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Things to know when you get cancer – 2026 Edition

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/
511•jjmaxwell4•3h ago•139 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/
148•gmays•1h ago•47 comments

We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers

https://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14
84•emschwartz•1h ago•36 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/
19•donohoe•30m ago•4 comments

Passkeys are not a trap

https://scotthelme.co.uk/passkeys-are-not-a-trap/
381•speckx•7h ago•566 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
279•doitLP•2d ago•204 comments

Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-...
788•latexr•4h ago•398 comments

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse
173•allddd•6h ago•28 comments

Fancy Curl Sites

https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18
51•adunk•3h ago•12 comments

Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke/
176•sunshowers•2h ago•67 comments

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
681•otobrglez•14h ago•282 comments

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

https://petal.live/
87•thedracle•4h ago•19 comments

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-...
113•hubraumhugo•6h ago•182 comments

Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved

https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/
153•coloneltcb•2h ago•46 comments

Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261014-930-839530/
242•ilamont•4h ago•177 comments

Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold

https://phloem.stemdeck.app/
68•thclpr•2d ago•18 comments

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-unde...
228•smartmic•4h ago•180 comments

Marshall Islands Stick Chart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
30•Thevet•1d ago•4 comments

Submarine cable resilience

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/
120•speckx•7h ago•38 comments

Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014)

https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
10•hangsi•1d ago•2 comments

Has AI tells

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/10/14/has-ai-tells.html?focus=1
61•7777777phil•5h ago•55 comments

Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/13/suicide-rates-highest-ever-among-middle-aged-men/
171•ivewonyoung•3h ago•212 comments

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/
321•Brajeshwar•6h ago•82 comments

Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack

https://oxide.computer/blog/voxel-labs
32•tosh•4h ago•3 comments

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch
180•jascha_eng•10h ago•47 comments

LittleJS is 2D and 3D now

https://frankforce.com/littlejs-is-2d-and-3d-now/
80•dmit•1d ago•25 comments

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
677•sighborg•13h ago•568 comments

Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

https://clova.email/
57•edpin2000•5h ago•47 comments

America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it
122•speckx•4h ago•62 comments

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-10-13-long.html
126•epestr•16h ago•103 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