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Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN

https://wikihack.netlify.app
44•aizk•2h ago•12 comments

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
1259•roansh•15h ago•223 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
302•soheilpro•2d ago•199 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
87•joonehur•5h ago•8 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
2477•karpathy•1d ago•555 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

292•LecroJS•11h ago•450 comments

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in...
94•_Microft•1d ago•38 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026
66•anurag•6h ago•24 comments

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span
34•EA-3167•6h ago•2 comments

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib
130•raphlinus•3d ago•22 comments

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/
110•luu•4d ago•17 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
156•bogdanoff_2•2d ago•89 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
216•FabCH•18h ago•51 comments

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm
72•stevenalowe•3d ago•33 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
132•Anon84•18h ago•67 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
349•luu•1d ago•267 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
285•smilelamp•13h ago•299 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
146•croes•1d ago•49 comments

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture
78•rdmuser•5h ago•57 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
191•headsupernova•3d ago•41 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
204•misswaterfairy•7h ago•132 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
457•entryleveljobsc•16h ago•157 comments

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages
98•luu•1d ago•145 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
158•slater•4d ago•47 comments

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/
42•TMWNN•2d ago•20 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
87•kevs3d•1d ago•17 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
73•n_plus_1_acc•20h ago•51 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
165•gmays•15h ago•48 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
795•ecares•1d ago•203 comments

I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats

https://chaosmanage.github.io/i-killed-unlimited-chatgpt/
46•gulmothrowaway•14h ago•11 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