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I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)

https://github.com/stephenlthorn/auto-identity-remove
194•stephenlthorn•2h ago•58 comments

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf
70•rurban•4h ago•33 comments

Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/177910...
46•topherjaynes•57m ago•15 comments

Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-m...
56•jonbaer•1h ago•13 comments

Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland

https://storica.club/blog/alice-is-math-jokes/
41•yekbun123•4d ago•12 comments

Writing Z80 assembly, 4 decades later:-)

https://github.com/ttsiodras/3D-on-a-ZX-Spectrum-48K/
29•ttsiodras•1d ago•2 comments

GenCAD

https://gencad.github.io/
377•dagenix•16h ago•102 comments

It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
175•ahalbert4•10h ago•428 comments

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o
26•bauc•45m ago•8 comments

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/17/enough-with-the-ai-fomo-go-slow-mo-says-domo-cdo/524...
34•Bender•57m ago•13 comments

Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/you-can-bet-on-it-utah-lawmakers-form-united-fron...
47•thm•2h ago•15 comments

Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-crystals-found-inside-wreckage-from-the-first-...
127•jumploops•2d ago•48 comments

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
402•tech4bot•1d ago•196 comments

Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts

https://askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org/
170•gaws•2d ago•22 comments

Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/exclusive-hershey-bets-on-ai-agents-to-fix-its-2-billion-m...
12•mooreds•1h ago•20 comments

Jank now has its own custom IR

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05-08-optimization/
179•DASD•2d ago•36 comments

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

https://github.com/MinishLab/semble
383•Bibabomas•22h ago•127 comments

Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil

https://www.wired.com/story/build-a-radio-wave-detector-with-balls-of-aluminum-foil/
32•Brajeshwar•2d ago•9 comments

Graphing Scientific Calculator Based on the ESP32

https://github.com/El-EnderJ/NeoCalculator
22•uticus•3d ago•6 comments

WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound

https://hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b_writeup.html
168•HellMood•14h ago•31 comments

Prolog Coding Horror

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/horror
167•RohanAdwankar•16h ago•65 comments

Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pasadena/s/94BHlkE84r
64•tgrowazay•5h ago•29 comments

Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/05/16/profunctor-equipment-in-haskell/
33•g0xA52A2A•1d ago•9 comments

Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

https://indiepixel.de/blog/posts/where-are-the-vibecoded-photoshops/
192•gizmo64k•4h ago•240 comments

Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)

https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/magical-realism-nothern-exposure-25-years-later
128•walterbell•2d ago•62 comments

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/former-google-ceo-booed-graduation-speech-ai-rcna345585
233•nothrowaways•2h ago•215 comments

Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely

https://idahonews.com/news/local/two-f-18-fighter-jets-have-crashed-during-an-airshow-at-mountain...
223•ChrisArchitect•16h ago•223 comments

CUDA Books

https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books
211•dariubs•1d ago•52 comments

A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion82.html
74•susam•2d ago•13 comments

Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting

https://github.com/ABGEO/mezz
28•ABGEO•2d ago•9 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