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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history

https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/
96•madrox•1h ago•47 comments

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-diseas...
91•theanonymousone•2h ago•58 comments

Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died

https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing
34•Jimmc414•1h ago•1 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
318•randycupertino•7h ago•219 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
54•felixbraun•2h ago•17 comments

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...
198•gmays•9h ago•69 comments

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really
66•AnodicElegy•4h ago•34 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians
369•rzk•5h ago•329 comments

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV
212•dmitrygr•1d ago•287 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/
21•ingve•2h ago•2 comments

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/
383•tosh•12h ago•85 comments

The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts

https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/
45•Jimmc414•1h ago•21 comments

SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)

https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/
7•hunzaboy•1h ago•1 comments

A spectre is haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
152•sensanaty•9h ago•46 comments

Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf]

https://xescu.re/keeta-consensus.pdf
10•xescure•1h ago•1 comments

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer
1•wweissbluth•5h ago

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...
28•dgellow•4h ago•3 comments

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

https://github.com/wmww/tawc
32•schmorptron•5h ago•2 comments

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
44•firefax•2h ago•6 comments

Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/
248•allenb•13h ago•166 comments

Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax

https://github.com/abhiramasonny/jaithon
11•AbhiramaVS•4d ago•8 comments

Humazon

https://hughhowey.com/humazon/
14•herbertl•3h ago•6 comments

Pizza Box Project Stack

https://cblgh.org/posts/2026-07-31-pizza-box-project-stack/
25•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/16/2d-gaussian-splatting-for-bezier-spline-line-art-ve...
57•Jimmc414•23h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/
191•BaselAshraf81•5d ago•91 comments

Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game

https://geek-fighter.vercel.app/
45•tareqismail•5d ago•26 comments

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

https://linebender.org/blog/hyperbezier/
183•raphlinus•6d ago•33 comments

An image can overflow

https://master.dev/blog/something-nobody-told-you-about-the-image-element-it-can-overflow/
11•ibobev•4d ago•4 comments

A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x
150•jeffreyrogers•7h ago•68 comments

Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL

https://printytron.com
63•statenjason•9h ago•28 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