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Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

https://ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included
135•Ryan5453•4h ago•47 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
581•nonmaskable•20h ago•215 comments

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

https://jakeasmith.com/blog/http-build-url/
47•jakeasmith•1d ago•7 comments

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
513•polyphilz•12h ago•107 comments

Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/comparison-of-arena-architecture-in-malloc.html
41•egberts1•1d ago•2 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
408•krackers•11h ago•100 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
204•afilipovski•11h ago•111 comments

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

https://www.amazon.science/blog/developing-provably-correct-rust-code-with-verus
95•Betelbuddy•2d ago•12 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
495•signa11•15h ago•217 comments

A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

https://labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve...
45•paimapi•1d ago•15 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
192•matt_d•10h ago•29 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
182•johnjwang•1d ago•71 comments

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

https://gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/
78•gumby•7h ago•38 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
128•etoxin•8h ago•51 comments

The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html
5•rramadass•3d ago•1 comments

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-...
358•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•299 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
269•soheilpro•1d ago•50 comments

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

https://harnesstax.github.io/
107•matt_d•9h ago•38 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2143•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•243 comments

PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

https://a6mzero.com/posts/this-pcb-is-brought-to-you-by-fable-5/
77•jasonpeacock•2d ago•32 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
195•jheitmann•4d ago•24 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving
172•herbertl•4d ago•72 comments

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill
18•donk8r•2h ago•4 comments

Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c60m3k28j81mo
29•marc__1•5h ago•22 comments

US interest rates raised for first time in three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4gmlyvj422o
32•higginsniggins•8h ago•4 comments

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

https://github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast
32•rahimnathwani•4h ago•2 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/
140•vinhnx•3d ago•216 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike
115•rochansinha•12h ago•16 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
197•bananaflag•17h ago•49 comments

Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/monsanto200805
65•kamaraju•5h ago•22 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