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We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together

https://akrites.org/letter/
276•dhruv3006•7h ago•132 comments

Om Malik has died

https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/
991•minimaxir•16h ago•120 comments

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll
1384•verditelabs•21h ago•291 comments

Libre Barcode Project

https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/
196•luu•9h ago•32 comments

Bipartite Matching Is in NC

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9851
23•amichail•3d ago•0 comments

Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

https://github.com/mondaycom/HATCHA
46•backlit4034•42m ago•46 comments

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/
222•Alupis•11h ago•114 comments

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/
216•cuchoi•10h ago•81 comments

22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/handwritten-notebook-discovered-major-paris/
99•thunderbong•5d ago•21 comments

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
820•bilsbie•15h ago•375 comments

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023)

https://gchandbook.org/
171•teleforce•13h ago•31 comments

Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter

https://github.com/DDecoene/WebBaseIII
7•ddecoene•2d ago•0 comments

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
252•exploraz•3d ago•49 comments

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

https://explorer.oxide.computer/
401•darthcloud•3d ago•163 comments

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology
339•porridgeraisin•21h ago•183 comments

Microbubbles in Medicine

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/microbubbles/
15•Jimmc414•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge
300•engomez•20h ago•149 comments

Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark

https://twitter.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095
414•mmunj•1d ago•170 comments

Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

https://princechazz.com
338•cowboy_henk•5d ago•111 comments

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/
159•babelfish•15h ago•39 comments

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
137•tosh•16h ago•50 comments

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyroc...
753•virgildotcodes•23h ago•1090 comments

Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-25
249•kouosi•22h ago•125 comments

OS9Map

https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/
238•LaSombra•21h ago•46 comments

The Doorman's Fallacy in action

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/17
139•rozumem•16h ago•196 comments

Doing a masters while working in Spain

https://jan-herlyn.com/blog/doing-a-masters-while-working/
63•MHard•4d ago•43 comments

Record type inference for dummies

http://haskellforall.com/2026/06/record-type-inference-for-dummies
53•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•2 comments

Parallel Parentheses Matching

https://williamdue.github.io/blog/parallel-parentheses-matching
101•Athas•16h ago•13 comments

The last Romans are still around

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/20/the-last-romans-are-still-around/
110•surprisetalk•3d ago•149 comments

You can't unit test for taste

https://dev.karltryggvason.com/you-cant-unit-test-for-taste/
289•kalli•2d ago•129 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