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Whatever became of holography? (2011)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography
89•cainxinth•3h ago•38 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
406•jttnr•9h ago•172 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
146•royfish•5h ago•59 comments

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
203•edent•7h ago•38 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
16•subset•1d ago•1 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
297•albertzeyer•7h ago•473 comments

Illustration Beyond Proof

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/
41•smilelamp•4h ago•0 comments

Tattoos you can turn on and off

https://www.livescience.com/technology/cool-chemistry-trick-allows-new-tattoos-to-turn-on-and-off
19•MortyDev•6h ago•6 comments

Vectorized CLZ and CTZ

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/vectorized-clz-and-ctz/
21•zX41ZdbW•1d ago•2 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
342•Anon84•14h ago•390 comments

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-envi...
222•heyimada•5h ago•50 comments

Passkeys are a trap

https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
352•laurex•5h ago•202 comments

Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)

https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
87•rafael859•9h ago•14 comments

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence

https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/
79•hardmaru•5h ago•40 comments

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/
37•TedHaley•3h ago•4 comments

So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?

https://theonion.com/archivehunt/
272•mooreds•7h ago•36 comments

Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos

https://www.cell.com/matter-light/fulltext/S3117-5848(26)00119-5
32•Bluestein•18h ago•2 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva

https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
16•acley•2h ago•0 comments

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
386•gregsadetsky•9h ago•191 comments

I guess I'm using WebP now?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/08/i-guess-im-using-webp-now
88•Brajeshwar•2d ago•90 comments

500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-10-09-game-decompilation/
178•davikr•1d ago•127 comments

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
226•arusekk•15h ago•144 comments

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside

https://shnatsel.github.io/safe-simd-in-rust-even-on-the-inside/
48•ravenical•1d ago•2 comments

FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

https://tommyb3ll.github.io/FlowCE/
38•jgx0•1d ago•18 comments

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw
74•tosh•10h ago•15 comments

HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo

https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary
52•vmatsiiako•3h ago•12 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
168•kartik017•15h ago•95 comments

How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect

http://epestr.com/blog/reverse-engineering-a-commercial-spatial-audio-effect/
109•epestr•12h ago•34 comments

Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries

https://pydantic.dev/articles/dynamic-shredding-2026-01-26
11•acossta•5h ago•5 comments

ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol

https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-c
11•saisrirampur•4h ago•0 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