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28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset

https://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/example-datasets/hackernews-vector-search-dataset
225•walterbell•3h ago•84 comments

Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Network

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/
169•tymscar•3h ago•64 comments

Molly: An Improved Signal App

https://molly.im/
119•dtj1123•3h ago•49 comments

So you wanna build a local RAG?

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/local-rag
130•pedriquepacheco•4h ago•30 comments

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-harnesses-for-long-running-agents
33•diwank•2h ago•5 comments

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/getting-a-webserver-running
63•joexbayer•4h ago•9 comments

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html
76•azinman2•4h ago•21 comments

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)

https://blog.plover.com/2016/07/01/#tmpdir
87•todsacerdoti•5h ago•25 comments

The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)

https://github.com/gvanrossum/abc-unix
17•tony•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ

https://473999.net/pulse
30•473999•2h ago•7 comments

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network

https://github.com/JB-SelfCompany/Tyr
76•basemi•4h ago•12 comments

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft
198•robtherobber•5h ago•184 comments

Lobsters Interview

https://susam.net/my-lobsters-interview.html
46•blenderob•4h ago•23 comments

JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-24-json-schema-demystified/
31•navigate8310•3h ago•18 comments

Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays
451•nullpxl•15h ago•163 comments

Good engineers write bad code at big companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/
16•gfysfm•1h ago•1 comments

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism

https://lux-magazine.com/article/privacy-eroticism/
220•eustoria•4h ago•145 comments

Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/why-synthetic-emerald-green-pigments-degrade-over-time/
7•pseudolus•3d ago•0 comments

Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code

https://github.com/hexagonal-sun/moss
346•hexagonal-sun•6d ago•105 comments

Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry

https://stohl.substack.com/p/exclusive-credit-report-shows-meta
285•FreeQueso•5h ago•139 comments

Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes

https://netlist.io/
23•wafflesfreak•3h ago•19 comments

Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine

https://blog.atuin.sh/introducing-the-new-runbook-execution-engine/
92•emschwartz•4d ago•12 comments

Generalizing Printf in C

https://webb.is-a.dev/articles/generalizedprintf/
14•oliverkwebb•4d ago•5 comments

Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech-titans-amass-multimillion-dollar-war-chests-to-fight-ai-regulati...
175•thm•12h ago•170 comments

Anti-patterns while working with LLMs

https://instavm.io/blog/llm-anti-patterns
37•mkagenius•4h ago•13 comments

Rock Paper Scissors Solitaire

https://klezlab.it/rock-paper-scissors-solitaire.html
19•klez•3h ago•8 comments

Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-de...
444•PhilippGille•7h ago•108 comments

Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/28/intel-rumored-to-supply-new-mac-chip/
103•bigyabai•4h ago•60 comments

Analog Hoverboard Controller

https://github.com/skrubis/analog-hoverboard
13•skrubis•4d ago•1 comments

AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out

https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rates-starting-to-flatten-out/
137•toomuchtodo•5h ago•85 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•7mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•7mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•7mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•7mo 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•7mo ago
^
mertleee•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•7mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•7mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•7mo 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•7mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•7mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•7mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•7mo 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•7mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•7mo 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•7mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•7mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•7mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D