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Things to know when you get cancer

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/
1413•jjmaxwell4•15h ago•350 comments

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/
110•0xdeafbeef•1d ago•56 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/
631•gmays•14h ago•252 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/
458•donohoe•12h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand

https://indigene.app/
31•olivierlacan•2d ago•5 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
729•doitLP•3d ago•525 comments

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b
217•gmays•10h ago•49 comments

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

https://catchabird.com
194•eduardsik•3d ago•52 comments

The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network
26•bookofjoe•1d ago•9 comments

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-...
415•hubraumhugo•18h ago•386 comments

Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-sticky-alpine-darwin-year-carnivorous.html
39•maxall4•2d ago•13 comments

Bookofjoe's Favorite Thing: Best Pill Splitter

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/bookofjoes-favorite-thing-worlds-best.html
6•surprisetalk•1d ago•1 comments

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/
87•kennedn•1d ago•26 comments

Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA

https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2026/10/12/donaldson-futuro-house-in-idyllwild-california-usa/
49•rmason•1d ago•16 comments

The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/10/11/the-toftwood-male-voice-choir-a-mystery-pressed-in-vinyl/
40•austinallegro•3d ago•7 comments

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse
257•allddd•18h ago•40 comments

Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents

https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows
10•pramodbiligiri•3h ago•10 comments

The Double Headed Stack Allocator

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/
67•g0xA52A2A•8h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua

https://uji.sh/ito/
27•cat-whisperer•12h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Flipflop, Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

https://github.com/andunieee/flipflop
45•andunie•6h ago•14 comments

Your C is not standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261012-notstdc.html
94•dverlaeckt80•1d ago•59 comments

David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/david-rudnick-johnnie-campbell-arsenal-rocastle-typeface-gra...
28•droidjj•2d ago•11 comments

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-10-13-long.html
365•epestr•1d ago•324 comments

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
845•sighborg•1d ago•648 comments

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

https://petal.live/
174•thedracle•16h ago•39 comments

We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers

https://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14
301•emschwartz•13h ago•93 comments

Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-...
907•latexr•17h ago•539 comments

Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

80•reacharavindh•2d ago•72 comments

Submarine cable resilience

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/
161•speckx•19h ago•61 comments

Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack

https://oxide.computer/blog/voxel-labs
120•tosh•16h ago•13 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