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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419
275•paulmooreparks•5h ago•86 comments

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/
1210•lwhsiao•14h ago•220 comments

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226
303•apitman•5h ago•174 comments

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

https://sighack.com/post/getting-creative-with-perlin-noise-fields
24•0x000xca0xfe•2d ago•0 comments

Iroh 1.0

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1
1204•chadfowler•19h ago•366 comments

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/
394•sohkamyung•12h ago•210 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

1016•cloudking•19h ago•449 comments

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

https://tinywind.io
852•tinywind•18h ago•155 comments

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

https://trinket.strivemath.org/
12•apulkit6•1h ago•1 comments

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260611-00/?p=112415
32•tosh•3h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/
81•california-og•6h ago•14 comments

I Love the Computer

https://michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-the-computer/
240•speckx•14h ago•138 comments

I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrtVGimBYs
99•alexis-d•5d ago•41 comments

Commodore Releases Flip Phone

https://commodore.net/why-a-flip-phone/
39•bartekrutkowski•1h ago•12 comments

Hetzner Price Adjustment

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/#cloud-servers
453•tuhtah•21h ago•618 comments

Why I email complete strangers

https://www.goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/
156•karakoram•12h ago•69 comments

My Homelab AI Dev Platform

https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/
316•rsgm•19h ago•55 comments

Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible

https://gmalandrakis.com/writings/ad-economicum.html
196•l0new0lf-G•13h ago•350 comments

Cohere's First Model for Developers

https://cohere.com/blog/north-mini-code
98•hmokiguess•4d ago•20 comments

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/06/15/humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-coming-intelligenc...
102•andsoitis•8h ago•286 comments

Fox to buy Roku

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9
325•thm•21h ago•393 comments

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

https://notnotp.com/notes/what-job-interviews-taught-me-about-kubernetes/
191•chmaynard•14h ago•135 comments

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/feds-freaked-over-fable-5-after-simple-fix-this-c...
13•_tk_•1h ago•1 comments

Conquering Recursion (2019)

https://vector.org.uk/conquering-recursion/
3•tosh•4d ago•1 comments

Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B

https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/06/15/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-t...
313•colesantiago•22h ago•230 comments

Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins

https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-prot...
312•bookofjoe•19h ago•111 comments

What every coder should know about gamma (2016)

https://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should-know-about-gamma/
102•sph•2d ago•29 comments

Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen

https://forgottenbytes.net/commander_keen.html
214•mfiguiere•16h ago•70 comments

Show HN: SharkClean MCP

https://github.com/a-funk/sharkclean-mcp
10•afunk•3d ago•2 comments

How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

https://roszigit.com/en/blog/timescaledb-compression-hypercore
156•lkanwoqwp•17h ago•19 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