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329•lopespm•5h ago•71 comments

Writing by hand is good for your brain

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
1058•dwwoelfel•13h ago•504 comments

The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin

https://reprodev.com/the-corporate-creep-of-plex-why-it-may-be-time-to-move-to-jellyfin-and-the-o...
29•reprodev•1h ago•20 comments

The Visual 6502

http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
69•infiniteregrets•4h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

266•adam_rida•8h ago•131 comments

The Beam Engine

https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/
204•glinscott•1d ago•62 comments

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open...
783•theanonymousone•12h ago•691 comments

What happened to TheNumbers.com

https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
315•nickthegreek•11h ago•140 comments

What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

https://rybakov.com/blog/what_else_do_people_draw_on_gradient-copy.horse/
64•spython•5d ago•12 comments

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md
218•dhorthy•12h ago•170 comments

Freeze-Casting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-casting
12•soupspaces•4d ago•2 comments

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
259•mpweiher•13h ago•50 comments

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

https://learnopengl.com/
201•ibobev•13h ago•104 comments

Building on ATProto

https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/
137•speckx•9h ago•66 comments

Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI

https://github.com/palmier-io/palmier-pro
131•harrisontin•12h ago•20 comments

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-us-air-force-fly-ai-controlled-f-16
198•r2sk5t•14h ago•221 comments

Fractl.art – a fractal generator with 8 octillion different patterns

https://fractl.art
22•gilded-lilly•3d ago•3 comments

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2610/
203•MarcoDewey•14h ago•76 comments

Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

63•louis030195•11h ago•50 comments

A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09369
65•amelius•5h ago•51 comments

Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond

https://www.the-scientist.com/police-removed-prominent-scientists-from-the-ada-meeting-researcher...
38•fosco•1h ago•13 comments

A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements
78•MarcoDewey•9h ago•22 comments

Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds

https://wuemeli.com/blog/sulfur-part-1/
59•wuemeli•3d ago•18 comments

OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
422•abhisek•1d ago•344 comments

The arguments against open source AI are bad

https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/
224•jjfoooo4•11h ago•157 comments

Mourning Dan Williams

https://lwn.net/Articles/1084545/
42•speckx•8h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you

https://github.com/izeigerman/claude-thermos
87•s0ck_r4w•10h ago•71 comments

Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
83•Jonathanfishner•12h ago•29 comments

Learn WebGPU for C++

https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/
92•ibobev•13h ago•12 comments

Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust

https://soteria-tools.com/blog/meta-garbage-collection
61•annieversary•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