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Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
791•jonluca•9h ago•349 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-Octob...
552•vok•9h ago•199 comments

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
671•sgiannopoulos•16h ago•94 comments

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai
9•ilreb•1h ago•5 comments

A simplified proof of ETH is False [pdf]

https://shivakintali.github.io/papers/ETH.pdf
7•porridgeraisin•44m ago•0 comments

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
381•enlyth•13h ago•218 comments

16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
76•doener•6h ago•7 comments

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

https://eliasfarhan.ch/graphics/cpp/2026/01/27/why-i-teach-opengles.html
40•majorchord•5h ago•20 comments

Type Server Protocol

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
229•adamnemecek•13h ago•152 comments

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kv-cache-exposure-remediation/
123•wondersky•8h ago•40 comments

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
436•edent•15h ago•96 comments

Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/2026-10-25_pratt-parsing.html
10•dverlaeckt80•1h ago•0 comments

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
251•geox•16h ago•389 comments

A Printer Printing onto Paper

https://twitter.com/macrofying/status/2112904628509528219
108•MrBuddyCasino•4d ago•25 comments

APC says let there be light, with standards to speed up photonics manufacturing

https://www.nextplatform.com/connect/2026/10/23/apc-says-let-there-be-light-with-raft-of-standard...
31•rbanffy•1d ago•4 comments

Txoko: Basques' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a culture (2024)

https://johnhendersontravel.com/txoko/
12•jxub•3d ago•2 comments

Nietzschian Debugger

https://github.com/DilawarShafiq/nietzschian-debugger
166•dilawargopang•14h ago•53 comments

New iPad mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/
189•soheilpro•18h ago•481 comments

How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

https://www.cocoterra.com/guide-on-how-to-grow-chocolate-at-home/
53•felipevb•23h ago•15 comments

A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-man-from-future-why-johnny-cant.html
159•aray07•13h ago•77 comments

Anthropic S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm
1581•SiNTEx•18h ago•1512 comments

Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-10-mn-11870-story.html
43•npunt•2d ago•6 comments

LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)

https://t3x.org/lisp64k/index.html
53•andsoitis•1d ago•10 comments

Websites Should Be Printable

https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
317•bagatelle•20h ago•188 comments

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)

https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport...
281•skadamat•4d ago•145 comments

GPT-6.1 Terra

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/
575•meetpateltech•13h ago•359 comments

SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

https://shraiwi.com/blog/simd-fast-esp32s3/
198•zdw•1d ago•58 comments

Historical Telecommunications

https://retronetworking.org/
13•jruohonen•1d ago•1 comments

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quart...
898•doctorzook•15h ago•840 comments

Pharo 14

https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html
256•xkriva11•20h ago•68 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