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How Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
169•rbanffy•1h ago•87 comments

Claude partial outage

https://status.claude.com/incidents/4xvtc2gnq73l
42•sidcool•17m ago•16 comments

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
298•damaru2•5h ago•99 comments

Without the Hot Air

https://www.withouthotair.com/
48•0sake_rs•2h ago•26 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
122•nicowaltz•3h ago•50 comments

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
373•barry-cotter•3h ago•323 comments

500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-s...
236•ilamont•3h ago•157 comments

What makes software development engineering

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/44.html
12•ibobev•1h ago•12 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
109•czoido•6h ago•27 comments

US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software...
243•mywacaday•2h ago•161 comments

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/
17•ibobev•1d ago•2 comments

Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/28/metas-new-ai-agent-blatantly-ignores-users-permissions
22•dkobia•27m ago•2 comments

Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/29/google-ending-chromeos-support-two-years-earl...
15•rbanffy•30m ago•8 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
195•evakhoury•22h ago•29 comments

1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622
48•colinprince•2h ago•17 comments

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-fo...
129•doener•1d ago•69 comments

Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI

https://github.com/EverMind-AI/Raven
34•cyfyifanchen•4h ago•25 comments

The systems that no one will test

https://blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/the-systems-that-no-one-will-test/
109•perone•1d ago•43 comments

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for...
298•randycupertino•18h ago•742 comments

Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound

https://jevstiller.pages.dev/posts/the-guarantee/
7•tgluck•2h ago•1 comments

Software occlusion culling in Block Game

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/
62•airhangerf15•2d ago•4 comments

Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote

https://countingfromzero.blog/2026/04/24/four-chi-26-papers-i-wish-i-wrote/
29•luu•2d ago•6 comments

The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-beatles-permeated-papers-academic-disciplines.html
14•pseudolus•2d ago•8 comments

Pirating the Pirates

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
644•piotrgrabowski•22h ago•329 comments

Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/optimizing-x264-settings-and-per-title-ladders.html
18•dabinat•2d ago•1 comments

Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland

https://www.startup-nights.ch/event/
40•sschueller•6h ago•23 comments

Tank Body Problem

http://www.jimsitu.com
155•jimbooonooo•14h ago•33 comments

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/
264•logicallee•19h ago•97 comments

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster
132•nkko•17h ago•29 comments

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/gobeklitepe-burials-hundreds-of-scattered-bones/
156•yusufaytas•3d ago•43 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