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After 27 years within budget Austria open 6thlongest railway tunnel in the world

https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/...
81•fzeindl•1h ago•18 comments

4 billion if statements (2023)

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html
96•damethos•5d ago•38 comments

The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/miniscope-tiny-telescope/
137•chantepierre•4h ago•24 comments

GPT-5.2

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/
1034•atgctg•18h ago•891 comments

From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/when-tokenization-becomes-token
8•philippemnoel•21h ago•0 comments

Nokia N900 Necromancy

https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
346•yaky•12h ago•123 comments

Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guarding-git-forge-ai-scrapers/
48•todsacerdoti•4h ago•37 comments

Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why/
208•nafnlj•11h ago•83 comments

Octo: A Chip8 IDE

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo
13•tosh•6d ago•1 comments

CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

https://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607
182•rguiscard•11h ago•96 comments

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free

https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free...
322•doctoboggan•18h ago•432 comments

The highest quality codebase

https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase
564•Gricha•3d ago•358 comments

Spirograph style Lego drawing machine

https://jkbrickworks.com/simple-drawing-machine/
18•ensocode•4d ago•2 comments

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

https://larr.net/p/namings.html
318•todsacerdoti•18h ago•421 comments

An SVG is all you need

https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.html
267•sadiq•17h ago•108 comments

Smartphone without a battery (2022)

https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/
42•MYEUHD•4h ago•5 comments

What Folk Can Do

https://folk.computer/guides/what-folk-can-do
6•luu•4d ago•2 comments

Litestream VFS

https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/
315•emschwartz•18h ago•78 comments

Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-comp...
301•sangeeth96•15h ago•183 comments

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
618•__rito__•1d ago•255 comments

Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust

https://github.com/stoolap/stoolap
85•murat3ok•12h ago•21 comments

He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/05/karl-bushby-walk-around-world/
139•wallflower•4d ago•90 comments

Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative

https://github.com/simstudioai/sim
208•waleedlatif1•19h ago•46 comments

Craft software that makes people feel something

https://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/
305•lukeio•22h ago•147 comments

The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void

https://suggger.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-not-bad-decoding
106•Suggger•22h ago•125 comments

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/
241•inesranzo•22h ago•467 comments

French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA
394•gbugniot•22h ago•208 comments

Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems

https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein
73•fanf2•4d ago•8 comments

Laying out the 404 Media zine

https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/?
71•robenkleene•12h ago•7 comments

Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24l223d9n7o
50•1659447091•10h ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•7mo 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