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Half-Baked Product

https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/
539•weli•5h ago•146 comments

PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/postgresql-and-the-oom-killer-why-we-use-strict-memory-overcommit
14•furkansahin•45m ago•1 comments

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data
881•toomuchtodo•16h ago•132 comments

Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html
39•ExMachina73•51m ago•12 comments

Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

https://wordgard.net/
86•indy•4h ago•39 comments

Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can...
39•ahlCVA•44m ago•3 comments

Right to Local Intelligence

https://righttointelligence.org/
349•thoughtpeddler•13h ago•117 comments

CarPlay Is Additive

https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts
412•sprawl_•12h ago•550 comments

Please stop the AI confidence theater

https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater
53•skadamat•55m ago•21 comments

Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations

https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/goodbye-forever-probably/
5•sixhobbits•1h ago•1 comments

How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps

https://iinteractive.com/resources/blog/read-only
43•fortyseven•3d ago•24 comments

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc
325•Philpax•14h ago•62 comments

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438
505•IngoBlechschmid•22h ago•215 comments

Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html
25•hans_castorp•4h ago•6 comments

The Safari MCP server for web developers

https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
143•coloneltcb•12h ago•38 comments

Podman v6.0.0

https://blog.podman.io/2026/07/introducing-podman-v6-0-0/
578•soheilpro•23h ago•228 comments

Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks...
202•nsoonhui•5h ago•151 comments

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

https://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
306•vinhnx•5d ago•116 comments

Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

https://js13kgames.com/games/q1k3
75•mortenjorck•6d ago•7 comments

Immich 3.0

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/29439
502•hashier•23h ago•247 comments

Exapunks (2018)

https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/
306•yu3zhou4•19h ago•106 comments

Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with-microns-vp-and-gm-of
16•zdw•2d ago•9 comments

The Beauty of Tautologies

https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/the-beauty-of-tautologies
9•surprisetalk•2d ago•6 comments

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74235-1
61•gscott•3d ago•24 comments

Local Reasoning for Global Properties

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/local_reasoning_for_global_properties.html
9•mpweiher•2d ago•1 comments

14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/onnx-embeddings-speedup/
72•snikolaev•9h ago•12 comments

The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable

https://blog.okturtles.org/2026/07/short-leash-ai-method/
157•Riseed•18h ago•198 comments

An American Privacy Emergency

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902
354•flowercalled•13h ago•106 comments

FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/flow.html
82•sourdecor•23h ago•23 comments

A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time

https://petapixel.com/2026/06/24/a-special-wireless-free-nikon-camera-is-publicly-available-for-t...
76•HardwareLust•1w ago•61 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