frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

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

Lewis Carroll Computed Determinants

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/10/lewis-carroll-determinants/
42•tzury•1h ago•5 comments

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations

https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations
130•astronads•3h ago•44 comments

How uv got so fast

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html
27•zdw•3h ago•2 comments

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
473•birdculture•7h ago•261 comments

Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways

https://github.com/NullandKale/NullSplats
9•nullandkale•1h ago•1 comments

My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the/
61•davisr•1h ago•8 comments

LearnixOS

https://www.learnix-os.com
149•gtirloni•7h ago•53 comments

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984
150•merlindru•2h ago•15 comments

C/C++ Embedded Files (2013)

https://www.4rknova.com//blog/2013/01/27/cpp-embedded-files
34•ibobev•3h ago•29 comments

Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&...
874•christoph-heiss•6h ago•847 comments

Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700
50•isitcontent•5h ago•13 comments

Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA
20•surprisetalk•6d ago•10 comments

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/23/
80•rcarmo•7h ago•5 comments

Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago

https://acadlisp.de/noscript.html
52•holg•4h ago•27 comments

Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/
171•nabla9•1h ago•79 comments

ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0

https://railsatscale.com/2025-12-24-launch-zjit/
45•ibobev•3h ago•19 comments

The Algebra of Loans in Rust

https://nadrieril.github.io/blog/2025/12/21/the-algebra-of-loans-in-rust.html
159•g0xA52A2A•4d ago•76 comments

Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami

https://stanislas.blog/2025/12/migrating-matomo-to-umami-web-analytics/
5•angristan•2d ago•0 comments

High School Student Discovers 1.5M Potential New Astronomical Objects

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/high-school-student-discovers-1-5-million-potential-new...
85•mhb•5h ago•78 comments

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/james-baldwin-joan-didion-92ny-recordings.html
80•tintinnabula•4d ago•18 comments

Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast

https://github.com/PwnFunction/sandbox
21•vortex_ape•1w ago•1 comments

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr
28•pranshuparmar•5h ago•6 comments

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models

https://github.com/thu-ml/TurboDiffusion
209•meander_water•17h ago•41 comments

A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Dec/a-proclamation-regarding-the-restoration-of-the-dash/
73•BeetleB•2h ago•77 comments

Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/obituaries/inge-lehmann-overlooked.html
57•Hooke•3d ago•13 comments

An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09827-w
68•giuliomagnifico•5d ago•44 comments

Bedlam Cube Solved (ALL 19,186 solutions)

http://scottkurowski.com/BedlamCube/
25•kristianp•4d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players

https://gamingcouch.com
381•ChaosOp•5d ago•106 comments

The First Web Server

https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-web-server/
39•giuliomagnifico•9h ago•6 comments

Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith

https://catalinionescu.dev/ai-agent/building-ai-agent-part-1/
97•cionescu1•12h ago•41 comments