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The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/
28•mvdtnz•1h ago•7 comments

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
197•hhs•8h ago•68 comments

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
534•speckx•15h ago•185 comments

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
921•stock_toaster•10h ago•458 comments

What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications

https://neciudan.dev/most-secure-way-to-store-auth-token
5•freediver•1h ago•0 comments

An iroh powered smart fan

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/an-iroh-powered-smart-fan
81•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
167•chmaynard•11h ago•158 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
427•scrlk•12h ago•332 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-sate...
156•CrankyBear•13h ago•454 comments

AI 2040: Plan A

https://ai-2040.com/
224•kschaul•1d ago•229 comments

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
399•theanonymousone•20h ago•189 comments

Combustion engine web-based simulator

https://combustionlab.net
154•mytuny•5d ago•64 comments

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
354•dmonay•19h ago•241 comments

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
209•markus_zhang•14h ago•73 comments

Silent speech with ultrasound

https://alephneuro.com/blog/silent-speech
38•chrwn•3d ago•11 comments

The Lindy effect in software

https://www.clemsau.com/posts/the-lindy-effect-in-software/
9•ankitg12•3d ago•9 comments

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference
65•theanonymousone•4d ago•26 comments

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
124•simonpure•15h ago•85 comments

New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
493•randycupertino•12h ago•246 comments

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-f...
115•aviaviavi•17h ago•140 comments

The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters

https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/the-footgun-of-right-to-left-decorative-characters
33•dado3212•4d ago•18 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-s...
178•simonebrunozzi•14h ago•138 comments

Alternate clock designs and time systems

https://serialc.github.io/altClocks/
132•ethanpil•4d ago•71 comments

Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019)

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2019/01/09/preemption-is-gc-for-memory-reordering/
26•mpweiher•2d ago•6 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/
69•djfergus•10h ago•16 comments

Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moss/jobs/52LnqLQ-software-engineer-sdk
1•srimalireddi•9h ago

A love letter to flashcards

https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/
146•surprisetalk•15h ago•92 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

https://waratlas.org
142•NaOH•13h ago•60 comments

Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15956159/Incredible-lost-city-discovered-Egypts-des...
172•Bender•4d ago•98 comments

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
846•vforno•1d ago•210 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