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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
310•roansh•2h ago•99 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
1881•karpathy•22h ago•480 comments

Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power

https://www.vox.com/politics/508526/patrick-stewart-jean-luc-picard-star-trek-liberalism
86•rhaynes•1h ago•53 comments

Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/police-chief-physically-unplugs-flock-cameras...
266•entryleveljobsc•3h ago•85 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
78•gmays•2h ago•9 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
70•Anon84•5h ago•41 comments

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages
41•luu•22h ago•53 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
51•bogdanoff_2•1d ago•19 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
213•entryleveljobsc•3h ago•84 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html
71•dverlaeckt80•4h ago•24 comments

Frontier Airlines Likely Breached

https://www.reddit.com/r/frontierairlines/comments/1xl20e8/psa_email_scam/
74•999900000999•1h ago•14 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
661•ecares•19h ago•185 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
72•croes•1d ago•29 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
220•luu•12h ago•151 comments

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/
262•doodlesdev•16h ago•143 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
43•kevs3d•1d ago•5 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
383•guregodevo•19h ago•188 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
41•FabCH•5h ago•22 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
622•oger•23h ago•304 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
72•slater•3d ago•28 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
96•headsupernova•3d ago•27 comments

Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/01/landline-phones-will-switch-off-across-britland-i...
46•edward•2h ago•30 comments

Understanding Email Encryption

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/
93•nmjenkins•1d ago•21 comments

Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release

https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2026-10-31-enlightenment-0.28.0
45•birdculture•3h ago•13 comments

SS27 Color Stats

https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/ss27-color-stats
3•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-swarms-unleashed-in-m...
112•entryleveljobsc•4h ago•50 comments

Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother

https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/
198•whyleyc•2d ago•46 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/🆆🆃🅵/
43•n_plus_1_acc•7h ago•36 comments

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292
158•hapax_legomena•16h ago•77 comments

Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes

https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-to...
627•giuliomagnifico•7h ago•363 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