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Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

https://correctiv.org/en/europe/2026/04/21/half-of-europes-towns-and-villages-have-fewer-resident...
24•Pamar•39m ago•16 comments

H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/antirez/h3.c
179•swyx•5h ago•22 comments

DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself

https://manish.sh/writings/models/inside-deepseek-reverse-engineering-an-ai-assistant-by-intervie...
16•ms7892•55m ago•2 comments

Chicken Scheme 6.0

https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS
132•eatonphil•6h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%

https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon
21•mcptokensaver•58m ago•8 comments

LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models

https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B
28•nateb2022•6d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

https://everycube.alen.is/
148•Alen123•7h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
276•HenryNdubuaku•13h ago•104 comments

The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-mechanical-miracle-that-ruined
108•benbreen•5d ago•48 comments

Recycle – Floppydisks

https://www.floppydisk.com/recycle
46•calvinmorrison•4h ago•17 comments

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878
462•root-parent•16h ago•427 comments

Hyperspace

https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/
49•swyx•4h ago•35 comments

Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead

https://stowaway.live/
213•thunderbong•3d ago•26 comments

Sonic Pi v5

https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-166001392
348•samaaron•3d ago•84 comments

Rust SIMD on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/simd-on-gpu/
165•sagacity•12h ago•77 comments

World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

https://worldtrainmap.com/
99•Flightmussy•7h ago•34 comments

Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word

https://fabscene.medium.com/publishing-schematics-before-open-source-was-a-word-55-years-of-akizu...
81•extralongdivisi•3d ago•18 comments

Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

https://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sailbook.html
88•AntiRush•9h ago•27 comments

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

http://danluu.com/pl-tokens/
133•chaychoong•13h ago•87 comments

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model
1088•riordan•20h ago•593 comments

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-admins-unhappy-as-microsoft-found-installing-unexpected-ne...
35•m463•2h ago•16 comments

Squeak 6.1

https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/
248•fniephaus•18h ago•125 comments

Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Humanising-LLM-Outputs-is-Actually-Dumb
191•kuberwastaken•16h ago•119 comments

Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java

https://www.choral-lang.org/
19•dplyukhin•3d ago•2 comments

Once More in Triple Time

https://theamericanscholar.org/once-more-in-triple-time/
3•Petiver•4d ago•0 comments

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
151•WhiteDawn•14h ago•55 comments

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-...
26•csmantle•2h ago•7 comments

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954
213•xeonmc•19h ago•52 comments

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

https://www.stoaexchange.com
75•erenberke•13h ago•47 comments

OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/openai-wraps-7-billion-share-sale-ahead-of-potential-ipo-.html
8•kristianp•44m ago•2 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