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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?t=1
906•imdsm•1h ago•727 comments

How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunnel/index.html
218•billiob•5h ago•31 comments

GoSign Desktop RCE flaws affecting users in Italy

https://www.ush.it/2025/11/14/multiple-vulnerabilities-gosign-desktop-remote-code-execution/
18•ascii•52m ago•2 comments

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hwgaNKeH
174•Topfi•1h ago•97 comments

The Miracle of Wörgl

https://scf.green/story-of-worgl-and-others/
35•simonebrunozzi•2h ago•17 comments

The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/the_uselessness_of_fast/
42•zdw•6d ago•14 comments

How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-ncaa-basketball
258•bbayles•4d ago•59 comments

Ruby Symbols

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-symbols/
37•stonecharioteer•5d ago•23 comments

Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/mutexes
88•commandersaki•6d ago•97 comments

Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/
1187•random_moonwalk•5d ago•201 comments

The surprising benefits of giving up

https://nautil.us/the-surprising-benefits-of-giving-up-1248362/
114•jnord•8h ago•94 comments

When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

https://www.infoq.com/articles/scaling-reverse-proxies/
57•miggy•4d ago•5 comments

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-aisuru-botnet-used-500-000-ips-in-15-tb...
383•speckx•19h ago•259 comments

Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

https://github.com/rust9x/rust
107•kristianp•10h ago•61 comments

Compiling Ruby to machine language

https://patshaughnessy.net/2025/11/17/compiling-ruby-to-machine-language
262•todsacerdoti•17h ago•46 comments

My stages of learning to be a socially normal person

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-six-stages-of-learning-to-be-a
514•eatitraw•3d ago•348 comments

Rebecca Heineman has died

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-designer-programmer-space-invaders-champio...
631•shdon•12h ago•107 comments

Langfuse (YC W23) Hiring OSS Support Engineers in Berlin and SF

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/langfuse/5ff18d4d-9066-4c67-8ecc-ffc0e295fee6
1•clemo_ra•6h ago

Multiple Digital Ocean services down

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/lgt5xs2843rx
17•inanothertime•41m ago•5 comments

Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

https://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-lik...
411•doener•2d ago•79 comments

A/B Tests over Evals

https://www.raindrop.ai/blog/thoughts-on-evals/
4•Nischalj10•4d ago•1 comments

Project Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/
301•andsoitis•21h ago•170 comments

Practice answers with yourself. I made a thing that I didn't want to pay for

https://look.imwithstupid.fun
8•samrocksc•6d ago•2 comments

FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools

https://github.com/medusalix/FreeMDU
314•Medusalix•23h ago•83 comments

LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544
58•nothrowaways•10h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye
129•kaushiksrini•13h ago•30 comments

Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-wi...
521•jinxmeta•13h ago•460 comments

Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware

https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix
105•doener•15h ago•26 comments

Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-showing-early-signs-of-domestication/
178•pavel_lishin•3d ago•141 comments

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/
273•meetpateltech•22h ago•123 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•7mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•7mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•7mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•7mo 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•7mo ago
^
mertleee•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•7mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•7mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•7mo 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•7mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•7mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•6mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•7mo 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•7mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•7mo 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•7mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•7mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•6mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D