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Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eng2.70108
31•thelastgallon•1h ago•2 comments

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
738•snehesht•17h ago•329 comments

In the wake of closure, a digital archive of animated materials appears online

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-an...
108•rdmuser•9h ago•10 comments

A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

https://frn.sh/go-gc/
60•shellpipe•5h ago•22 comments

We ported the original Doom to SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
27•Vaslo•1d ago•3 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
34•emptybits•1h ago•28 comments

Infidel goes wild

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
122•tobr•1d ago•19 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
166•wiso•12h ago•63 comments

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-...
176•llm_nerd•4h ago•109 comments

The Tao of Backup

http://www.taobackup.com/index.html
105•vntok•2d ago•25 comments

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
510•privacyisntdead•11h ago•321 comments

Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/gods-in-the-classroom-religion-and-education...
14•pseudolus•3d ago•0 comments

Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/04/safe-optimistic-lock-coupling.html
4•greghn•3d ago•0 comments

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-...
353•sensanaty•11h ago•457 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

854•paveworld•1d ago•182 comments

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh
120•renehsz•8h ago•30 comments

ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust

https://getartcraft.com/apps
98•aghuang•7h ago•97 comments

Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/
65•shannadige•1d ago•47 comments

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62
37•mooreds•1d ago•21 comments

Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio

https://tuftesrazor.scienceux.org/
30•s4074433•2d ago•9 comments

Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex

https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/peter-bex/
31•veqq•2d ago•7 comments

'Neanderthals Among Us' review

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/neanderthals-among-us-peter-sahlins-review
69•pepys•1d ago•56 comments

Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/nearly-200-people-under-observation-after-irkutsk-lab-w...
186•ericmay•4h ago•149 comments

Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/672
75•timbill•13h ago•10 comments

Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ8WWZzoaR0
70•signa11•11h ago•32 comments

All I wanted was a custom domain email

https://jacobg.co/emails-at-jacobg-co/
56•jgx0•13h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

https://niklasroy.com/gtc/
184•r0r0•3d ago•26 comments

Bill Draper has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/william-draper-dead.html
113•bookofjoe•18h ago•36 comments

Fixed Points and Strike Mandates

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2012/02/19/fixed-points-and-strike-mandates/
12•luu•4d ago•1 comments

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvFTMtw4Jk
75•simonjgreen•22h ago•25 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