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Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability
91•cxr•1h ago•27 comments

Local-first software (2019)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
579•gasull•10h ago•185 comments

Cod Have Been Shrinking for Decades, Scientists Say They've Solved Mystery

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/
100•littlexsparkee•5h ago•31 comments

Operators, Not Users and Programmers

https://jyn.dev/operators-not-users-and-programmers/
30•todsacerdoti•2h ago•7 comments

Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

https://viksit.substack.com/p/optimizing-tool-selection-for-llm
43•viksit•4h ago•11 comments

Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283
32•lexandstuff•3h ago•6 comments

How to Network as an Introvert

https://aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-to-network-as-an-introvert/
29•agcat•3h ago•2 comments

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched
161•diggan•10h ago•35 comments

What a Hacker Stole from Me

https://mynoise.net/blog.php
19•wonger_•2h ago•3 comments

macOS Icon History

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history
126•ksec•9h ago•49 comments

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

https://xata.io/blog/behind-the-scenes-speeding-up-pgstream-snapshots-for-postgresql
89•tudorg•8h ago•16 comments

Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX (1947)

https://toytales.ca/atomic-bomb-ring-from-kix-1947/
55•gscott•3d ago•11 comments

X-Clacks-Overhead

https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about
200•weinzierl•3d ago•43 comments

7-Zip 25.00

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.00
29•pentagrama•2h ago•19 comments

'It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/
6•dluan•15m ago•0 comments

The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/the_calculator-on-a-chip.html
23•Bogdanp•8h ago•4 comments

The Right Way to Embed an LLM in a Group Chat

https://blog.tripjam.app/the-right-way-to-embed-an-llm-in-a-group-chat/
4•kenforthewin•2h ago•6 comments

WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator

https://www.winuae.net/
38•doener•3h ago•5 comments

Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing

https://mattwills.bearblog.dev/haskell-postfix/
40•mw_1•3d ago•6 comments

Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/07/05/seine-reopens-to-paris-swimmers-after-century-long-ban_6743058_7.html
107•divbzero•7h ago•55 comments

The Hell of Tetra Master

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/tetra-master.html
4•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation

https://docs.pasteurlabs.ai/projects/tesseract-jax/latest/examples/fem-shapeopt/demo.html
12•dionhaefner•2d ago•2 comments

QSBS Limits Raised

https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2906/2025-06-25-qsbs-benefits-expanded-under-senate-finance-proposal
57•tomasreimers•13h ago•21 comments

What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate

https://blog.alexoglou.com/posts/database-decisions/
43•konsalexee•13h ago•66 comments

Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

https://www.gecode.org/
60•gjvc•16h ago•13 comments

Solve high degree polynomials using Geode numbers

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2025.2460966
9•somethingsome•3d ago•2 comments

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

https://nautil.us/is-it-cake-how-our-brain-deciphers-materials-1222193/
15•dnetesn•2d ago•3 comments

Yet Another Zip Trick

https://hackarcana.com/article/yet-another-zip-trick
14•todsacerdoti•3d ago•3 comments

Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03727-9
57•bookofjoe•5h ago•16 comments

Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/build-systems.pdf
72•djoldman•3d ago•16 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•2mo ago

Comments

seeknotfind•2mo ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•2mo ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•2mo 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•2mo ago
^
mertleee•2mo 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•2mo 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•2mo ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•2mo ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

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

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