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Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp
246•pizlonator•12h ago•68 comments

Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

https://alavi.me/blog/e-ink-tablet-as-monitor-linux/
151•yolkedgeek•4d ago•57 comments

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
202•zdw•15h ago•83 comments

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/
219•thecsw•14h ago•86 comments

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
296•tymscar•18h ago•163 comments

Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap
124•Petiver•4d ago•29 comments

Closures as Win32 Window Procedures

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/12/
74•ibobev•12h ago•13 comments

An Implementation of J (1992)

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/ioj.htm
65•ofalkaed•11h ago•24 comments

Lean theorem prover mathlib

https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4
43•downboots•9h ago•0 comments

No-Tifier (2017)

https://subject.space/projects/no-tifier/
25•aebtebeten•3d ago•5 comments

Bye, Mom

https://aella.substack.com/p/bye-mom
42•reducesuffering•3h ago•8 comments

If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?

https://1393.xyz/writing/if-a-meta-ai-model-can-read-a-brain-wide-signal-why-wouldnt-the-brain
97•rdgthree•10h ago•54 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/mst3k-oral-history/
55•indigodaddy•6d ago•9 comments

Getting into Public Speaking

https://james.brooks.page/blog/getting-into-public-speaking
7•jbrooksuk•4d ago•1 comments

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure

https://technicshistory.com/2025/12/13/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-i-adventure/
108•cfmcdonald•15h ago•45 comments

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
296•simonw•3d ago•83 comments

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits

https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
400•mmaia•15h ago•242 comments

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation

https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-11/heavy-metal-is-healing-teens-on-the-blackfeet-nation/
81•cdrnsf•7h ago•33 comments

An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine

https://www.positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future/
108•ohjeez•13h ago•61 comments

Go Proposal: Secret Mode

https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
198•enz•4d ago•93 comments

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

350•lemonlime227•20h ago•360 comments

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
240•birdculture•15h ago•209 comments

Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
114•frozenseven•1w ago•16 comments

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

https://jmmv.dev/2025/12/from-azure-functions-to-freebsd.html
107•todsacerdoti•6d ago•19 comments

Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/12/10/create-a-markdown-editor-in-ruby-on-rails.html
14•amalinovic•3d ago•0 comments

Dhtml Lemmings (2004)

https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/index.php
35•tetris11•5d ago•12 comments

Using Python for Scripting

https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting
139•birdculture•6d ago•92 comments

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03974-w
141•bikenaga•3d ago•37 comments

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/
392•speckx•2d ago•275 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and...
172•shinryuu•1w ago•43 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•8mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•7mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•7mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•7mo 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•7mo ago
^
mertleee•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•7mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•7mo ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•7mo 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•7mo ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•7mo ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•7mo ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•7mo 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•7mo ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•7mo 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•7mo ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•7mo ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•7mo ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D