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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
983•karpathy•9h ago•304 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
277•ecares•7h ago•76 comments

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/
55•doodlesdev•3h ago•21 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
434•oger•10h ago•199 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
158•guregodevo•7h ago•86 comments

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292
40•hapax_legomena•4h ago•19 comments

Altoids Project

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/
82•uvdn7•6h ago•4 comments

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems)

http://thales.mit.edu/bush/index.php/4801-2/
6•peter_d_sherman•1d ago•0 comments

Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020

https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/
68•ohjeez•1d ago•16 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
170•ntur1337•11h ago•46 comments

When electric cars were for women

https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles
57•dverlaeckt80•6h ago•39 comments

A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-1580-map-shows-why-data-visualization-is-never-neutral/
19•the-mitr•1d ago•1 comments

A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077
11•gjvc•2d ago•0 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate
93•samizdis•9h ago•29 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
235•aphyr•16h ago•126 comments

Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)

https://epoyraz.github.io/nes-contra-us/
77•tevlon•10h ago•47 comments

ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits
53•Zariel•7h ago•21 comments

Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer

https://slate.com/culture/2026/10/edgar-allan-poe-poems-stories-most-influential-american-writer-...
21•samclemens•3d ago•0 comments

Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half

https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in...
69•toomuchtodo•10h ago•14 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
315•armcat•19h ago•157 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
104•gslin•10h ago•31 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
228•aatish•4d ago•73 comments

Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem

https://emarzion.github.io/KSRT/
15•mkckto•5h ago•1 comments

Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo

https://gist.github.com/skorotkiewicz/c59e591c26661cb52b06afc42d8ac546
18•modinfo•1d ago•7 comments

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088
286•pretext•10h ago•160 comments

Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards

https://bbrouter.com/bbrouter/ben-eater-sap-1
17•creack•5h ago•5 comments

AI text watermarking and quality loss

https://blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-text-watermarking-and-quality
43•danielfoster•7h ago•7 comments

Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-...
33•dverlaeckt80•1d ago•2 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
102•luu•3d ago•24 comments

Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python

https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/
61•sebg•2d ago•42 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