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443•tambourine_man•4h ago•705 comments

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/
93•_vaporwave_•1h ago•9 comments

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html
161•chizhik-pyzhik•3h ago•67 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
170•HenryNdubuaku•3h ago•51 comments

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-t...
265•nilirl•6h ago•137 comments

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol
105•aduffy•4h ago•23 comments

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/
242•xz18r•6h ago•99 comments

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/
362•ibobev•8h ago•34 comments

Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/
82•devhouse•4h ago•69 comments

Beyond Semantic Similarity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05242
20•44za12•2h ago•2 comments

Learning Software Architecture

https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html
490•surprisetalk•12h ago•97 comments

Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim

https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim
47•fedek_•4h ago•21 comments

Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents

https://voker.ai
32•ttpost•6h ago•19 comments

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
950•rubenbe•7h ago•326 comments

Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable

https://github.com/statewright/statewright
45•azurewraith•7h ago•11 comments

Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?

https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
9•Brajeshwar•4h ago•11 comments

Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/los-angeles-subway-public-transportation
24•raybb•1d ago•5 comments

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
621•adunk•16h ago•323 comments

Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper
40•sai18•4h ago•18 comments

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f
85•luispa•4d ago•25 comments

Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillanc...
177•Brajeshwar•4h ago•54 comments

We accidentally recreated old Facebook

https://amrshawky.com/posts/we-accidentally-recreated-fb/
33•amr_shawky•2d ago•21 comments

Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

30•namanyayg•5h ago•8 comments

Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pa...
194•Cider9986•18h ago•188 comments

SQL: Incorrect by Construction

https://chreke.com/posts/sql-incorrect-by-construction
22•ingve•3h ago•21 comments

Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/text-blaze/jobs/P4CCN62-the-blaze-no-ai-summer-internship
1•scottfr•9h ago

The Real Story of Troy

https://storica.club/blog/troy-was-real/
43•cemsakarya•2d ago•18 comments

Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/meta-us-employees-organize-protest-against-...
24•delichon•57m ago•12 comments

The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-surprisingly-long-life-of-the
54•surprisetalk•1d ago•35 comments

Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want

https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/12/snowflake-postgres-lakebase-horizondb-picking-the-lock-in-yo...
16•samaysharma•2h ago•4 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