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Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
689•gmays•10h ago•407 comments

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/quality-non-fiction-books-are-the
213•benbreen•13h ago•90 comments

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/
406•syrusakbary•10h ago•80 comments

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

https://bento.page/slides/
703•starfallg•12h ago•158 comments

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
96•effects•6h ago•23 comments

git's –end-of-options Flag

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.html
7•Erenay09•1d ago•0 comments

Everyone should know SIMD

https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd
308•WadeGrimridge•10h ago•96 comments

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html
425•dcastm•10h ago•163 comments

ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS)

https://github.com/exlee/ascdraw
13•xlii•2d ago•3 comments

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program

https://github.blog/security/next-chapter-restructuring-githubs-bug-bounty-program/
16•soheilpro•1h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus-hybrid
90•HenryNdubuaku•10h ago•14 comments

John C. Dvorak has died

https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302
635•coleca•8h ago•204 comments

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
82•kickingvegas•6h ago•22 comments

Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style

https://petals.dev/
72•snorbleck•2h ago•25 comments

Making

https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/
304•erikschoster•12h ago•117 comments

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/
325•montroser•15h ago•329 comments

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
83•helonaut•7h ago•9 comments

Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth

https://ciphertalk.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-what-a-used-gpu-cluster
189•rbanffy•1w ago•173 comments

The startup's Postgres survival guide

https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide
340•abelanger•15h ago•175 comments

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254
158•intunderflow•3h ago•204 comments

What Rose Petals Teach Us about Induction

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/rose-petals/
25•olooney•4d ago•2 comments

Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/
42•shenli3514•6h ago•13 comments

Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012)

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html
52•dboon•9h ago•15 comments

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/
209•speckx•15h ago•159 comments

Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app

https://unlayer.com
47•adeelraza•12h ago•33 comments

Back to Kagi

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/back-to-kagi/
219•speckx•15h ago•170 comments

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

https://ishmael.textualize.io/blog/ghost-cut/
140•willm•13h ago•94 comments

Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin

https://mattjhall.co.uk/posts/taking-ocaml-eio-for-a-spin.html
43•mattjhall•2d ago•6 comments

Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20386
6•StatsAreFun•2h ago•0 comments

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

https://citizendot.github.io/articles/fake-job-interview-git-hook-malware/
310•CITIZENDOT•7h ago•83 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