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Laya the open source version of Jev

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
342•nandakishor_ml•4h ago•69 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
42•ksec•1h ago•23 comments

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

https://github.com/mindbox77/zxdesk
21•graemep•1h ago•6 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
583•ereiamjh•5h ago•351 comments

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
431•emigre•9h ago•161 comments

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin
27•ksec•1h ago•3 comments

“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here
153•surprisetalk•3d ago•34 comments

Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
20•stefanpie•2d ago•3 comments

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
943•theanonymousone•19h ago•515 comments

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-or-black-hole-stars-astronomers-spar-over-webb-telesco...
21•jandrewrogers•23h ago•5 comments

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

https://onionfutures.com/
271•z-mach9•10h ago•91 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
204•num42•8h ago•162 comments

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
217•nsoonhui•8h ago•120 comments

Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy

https://theconversation.com/learning-another-language-may-be-one-of-the-best-ways-to-keep-your-br...
18•nativeit•38m ago•2 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
763•jcbhmr•1d ago•299 comments

Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201337119
34•austinallegro•2d ago•16 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
543•joeriddles•1d ago•356 comments

You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit-packfiles/
85•evacchi•2d ago•23 comments

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
105•lioeters•12h ago•21 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
404•f311a•20h ago•87 comments

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
124•jegp•12h ago•46 comments

From Stonemasons to Carpenters

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/from-stonemasons-to-carpenters
30•azhenley•1d ago•4 comments

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/
108•agluszak•2d ago•44 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
166•maxall4•15h ago•112 comments

Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-arent-just-beautiful-theyre-biological-wonders-20260916/
48•randomImmigrant•2d ago•6 comments

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

https://newsroom.usra.edu/usra-contributes-planetary-science-expertise-to-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundati...
46•noobplus•10h ago•5 comments

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-1...
309•ohjeez•1d ago•118 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
653•ilreb•1d ago•275 comments

Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early

https://reproof.app/blog/lotus-notes-history
9•maguay•2d ago•5 comments

Goroutine Leak Profiles

https://go.dev/blog/goroutine-leak-profiles
54•torutofu•3d ago•6 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