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Since Chronium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS

https://scrapfly.dev/posts/browser-math-os-fingerprint/
53•joahnn_s•31m ago•15 comments

Tiny Emulators

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.html
67•naves•1h ago•2 comments

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead
312•systima•3h ago•177 comments

Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/12/storm-clouds-gather-over-americas-fina...
11•pseudolus•39m ago•1 comments

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/
381•subset•10h ago•106 comments

I Learned to Read Again

https://substack.magazinenongrata.com/p/how-i-learned-to-read-again
49•georgex7•3h ago•17 comments

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6
56•brryant•4h ago•7 comments

I love LLMs, I hate hype

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html
223•therepanic•3h ago•124 comments

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/11/irish-datacenters-now-guzzle-23-of-the-countrys-el...
76•Bender•1h ago•42 comments

Why write code in 2026

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07/09/write-code
67•softwaredoug•2d ago•114 comments

Automation Without Understanding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06377
75•root-parent•4h ago•36 comments

The One-Step Trap (In AI Research)

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/OneStepTrap.html
30•jxmorris12•3h ago•5 comments

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

https://www.larp.website/
92•BerislavLopac•4h ago•22 comments

Against Usefulness

https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/against-usefulness
64•supo•3h ago•15 comments

Don't you mean extinct?

https://fabiensanglard.net/extinct/index.html
158•zdw•6h ago•86 comments

The State of MCP Security [pdf]

https://www.canopii.dev/State%20of%20MCP%20Security%202026.pdf
5•mavzer•54m ago•0 comments

How to read more books

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/
216•silcoon•5h ago•120 comments

Deir El-Medina Strikes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes
41•mooreds•5d ago•5 comments

Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels

https://nanduruganesh.github.io/flash-msa/
4•rawsh•57m ago•0 comments

Defining new Jax types with hijax

https://docs.jax.dev/en/latest/hijax_types.html
10•fhchl•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Adaptive Recall, persistent memory for AI assistants over MCP

https://www.adaptiverecall.com/
3•abratabia•35m ago•0 comments

Neocities: Create your own free website

https://neocities.org/
55•Tomte•1h ago•12 comments

Why study Diophantine equations?

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/modular
57•mb1699•5h ago•18 comments

The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/a-no-brainer-for-protecting-your-brain
175•saikatsg•6h ago•143 comments

Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS

https://github.com/cabeen/zen-mode
5•cafebeen•51m ago•1 comments

Understanding the Odin programming language

https://odinbook.com/
137•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•75 comments

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/
44•raahelb•6h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go

https://github.com/hasenj/go-shirei/
69•hsn915•4h ago•37 comments

Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

https://dakra.github.io/ghostel/
250•signa11•12h ago•44 comments

The Seed Beneath the Snow

https://eli.li/the-seed-beneath-the-snow
6•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 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