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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
296•bryan0•4h ago•129 comments

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
181•ilamont•7h ago•107 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
393•plesiv•12h ago•318 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
131•wanick•7h ago•32 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
811•crorella•9h ago•747 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
448•rbanffy•14h ago•263 comments

Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev
41•Anon84•15h ago•1 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
241•therepanic•11h ago•132 comments

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-one-plus-one/
39•birdculture•10h ago•9 comments

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/
94•HieronymusBosch•13h ago•16 comments

We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation
69•pseudolus•8h ago•50 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
264•evakhoury•1d ago•45 comments

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
112•rossant•2d ago•61 comments

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keep...
105•devonnull•8h ago•92 comments

Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine

https://enigma.design
40•primitivesuave•9h ago•3 comments

Commodore 64: Mercenary

https://gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/
33•a1r•3d ago•6 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
91•bketelsen•12h ago•66 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

159•dan-bailey•13h ago•403 comments

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/deser/
35•tosh•5h ago•6 comments

Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/remembering-chicago-pile-worlds-first-nuclear...
3•conorcleary•1d ago•0 comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html
247•dmux•9h ago•90 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
199•amortize•1d ago•41 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
232•nicowaltz•15h ago•88 comments

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
746•barry-cotter•15h ago•675 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
476•alvis•9h ago•357 comments

Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

https://www.withouthotair.com/
137•0sake_rs•14h ago•80 comments

How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

https://railcode.dev/blog/vibe-coded-website
80•yakkomajuri•4h ago•44 comments

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/
42•joebig•2d ago•4 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
157•czoido•18h ago•57 comments

Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-certificate-authority/
32•ewpratten•13h ago•16 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