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The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM Problem: When a 'Better' Display Becomes Worse to Use

https://macanorak.com/the-macbook-pros-oled-pwm-problem-when-a-better-display-becomes-worse-to-use/
79•MacAnorak•1h ago•40 comments

SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
1410•ls612•17h ago•935 comments

Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-positional-embeddings
44•vismit2000•2h ago•0 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
27•ksec•1h ago•3 comments

Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37775
112•Skyfall106•5h ago•69 comments

Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages

https://www.crissyfield.de/research/lovable-en/
913•armcat•21h ago•344 comments

Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case

https://litnews.ai/articles/garciaguirre-samsung-sk-hynix-micron-dram-conspiracy-suit-survives-di...
322•ybathaee•13h ago•129 comments

What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model

https://operator0x.com/field-notes/qwen-conversation-state-space/
41•josip208•2d ago•10 comments

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 483 (I'm Not a Freezer)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-banffy-httpbis-not-a-freezer/
6•rbanffy•18m ago•5 comments

A NES emulator written in Odin

https://lucypero.com/lucynes.html
15•frostbyte7•1h ago•0 comments

The Telephone Changed the World

https://lithub.com/how-the-telephone-changed-the-world/
7•NaOH•15h ago•0 comments

Chasing an audio artifact on power loss

https://subalpinecircuits.com/chasing-an-audio-artifact-on-power-loss/
16•ireflect•2d ago•1 comments

Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/us/politics/lutnick-pushed-to-weaken-chip-rules-that-overlap-w...
91•JumpCrisscross•3h ago•23 comments

Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdmdzv25r9o
42•nephihaha•2d ago•24 comments

How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957
256•Skyfall106•16h ago•133 comments

Disk encryption on NetBSD – achieving secrecy

https://netbsd.org/~nia/disk-encrypt/
66•jaypatelani•9h ago•14 comments

My favourite modern NES games

https://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/25-of-my-favourite-modern-nes-games/
146•jordigh•12h ago•19 comments

Strictly monotonic timestamps and gapless sequences in Rust

https://tsoracle.rs/
21•znano•2d ago•8 comments

KDE: The documentary [video]

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/fFinNHfanLT7aBEb2B8y4c
529•mrkn1•1d ago•121 comments

How to read codes from (many) IR remote controls with as little code as possible

https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2026/11/how-to-read-codes-from-many-ir-remote.html
4•speckx•3d ago•0 comments

A family tree of software job titles

https://zwischenzugs.com/2026/11/03/a-family-tree-of-software-job-titles/
368•umerf•21h ago•184 comments

Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons

https://www.niklasroy.com/carton-clock/
23•r0r0•2d ago•1 comments

Open-Source HF Communications for Remote Communities and Experimenters

https://www.ardc.net/rhizomaticas-hermes-and-mercury-expand-open-source-hf-communications-for-rem...
41•tejtm•4d ago•5 comments

Semicircle Packing

https://rorz.io/writing/semicircle-packing
57•sarreph•2d ago•5 comments

Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone?

https://so.long.thanks.fish/why-pi-when-i-have-an-old-phone/
590•casi•5d ago•312 comments

The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolving-story-of-how-chemistry-became-biology-20261112/
69•pseudolus•2d ago•16 comments

PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-11-06-ui-updates-complete/
259•rbanffy•23h ago•114 comments

500 Lines or Less A 3D Modeller

https://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-3d-modeller.html
80•myth_drannon•2d ago•11 comments

Book list for streetfighting computer scientists

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Book_list_for_streetfighting_computer_scientists
70•num42•7h ago•27 comments

Project Zero will disclose vulnerabilities 90 days after reporting

https://projectzero.google/2026/11/disclosure-policy.html
292•hacb•1d ago•165 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