frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

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

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

https://www.gutenberg.org/
813•JSeiko•12h ago•182 comments

Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

https://ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/
34•jibcage•3d ago•11 comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
1050•reasonableklout•8h ago•459 comments

Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64

https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending
65•ibobev•14h ago•7 comments

The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)

https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
86•tomjakubowski•5h ago•76 comments

The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/
53•sohkamyung•1d ago•11 comments

Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/
81•lukeplato•1d ago•6 comments

England Runestones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_runestones
12•cl3misch•2d ago•0 comments

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/
57•redbell•5h ago•10 comments

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html
351•happyhardcore•15h ago•166 comments

How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf
67•matt_d•6h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/
34•jolaflow•4h ago•10 comments

NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things (2022)

https://gwern.net/vaping
53•Ariarule•4h ago•10 comments

California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-ca...
404•Lihh27•9h ago•244 comments

ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board

https://www.autodidacts.io/cerelog-esp-eeg-affordable-openbci-like-board/
35•surprisetalk•2d ago•13 comments

The sigmoids won't save you

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you
175•Tomte•18h ago•175 comments

Erlang/OTP 29.0

https://www.erlang.org/news/188
150•pyinstallwoes•5h ago•16 comments

I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan

https://gardinerbryant.com/i-bought-a-junk-psp-from-japan-heres-how-it-went/
21•Kate0CoolLibby•3d ago•10 comments

I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator

https://github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator
93•gdevic•11h ago•32 comments

The Zulip Foundation

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/
238•boramalper•10h ago•62 comments

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image

https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster
144•MattRogish•13h ago•28 comments

'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens

https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/
267•alligatorplum•4h ago•117 comments

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-...
398•tencentshill•11h ago•268 comments

ASCII by Jason Scott

https://ascii.textfiles.com/
165•bookofjoe•15h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/
130•c1b•1d ago•33 comments

Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution

https://github.com/chiennv2000/orthrus
20•FranckDernoncou•6h ago•2 comments

Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

https://radicle.dev/
227•KolmogorovComp•17h ago•76 comments

Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water...
175•drob518•11h ago•170 comments

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208
290•cmsparks•10h ago•139 comments

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

https://hightouch.com/careers
1•joshwget•12h ago