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Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rabbits-medieval-royal-luxury-england.html
37•samizdis•1d ago•13 comments

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861
341•allinonai•10h ago•164 comments

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
145•Eric_Gullichsen•7h ago•45 comments

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc
303•mdp2021•1d ago•369 comments

Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

https://contextfirst.blog/superlite-hand-an-agent-a-spec/
59•iheatuchriswogu•5h ago•28 comments

Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
402•tosh•14h ago•158 comments

Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

https://www.maddox.pro/?p=448
95•nanochess•3d ago•37 comments

Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action

https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/verisign-com-domain-name-registry-consumer-class-action
61•greyface-•2h ago•16 comments

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
196•gmays•1d ago•122 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
373•RobotToaster•17h ago•57 comments

If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/
115•amrrs•9h ago•80 comments

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
149•sysrpl•12h ago•36 comments

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017
102•theanonymousone•2h ago•32 comments

The DNS Museum

https://dns.museum
47•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

https://github.com/finereli/whatsapp-mcp
85•zoozla•9h ago•45 comments

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
155•dom96•1d ago•111 comments

PalmOS Lemmings

https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings
118•memalign•13h ago•26 comments

How Postgres DELETE can actually scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/scaling-deletions-in-postgres
4•KraftyOne•3d ago•0 comments

One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

https://quentinkaiser.be/security/2026/10/16/one-parser-two-bugs/
71•zoobab•2d ago•15 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
160•hnisjafx40•16h ago•113 comments

A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)

https://verdagon.dev/blog/reverse-borrow-checking
59•verdagon•18h ago•5 comments

Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional

https://www.404media.co/watch-footage-of-the-flock-search-a-judge-ruled-unconstitutional/
86•anigbrowl•5h ago•31 comments

Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994

https://sanitys-edge.shouden.us
21•indigodaddy•6h ago•1 comments

16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1WYyO2jdY
57•oliculipolicula•4d ago•18 comments

"I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html
153•vinipolicena•2d ago•279 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
190•_Microft•19h ago•14 comments

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_doma...
546•sashk•14h ago•283 comments

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html
100•pwg•14h ago•33 comments

"Traditional, but Puzzling"

https://unsung.aresluna.org/traditional-but-puzzling/
42•colinprince•2d ago•7 comments

SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone
127•stmw•4d ago•44 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