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Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse

https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-th...
432•gnabgib•7h ago•283 comments

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

1120•nprateem•20h ago•663 comments

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

482•nicholasjbs•13h ago•49 comments

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/41.html
40•parksb•3d ago•17 comments

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo
415•neversaydie•15h ago•251 comments

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html
195•st_goliath•10h ago•61 comments

Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig

https://moonstone.sh/
35•ksymph•4h ago•9 comments

I Started a "Dirt Notebook"

https://pinewind.bearblog.dev/i-started-a-dirt-notebook/
38•herbertl•4h ago•29 comments

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa...
74•BadChemical•8h ago•18 comments

Learning a few things about running SQLite

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/
206•surprisetalk•12h ago•51 comments

The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold

https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/the-isomorphic-labs-drug-design-engine-unlocks-a-new-fron...
60•andsoitis•6h ago•6 comments

Regressive JPEGs

https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/
14•vitaut•2h ago•0 comments

Shipping OpenStrike: A Counter-Strike-Shaped FPS on a 2004 Handheld

https://pocketjs.dev/blog/shipping-openstrike/
25•itvision•6d ago•12 comments

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/
125•subinalex•4d ago•24 comments

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/
305•droidjj•15h ago•165 comments

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

https://www.stenchill.com/en/
28•radeeyate•5h ago•5 comments

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/drdroid/jobs/w45QcNV-product-engineer-assignment-mandatory
1•TheBengaluruGuy•4h ago

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

https://blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/posts/2026-07-14-lbse-conditional-layers/
29•bkardell•3d ago•1 comments

Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch
85•surprisetalk•9h ago•25 comments

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/
81•lalitmaganti•9h ago•3 comments

Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves

https://www.macworld.com/article/3189951/apples-latest-game-porting-toolkit-beta-changed-how-i-th...
26•kristianp•1h ago•16 comments

Lego building instructions through time

https://www.lego.com/en-us/history/articles/d-lego-building-instructions-through-time
93•NaOH•11h ago•19 comments

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

https://www.up.com/news/safety/Tracking-Rail-Heat-260608
72•zdw•9h ago•40 comments

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/07/15/battery-packs/
5•MeetingsBrowser•1d ago•1 comments

Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-home-and-studio-everything-you-need-...
95•NaOH•5d ago•47 comments

The state of open source AI

https://stateofopensource.ai/
406•rellem•15h ago•296 comments

Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

https://app.everything.diena.co/
74•lortex•11h ago•30 comments

FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/faa-boeing-737-max-787.html
160•hmm37•8h ago•87 comments

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/
219•surprisetalk•15h ago•120 comments

Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time

https://honeypotlive.cc/
151•tusksm•15h ago•55 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