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You Said No MCP

https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/
439•yarapavan•7h ago•240 comments

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/
267•allisdust•1h ago•226 comments

A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
49•rbanffy•2h ago•14 comments

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/
65•ibobev•3h ago•31 comments

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71603
16•croes•1h ago•5 comments

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dAbC3Gd-founding-product-engineer
1•rooppal•16s ago

I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records

https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records
98•luispa•1d ago•47 comments

Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)

https://github.com/mogrinz/AMT630A
21•mogrinz•1d ago•4 comments

Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

https://projecthub.arduino.cc/syntheticaidata/jbr-001-a-desktop-companion-robot-powered-by-arduin...
99•gvuksic•1d ago•22 comments

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
811•bryan0•18h ago•338 comments

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

https://sdf.org/
12•kmstout•2h ago•1 comments

Solving Factorio Quality

https://exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-quality/
210•laurenth•1d ago•77 comments

Mathematical Origami

https://mathigon.org/origami
72•signa11•1d ago•15 comments

Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

https://thisismypersonalblog.com/posts/2026-09-25-getting-out-of-the-way/
31•systemerror•2d ago•7 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
714•alvis•23h ago•595 comments

What TLA+ can and can't check

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/
10•b-man•3h ago•1 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...
321•devonnull•22h ago•246 comments

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/nasa-asked-several-former-sr-71a-staffers-he...
274•ilamont•1d ago•301 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
721•plesiv•1d ago•642 comments

Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes

https://ledge.sh
19•dancablam•17h ago•6 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...
261•ilamont•21h ago•155 comments

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

https://space.bl2.net/
342•wanick•21h ago•92 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
324•evakhoury•2d ago•48 comments

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/
278•HieronymusBosch•1d ago•88 comments

Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2026/09/29/floppy-emu-hardware-failure-analysis-results/
40•zdw•17h ago•9 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
563•rbanffy•1d ago•308 comments

Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-08-23-wgpu-facet/
77•luu•1d ago•6 comments

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

https://lfm.xiffy.nl/
111•Baljhin•14h ago•36 comments

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

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev
182•Anon84•1d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
67•seam_carver•2d ago•19 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