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Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
595•737max•3h ago•479 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
530•etothet•6h ago•639 comments

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-...
216•mjorgers•4h ago•77 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
206•Philpax•3h ago•163 comments

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
592•formerly_proven•8h ago•338 comments

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic
149•sammy0910•3h ago•85 comments

Firefox Enterprise

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/
466•recvonline•7h ago•186 comments

A plea not to use uv-build

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/
22•Ravencentric•1h ago•10 comments

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

https://eg2.haku.sh/
337•amrrs•7h ago•80 comments

New Apple TV 4K

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/
200•corvad•6h ago•385 comments

Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris/jobs/h0nDly8-backend-engineer-ai-native-risk-infrastr...
1•smaddali•2h ago

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002
63•zdw•23h ago•11 comments

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

https://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics/
110•xnx•2h ago•20 comments

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-...
76•karakoram•4h ago•59 comments

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
187•acossta•6h ago•81 comments

Show HN: How Random Are You?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
35•vunderba•2h ago•18 comments

Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data

27•ericmags•3h ago•15 comments

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-...
69•ivell•4h ago•110 comments

Show HN: XY Music Notation

https://music.xy.dev/
14•jmole•1h ago•11 comments

Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain

https://xbow.com/labs/research/zero-to-calc-in-six-days-inside-xbow-chrome-full-chain
9•ollin•47m ago•1 comments

Worlds more habitable than Earth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/science/inhabitable-planets-solar-system.html
45•cainxinth•7h ago•79 comments

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code
61•kkukshtel•5h ago•22 comments

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
205•nryoo•11h ago•226 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
303•benbreen•13h ago•76 comments

Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript

https://github.com/maharshi365/deslop
5•maharshi365•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/
143•janpmz•9h ago•74 comments

Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany

https://ua.news/en/world/kiberataka-zupinila-budivnitstvo-tuneliu-mizh-daniieiu-ta-nimechchinoiu-...
123•paaloeye•3h ago•101 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
612•layer8•21h ago•480 comments

AWS Lambda Web Functions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-...
81•HatchedLake721•9h ago•78 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
660•ilreb•1d ago•357 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