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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
97•sungam•1h ago•48 comments

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
100•Tomte•56m ago•23 comments

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
40•tdeck•22m ago•3 comments

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wxttvq9qY
18•zdw•1d ago•2 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
652•ltratt•20h ago•623 comments

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
38•greenchair•5h ago•13 comments

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-...
56•romanhn•1h ago•79 comments

Sabre Wulf Remastered

https://gp-64.com/swr/
33•adunk•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

https://bigwhalehunting.com/workforce/
134•vfxGer•3h ago•43 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
315•gmays•16h ago•112 comments

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/recreate-the-apollo-guidance-computer/
4•Brajeshwar•3d ago•0 comments

Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens

https://scabshack.lol/posts/bring-back-the-cool-save-file-screens
43•surprisetalk•3d ago•11 comments

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2
175•tosh•7h ago•59 comments

Root shell on Samsung TV

https://twitter.com/log4j/status/2113014142600953868?s=46
628•testing22321•1d ago•497 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made
159•bookofjoe•3d ago•41 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
527•bobbydigitales•23h ago•327 comments

A Mathematician Reads the AI Future

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-math-human-future/689133/
30•artninja1988•1h ago•25 comments

Fuck Nuance (2015)

https://crookedtimber.org/2015/08/31/fuck-nuance/
11•bariumbitmap•1h ago•1 comments

Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
3•jumploops•3d ago•0 comments

Flapping Airplanes

https://flappingairplanes.com/
13•handfuloflight•3d ago•10 comments

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

https://rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-10-05
58•mimasama•3d ago•37 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/
207•LordNibbler•23h ago•47 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1645•sohkamyung•2d ago•252 comments

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
169•andsoitis•20h ago•26 comments

Show HN: ReVault – new secure archive format

3•bsutto•16h ago•1 comments

Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more

https://broccoli2shell.com/
382•theanonymousone•1d ago•198 comments

Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/114171-nikon-photography-contest-winner-loses-title-after-scientist...
108•thunderbong•8h ago•43 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
358•rramadass•1d ago•279 comments

Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505

https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/
148•edwardog•5h ago•74 comments

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
479•gnabgib•19h ago•505 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