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Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

https://lax-skyline.parcelscope.net/
16•rustywasm•16m ago•4 comments

bzip3

https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3
273•tosh•5h ago•82 comments

AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/benchmarking-7-autonomous-businesses
68•Areibman•44m ago•64 comments

Keep Our Servers Running

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this...
858•sonicrocketman•15h ago•213 comments

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)

https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479
50•tosh•3h ago•37 comments

Simple Is Not Small

https://jyn.dev/simple-is-not-the-same-as-small/
105•zdw•3d ago•36 comments

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html
172•astroanax•9h ago•50 comments

No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/07/court-constitution-right-clean-water/916494...
70•measurablefunc•1h ago•33 comments

PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/postgres-19/index.html
39•valyala•2h ago•8 comments

Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/09/decoding-nec-v20-microcode.html
46•mariuz•3d ago•1 comments

The Dataflow Model Revisited

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/19/paper/The%20Dataflow%20Model%20Revisited
41•scott_s•1d ago•10 comments

Live map of public transport in Belgium

https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/
160•coinfused•10h ago•70 comments

Volkswagen to convert German car plant to produce Israeli defense equipment

https://www.timesofisrael.com/volkswagen-to-convert-german-car-plant-to-produce-israeli-defense-e...
15•Betelbuddy•30m ago•5 comments

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
151•treve•18h ago•541 comments

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-08-23-speculative-decoding-amd-gpus
112•ankitg12•9h ago•40 comments

Whistle Synth

https://www.jefftk.com/p/whistle-synth-mac-app
33•luu•3d ago•9 comments

De-Brainrot Vacations

https://devz.cl/posts/i-spent-my-vacations-de-brainrotting/
422•DanielVZ•6h ago•173 comments

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/07/smartphone-makers-dont-bother-to-comply-with...
232•mdp2021•7h ago•129 comments

Impedance Matching (2017)

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238
67•muti•9h ago•22 comments

Splash-free urinals (2025)

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false
191•u1hcw9nx•6h ago•106 comments

Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

265•jmpman•2d ago•146 comments

Academia as a d-index measuring contest

https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/introducing-the-k-index
9•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users

103•spwa4•2h ago•103 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
302•azhenley•19h ago•101 comments

Unified Arabic

https://worksthatwork.com/6/unified-arabic
105•spacebuffer•5d ago•41 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
344•xena•22h ago•178 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

270•imadtaieber•23h ago•249 comments

I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32

https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home-assistant-without-the-cloud
72•sabatesduran•4d ago•22 comments

Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker

https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker
183•highfrequency•3h ago•127 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
389•Cider9986•22h ago•245 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