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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll
859•verditelabs•7h ago•197 comments

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
227•bilsbie•1h ago•88 comments

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/
78•babelfish•2h ago•11 comments

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

https://explorer.oxide.computer/
266•darthcloud•3d ago•111 comments

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
48•tosh•3h ago•12 comments

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
51•exploraz•2d ago•12 comments

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology
243•porridgeraisin•8h ago•142 comments

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge
166•engomez•7h ago•77 comments

Om Malik has died

https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/
266•minimaxir•3h ago•26 comments

Parallel Parentheses Matching

https://williamdue.github.io/blog/parallel-parentheses-matching
39•Athas•3h ago•7 comments

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus

https://www.nijho.lt/post/proxmox-to-nixos/
27•wasting_time•2h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

https://princechazz.com
189•cowboy_henk•4d ago•66 comments

The Doorman's Fallacy in action

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/17
35•rozumem•3h ago•56 comments

Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-25
203•kouosi•9h ago•79 comments

OS9Map

https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/
167•LaSombra•8h ago•25 comments

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyroc...
589•virgildotcodes•10h ago•841 comments

Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/military-branches-restore-flu-shot-requirement-after-virus...
42•tzs•1h ago•13 comments

The annotated PyTorch training loop

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/pytorch-training-loop
49•smaddrellmander•2d ago•9 comments

Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/besimple-ai/jobs/yWfhhOR-strategic-projects-lead-audio-data
1•yzhong94•6h ago

The last Romans are still around

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/20/the-last-romans-are-still-around/
25•surprisetalk•3d ago•46 comments

GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton11-1
46•d3Xt3r•1d ago•13 comments

You can't unit test for taste

https://dev.karltryggvason.com/you-cant-unit-test-for-taste/
236•kalli•1d ago•113 comments

RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (2012) [pdf]

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api/core/bitstreams/e5d662ea-1e8d-4dda-b917-8cbb8bb40bf9/content
31•azhenley•1d ago•7 comments

Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs

https://github.com/decrazyo/anes
91•zdw•2d ago•30 comments

Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

https://hackernewstrends.com
629•ytkimirti•9h ago•143 comments

Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

https://trakkr.ai/bias
102•mektrik•10h ago•207 comments

The disappearance of Japan's animators

https://economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/06/19/the-strange-disappearance-of-japans-animators
131•andsoitis•4d ago•105 comments

Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking

https://pete.design/tw-fade
83•petekp•3d ago•30 comments

OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intelligence.html
78•mfiguiere•3h ago•53 comments

I built a GPU back end for Emacs

https://en.andros.dev/blog/4b707a03/how-i-built-a-gpu-backend-for-emacs/
167•andros•2d ago•84 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