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Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

https://titleart.dvy.io/
107•davidbarker•3h ago•18 comments

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot
72•vardhan1237•3h ago•13 comments

Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/cognitive-mercantilism
39•ianand•2h ago•18 comments

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
493•jumploops•12h ago•88 comments

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2...
62•Austin_Conlon•3h ago•26 comments

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
86•NotARoomba•1d ago•20 comments

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
234•speckx•3d ago•74 comments

Lula wins election after final votes tallied

https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-202...
333•laurenth•6h ago•313 comments

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428
74•westurner•6h ago•27 comments

Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf
15•zahrevsky•13h ago•3 comments

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistib...
153•Betelbuddy•5h ago•90 comments

The Curse of Soldered RAM

https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/10/24/the-curse-of-soldered-ram/
20•gsky•1d ago•9 comments

Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained

https://shattered.io/microsoft-decision-1-qwen3-5-9b-model-2026/
31•gmays•3h ago•11 comments

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
190•jruohonen•11h ago•59 comments

F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

https://hypnotize.works/gdx-3ds/postmortem/index.html
97•bpierre•7h ago•48 comments

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/iron-age-salt-mining-complex-beneath-hallstatt/
43•janandonly•3d ago•7 comments

The State of Context Engineering

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html
144•pchristensen•10h ago•38 comments

What goes into making an animated film?

https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/
127•embedding-shape•10h ago•53 comments

Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-cares-whether-academics-use-ai-to-write
11•Anon84•2d ago•24 comments

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC
70•davikr•6h ago•13 comments

Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

https://adrs.systems
26•lumbroso•1d ago•18 comments

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
149•jumploops•4d ago•218 comments

Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category

https://korindiehacker.bloffy.blog/en/removing-nextjs-got-my-blog-to-100-on-every-lighthouse-cate...
100•textlanes33•5h ago•51 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
780•ltratt•1d ago•702 comments

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

https://www.getty.edu/news/buddha-head-of-merv-turkmenistan-conservation/
41•laybak•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management

https://proc-cli.com/
6•yazeedaloyoun•2h ago•0 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
511•sungam•13h ago•228 comments

Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvp8gy1zwxxwo
33•HelloUsername•3d ago•23 comments

iPhone Duo Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/119895/iphone-duo-teardown
102•kripy•5h ago•66 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
246•minimaxir•9h ago•269 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