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Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
1258•737max•16h ago•886 comments

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
102•dverlaeckt80•2d ago•15 comments

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260
205•tharen•2h ago•84 comments

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-confirms-hardware-wallet-spy-implant-behind...
659•thm•1d ago•430 comments

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

https://felixrieseberg.com/
174•rglover•3h ago•64 comments

Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled

https://anitab.org/press-release
168•mooreds•9h ago•76 comments

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

https://guitoro.com/
418•talccc•13h ago•107 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
748•Philpax•16h ago•741 comments

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692.html
153•mdp2021•1d ago•17 comments

Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-sweden-abandoning-cashless-society-070000442.html
30•nephihaha•1h ago•20 comments

Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++

https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi/
22•Bluestein•1d ago•9 comments

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-...
297•karakoram•17h ago•425 comments

Recreational Programming

https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming
170•jslakro•10h ago•73 comments

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-...
268•ivell•18h ago•448 comments

Arena Allocators in C

https://eliasebner.com/blog/guides/arena-allocators-in-c/
33•dimonomid•2d ago•10 comments

Show HN: How random are you?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
139•vunderba•15h ago•72 comments

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002
203•zdw•1d ago•39 comments

Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo

https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/history-proposal.html
38•evakhoury•1d ago•7 comments

AlphaNIST

https://alpha-nist.github.io/
71•jasonjmcghee•10h ago•23 comments

Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?

https://brookslybrand.com/posts/do-frameworks-matter-anymore/
47•fagnerbrack•7h ago•29 comments

The People's Bookshelf (Riga, Latvia)

https://tautasgramatuplaukts.lv/en/
6•wmchen•1d ago•0 comments

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-r...
559•forthwall•12h ago•462 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
723•etothet•19h ago•848 comments

Show HN: XY Music Notation

https://music.xy.dev/
69•jmole•14h ago•55 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
370•benbreen•1d ago•87 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
672•layer8•1d ago•536 comments

PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery

https://jobs.lever.co/postera/c7d50a36-db0a-4574-bfe4-8700b74a22c0
1•morraa•11h ago

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
719•formerly_proven•22h ago•401 comments

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-...
431•mjorgers•17h ago•185 comments

Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20261007-the-man-hiking-the-world-in-search-of-rare-cheeses
91•tosh•1d ago•27 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