blog/wpd/
50•computerbuster•23h ago•15 comments

Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)

https://dave.recoil.org/docker-has-always-used-microvms/
29•avsm•13h ago•19 comments

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/
386•sbulaev•7h ago•219 comments

C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights
149•rramadass•2d ago•28 comments

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retailready/jobs/bFcgIe4-implementations
1•sarah74•12h ago

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

https://blog.willmeye.rs/new-york-city-should-carefully-measure-a-new-tree/
60•willmeyers•1d ago•10 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