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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
438•Philpax•13h ago•138 comments

Accountability mechanisms can be joyful

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/accountability-and-joy/
31•luu•2d ago•3 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
189•ishan0102•11h ago•66 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
177•E-Reverance•11h ago•43 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
344•outlier99•11h ago•223 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
158•ibobev•10h ago•87 comments

Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/
41•thepipetogrep•5h ago•12 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
215•jgx0•9h ago•135 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
542•tosh•21h ago•246 comments

An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
77•leecoursey•2d ago•39 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
104•walrus01•2d ago•48 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
193•vinhnx•2d ago•44 comments

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
150•misterchocolat•5h ago•192 comments

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

https://dryperspective.github.io/posts/complement-of-true/
8•aw1621107•1d ago•0 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
51•stratts•10h ago•31 comments

Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

https://github.com/ahmetomerv/photoc
32•ahmetomer•2d ago•5 comments

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
418•rdmuser•10h ago•304 comments

Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales

https://blue-continuum.com/the-man-who-listens-to-whales
13•dnetesn•1d ago•5 comments

Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones

https://ephemeral.cx/2026/07/protect-your-friends-and-loved-ones/
5•speckx•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster

https://www.stelabouras.com/blog/entombed-raycaster/
20•stelabouras•2d ago•4 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
62•greyface-•1d ago•6 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
41•networked•9h ago•20 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
54•ibobev•9h ago•18 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
196•farslan•18h ago•88 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
251•maguay•22h ago•215 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
154•Vosporos•18h ago•40 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
190•0xedb•1d ago•125 comments

The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
90•rbanffy•4d ago•71 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
719•emptybits•1d ago•557 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
121•mkornaukhov•18h ago•25 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